Section 852. Power of municipality to revoke license or permit

1. A county,
  town,  city  or village which issues a license or permit authorizing any
  person, firm or corporation to engage in the  selling  or  offering  for
  sale  of  any  merchandise  may  revoke  such  license  or permit upon a
  finding, pursuant to a hearing held thereon, that such person,  firm  or
  corporation  has  sold  or  offered for sale merchandise in violation of
  this article.
    2. The possession  with  intent  to  sell  or  offering  for  sale  of
  drug-related  paraphernalia as defined herein is hereby declared to be a
  nuisance, and where any such drug-related paraphernalia shall  be  taken
  from  the  possession  of  any person, the same shall be surrendered and
  forfeited to the sheriff of the county wherein the same shall be  taken,
  except  that  in  a city having a population of seventy-five thousand or
  more, the  same  shall  be  surrendered  and  forfeited  to  the  police
  commissioner  or  other  head  of the police force or department of said
  city and except that in the counties of Nassau  and  Suffolk,  the  same
  shall  be  surrendered  and  forfeited to the commissioner of the county
  police department.