§ 438. Privilege against self-incrimination. The willful refusal to
answer a material question or the assertion of privilege against
self-incrimination during a hearing upon any investigation or review
authorized by this article or by article fourteen-h of the general
municipal law by any licensee or any person identified with any licensee
as an officer, director, stockholder, partner, member, employee or agent
thereof shall constitute sufficient cause for the revocation or
suspension of any license issued under this article or under the
licensing law, as the commission or as the municipal governing body may
determine.