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§ 499d. Issuance of license
(a) Authority to do business; termination; renewal
(b) Refusal of license; grounds
The Secretary shall refuse to issue a license to an applicant if he finds that the applicant, or any person responsibly connected with the applicant, is prohibited from employment with a licensee under section 499h(b) of this title or is a person who, or is or was responsibly connected with a person who—
(A) has had his license revoked under the provisions of section 499h of this title within two years prior to the date of the application or whose license is currently under suspension;
(B) within two years prior to the date of application has been found after notice and opportunity for hearing to have committed any flagrant or repeated violation of section 499b of this title, but this provision shall not apply to any case in which the license of the person found to have committed such violation was suspended and the suspension period has expired or is not in effect;
(C) within two years prior to the date of the application, has been found guilty in a Federal court of having violated the provisions of sections 491, 493 to 497 of this title, relating to the prevention of destruction and dumping of farm produce; or
(D) has failed, except in the case of bankruptcy and subject to his right of appeal under section 499g(c) of this title, to pay any reparation order issued against him within two years prior to the date of the application.
(c) Issuance of license upon furnishing bond; issuance after three years without bond; effect of termination of bond; increase or decrease in amount; payment of increase
(d) Withholding license pending investigation
(e) Refusal of license
(June 10, 1930, ch. 436, § 4, 46 Stat. 533; Apr. 13, 1934, ch. 120, §§ 4–7, 48 Stat. 585, 586; June 19, 1936, ch. 602, § 2, 49 Stat. 1533; Aug. 20, 1937, ch. 719, § 6, 50 Stat. 726; June 15, 1950, ch. 254, § 2, 64 Stat. 218; July 30, 1956, ch. 786, §§ 2(b), 3, 4, 70 Stat. 726; Pub. L. 87–725, §§ 5–7, Oct. 1, 1962, 76 Stat. 674; Pub. L. 95–598, title III, § 303, Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2673; Pub. L. 102–237, title X, § 1011(2), Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1898; Pub. L. 104–48, §§ 4(c), 5(b), 12(c), Nov. 15, 1995, 109 Stat. 427, 431.)