N.Y. EXC Law § 438
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Privilege against self-incrimination
Official statutory text
§ 438. Privilege against self-incrimination. The willful refusal to\nanswer a material question or the assertion of privilege against\nself-incrimination during a hearing upon any investigation or review\nauthorized by this article or by article fourteen-h of the general\nmunicipal law by any licensee or any person identified with any licensee\nas an officer, director, stockholder, partner, member, employee or agent\nthereof shall constitute sufficient cause for the revocation or\nsuspension of any license issued under this article or under the\nlicensing law, as the commission or as the municipal governing body may\ndetermine.\n
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