N.Y. Executive Law § 173-b: Professional solicitor

§ 173-b. Professional solicitor. 1. Registration required. No person

shall act as a professional solicitor in the employ of a professional

fund raiser required to register pursuant to section one hundred

seventy-three of this article before he or she has registered with the

attorney general or after the expiration or cancellation of such

registration or any renewal thereof. Application for registration or

re-registration shall be in writing and signed under penalties for

perjury in the form prescribed by the attorney general and shall be

accompanied by a fee in the sum of eighty dollars. Such registration or

re-registration when effected shall be for a period of one year,

expiring one year from the date of such registration or re-registration,

and may be renewed upon written application, signed under penalties for

perjury, in the form prescribed by the attorney general and the payment

of the fee prescribed herein, for additional one year periods.

Applications for registration and re-registration, when filed with the

attorney general, shall become public records in the office of the

attorney general.

2. Limitations upon professional solicitors for law enforcement

support organizations. No person or professional solicitor, in the

course of soliciting or collecting funds on behalf of any law

enforcement support organization, shall engage in any acts prohibited by

subdivision seventeen of section one hundred seventy-two-d of this

article, or by paragraph (h) of subdivision two of section one hundred

seventy-five of this article, provided, however, that no criminal

liability shall attach to any law enforcement support organization or

its officers because of the activities of any professional solicitor

employed on behalf of such organization.

3. Violations. Any person who wilfully violates the provisions of this

section is guilty of a misdemeanor.