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32:23-21.  Qualifications for license;  persons convicted of certain crimes  ineligible
    No such license shall be granted

    (a) If any person whose signature or name appears in the application is not  the real party in interest required by section 2 of this article to sign or to  be identified in the application or if the person so signing or named in the  application is an undisclosed agent or trustee for any such real party in  interest;

    (b) Unless the commission shall be satisfied that the applicant and all members, officers and stockholders required by section 2 of this article to sign or be identified in the application for license possess good character and  integrity;

    (c) Unless the applicant is either a natural person, partnership or corporation;

    (d) Unless the applicant shall be a party to a contract then in force or which will take effect upon the issuance of a license, with a carrier of freight by water for the loading and unloading by the applicant of one or more vessels of such carrier at a pier within the port of New York district;

    (e) If the applicant or any member, officer or stockholder required by section 2 of this article to sign or be identified in the application for license has, without subsequent pardon, been convicted by a court of the United  States or any State or territory thereof of the commission of, or the attempt  or conspiracy to commit, treason, murder, manslaughter or any felony or high  misdemeanor or any of the misdemeanors or offenses described in subdivision (b)  of section 3 of Article V.  Any applicant ineligible for a license by reason of  any such conviction may submit satisfactory evidence to the commission that the  person whose conviction was the basis of ineligibility has for a period of not  less than five years, measured as hereinafter provided and up to the time of  application, so conducted himself as to warrant the grant of such license, in  which event the commission may, in its discretion issue an order removing such ineligibility.  The aforesaid period of five years shall be measured either from the date of payment of any fine imposed upon such person or the suspension  of sentence or from the date of his unrevoked release from custody by parole,  commutation or termination of his sentence;

    (f) If, on or after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-three, the applicant  has paid, given, caused to have been paid or given or offered to pay or give to  any officer or employee of any carrier of freight by water any valuable  consideration for an improper or unlawful purpose or to induce such person to  procure the employment of the applicant by such carrier for the performance of  stevedoring services;

    (g) If, on or after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-three, the applicant  has paid, given, caused to be paid or given or offered to pay or give to any  officer or representative of a labor organization any valuable consideration  for an improper or unlawful purpose or to induce such officer or representative  to subordinate the interests of such labor organization or its members in the  management of the affairs of such labor organization to the interests of the  applicant.

     L.1953, c. 202, p. 1524, Part I, s. 1, Art. VI, par. 3.