2348 - Denial, suspension or revocation of license.
§ 2348. Denial, suspension or revocation of license. The department may, after due notice and an opportunity for a hearing, deny, suspend, revoke or modify a license issued under this subchapter if the department finds that the applicant or licensee has violated any provision of this chapter or its related regulations or finds the existence of any of the following: (1) the applicant or licensee has violated the laws of the United States or this Commonwealth or official regulations governing the interstate or intrastate movement, shipment or transportation of animals; (2) the applicant or licensee has made false or misleading statements or has fraudulently misrepresented the health or physical condition of domestic animals with regard to official tests or quantity of domestic animals or in the buying or receiving of domestic animals or in the receiving, selling, exchanging or shipping of domestic animals, including soliciting or negotiating the sale, resale, exchange or shipment of domestic animals; (3) the applicant or licensee has engaged in a continued course of dealings of such a nature as to satisfy the department of the inability or unwillingness of the applicant or licensee to properly conduct the business of a dealer, hauler or agent in accordance with the requirements of this chapter; (4) the applicant or licensee has failed to practice measures of sanitation prescribed by the department for premises or conveyances used for the confining, stabling, yarding, housing, holding or transporting of domestic animals; or (5) the applicant or licensee has failed to keep records required by the department or by law or has refused to allow inspections or to produce books, accounts or records of transactions in the carrying on of the business for which such license is requested or granted.