N.Y. General Business Law § 83: Application of article

§ 83. Application of article. Nothing in this article shall apply to

any detective or officer belonging to the police force of the state, or

any county, city, town or village thereof, appointed or elected by due

authority of law, or to any person in the employ of any police force or

police department of the state, or of any county, city, town or village

thereof while engaged in the performance of their official duties; nor

to any person, firm, limited liability company, partnership,

corporation, or any bureau or agency, whose business is exclusively the

furnishing of information as to the business and financial standing, and

credit responsibility of persons, firms, or corporations, or as to the

personal habits and financial responsibility of applicants for

insurance, indemnity bonds or commercial credit or of claimants under

insurance policies, nor to any person licensed as a certified public

accountant while engaged in the practice of public accountancy as

defined in article one hundred forty-nine of the education law or any

firm, limited liability company, partnership or corporation registered

as a certified public accounting firm by the commissioner of education

while performing services regulated under article one hundred forty-nine

of the education law or Part 70 of the regulations of the commissioner

of education; and whose business does not embrace other activities

described in section seventy-one of this article; or whose business is

licensed by the commissioner of labor under the provisions of section

twenty-four-a or subdivision three-b of section fifty of the workers'

compensation law or whose business is representing employers or groups

of employers insured under the workers' compensation law in the state

insurance fund; nor to any corporation duly authorized by the state to

operate a central burglar or fire alarm protection business; nor to any

person while engaged in the business of adjuster for an insurance

company nor to any public adjuster licensed by the superintendent of

financial services under the insurance law nor to any person regularly

employed as special agent, detective or investigator exclusively by one

employer in connection with the affairs of that employer only nor to any

charitable or philanthropic society or association duly incorporated

under the laws of the state and which is organized and maintained for

the public good and not for private profit, nor shall anything in this

article contained be construed to affect in any way attorneys or

counselors at law in the regular practice of their profession, but such

exemption shall not enure to the benefit of any employee or

representative of such attorney or counselor at law who is not employed

solely, exclusively and regularly by such attorney or counselor at law.

No person, firm, limited liability company, partnership, corporation or

any bureau or agency exempted hereunder from the application of this

article shall perform any manner of private investigator, bail

enforcement agent or watch, guard or patrol agency service as described

in section seventy-one of this article, for any other person, firm,

limited liability company, partnership, corporation, bureau or agency

whether for fee, hire, reward, other compensation, remuneration, or

consideration or as an accommodation without fee, reward or remuneration

or by a reciprocal arrangement whereby such services are exchanged on

request of parties thereto. The commission of a single act prohibited by

this article shall constitute a violation thereof.

Nothing in this article shall be construed to affect or prohibit the

right of any person to form or become affiliated with or to continue as

a member of any union, association, society or organization of his own

choosing.