N.Y. General Business Law § 70-a: Bail enforcement agents and watch, guard or patrol agencies

§ 70-a. Bail enforcement agents and watch, guard or patrol agencies.

1. The department of state shall have the power to issue separate

licenses to bail enforcement agents and to watch, guard or patrol

agencies. Nothing in this article shall prevent a private investigator

licensed hereunder from performing the services of a watch, guard or

patrol agency or bail enforcement agent as defined in this article;

however, a watch, guard or patrol agency or bail enforcement agent may

not perform the services of a private investigator as defined in this

article.

2. No person, firm, company, partnership, limited liability company or

corporation shall engage in the business of bail enforcement agents or

the business of watch, guard or patrol agency, or advertise his, their

or its business to be that of bail enforcement agent or watch, guard or

patrol agency, notwithstanding the name or title used in describing such

agency or notwithstanding the fact that other functions and services may

also be performed for fee, hire or reward, without having first obtained

from the department of state a license so to do, as hereinafter

provided, for each bureau, agency, sub-agency, office and branch office

to be owned, conducted, managed or maintained by such person, firm,

company, partnership, limited liability company or corporation for the

conduct of such business.

3. Any person, firm, company, partnership or corporation who violates

any provision of this section shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.