* § 514. Industrial hemp workgroup. The commissioner shall appoint a New York state industrial hemp workgroup, composed of researchers, producers, processors and manufacturers, serving two-year terms, to make recommendations concerning research topics for the industrial hemp research pilot program, state and federal policies and policy initiatives, and opportunities for the promotion and marketing of industrial hemp as consistent with federal and state laws, rules and regulations, which workgroup shall continue for such time as the commissioner deems appropriate. * NB Effective until March 8, 2020 * § 514. Aids to enforcement. 1. The commissioner shall have full access to all premises, buildings, factories, farms, vehicles, cars, boats, airplanes, vessels, containers, packages, barrels, boxes, and/or cans for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this article. The commissioner may, at such locations, examine industrial hemp and hemp products and may open any package and/or container reasonably believed to contain industrial hemp or hemp products, to determine whether such industrial hemp or hemp products follow applicable law or regulation.

1. 2. A search warrant shall be issued by any court to which application is made therefor, whenever it shall be made to appear to such court that a licensee has: refused to permit any industrial hemp to be inspected or samples taken therefrom; refused to permit access to any premises, or place where licensed activities are conducted; and/or refused or prevented access thereto by any inspector of the department and that such inspector has reasonable grounds to believe that such person has any industrial hemp in his or her possession, or under his or her control and/or is in violation of the provisions or regulations of this article. In such a case, a warrant shall be issued in the name of the people, directed to a police officer, commanding him or her to: (a) search any place of business, factory, building, premises, or farm where licensed activities have occurred and any vehicle, boat, vessel, container, package, barrel, box, tub or can, containing, or believed to contain industrial hemp in the possession or under the control of any person who shall refuse to allow access to such hemp for inspection or sampling, (b) permit the inspection and sampling of any industrial hemp found in the execution of the warrant, as the officer applying for the search warrant shall designate when the same is found, by an inspector or a department official authorized by the commissioner or by this chapter, and/or (c) permit access to any place where access is refused or prevented, and to allow and enable a department inspector or other department official to conduct an inspection of the place. The provisions of article six hundred ninety of the criminal procedure law shall apply to such warrant as far as applicable thereto. The officer to whom the warrant is delivered shall make a return in writing of his or her proceedings thereunto to the court which issued the same.
2. 3. The commissioner may quarantine industrial hemp when he or she has reason to believe that such commodity does not meet the definition thereof, set forth in subdivision one of section five hundred five of this article, or is otherwise in violation of or does not meet a standard set forth in, applicable law or regulation. The quarantine may by the issuance of an order directing the owner or custodian of industrial hemp not to distribute, dispose of, or move that commodity without the written permission of the commissioner. The commissioner may also quarantine a product by placing a tag or other appropriate marking thereon or adjacent thereto that provides and requires that such product must not be distributed, disposed of, or moved without his or her written permission, or may quarantine a product by otherwise informing the owner or custodian thereof that such condition must be complied with.
3. 4. The commissioner may seize industrial hemp by taking physical possession of industrial hemp when he or she has substantial evidence to believe that such commodity does not meet the definition thereof, set forth in subdivision one of section five hundred five of this article, or is otherwise in violation of, or does not meet a standard set forth in, applicable law or regulation.
4. 5. Subsequent to quarantining or seizing industrial hemp, as authorized in subdivisions three and four of this section, the commissioner shall promptly give the owner or custodian thereof an opportunity to be heard to show cause why such industrial hemp should not be ordered destroyed. The commissioner shall, thereafter, consider all the relevant evidence and information presented and shall make a determination whether such industrial hemp should be ordered to be destroyed; that determination may be reviewed as provided for in article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules. * NB Effective March 8, 2020