Simplification of business application procedures and administration

§ 224. Simplification of business application procedures and administration. 1. For the purposes of reducing the amount of paperwork required of businesses which are licensed or registered pursuant to this chapter, and to provide for the most efficient servicing of such businesses, the commissioner shall, to the extent administratively feasible, provide that: (i) applications for licenses or registrations, or renewals thereof, to be issued pursuant to sections three hundred three, three hundred ninety-eight-c, four hundred fifteen and four hundred fifteen-a of this chapter simultaneously made by the same entity shall be made on one application, (ii) all such licenses and registrations issued to the same entity shall expire at the same time, and (iii) the expiration dates for all licensees and registrants subject to such sections shall be staggered as effectively as possible over a two year period.

2. The provisions of the sections set forth in subdivision one of this section shall be construed to achieve the purposes enunciated in that subdivision.

3. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, only one original application fee shall be required of the same applicant who simultaneously makes application for the issuance of more than one license or registration pursuant to section three hundred three, three hundred ninety-eight-c, four hundred fifteen or four hundred fifteen-a of this chapter. Such fee shall be the highest application fee for any one of the licenses or registrations being applied for.