§ 70. Private investigator license. 1. The department of state shall have the power to issue licenses to private investigators. 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 herein; however, a watch, guard or patrol […]
§ 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 […]
§ 71. Definitions. 1. “Private investigator” shall mean and include the business of private investigator and shall also mean and include, separately or collectively, the making for hire, reward or for any consideration whatsoever, of any investigation, or investigations for the purpose of obtaining information with reference to any of the following matters, notwithstanding the […]
§ 72. Application for licenses. Any person, firm, partnership, limited liability company or corporation intending to conduct the business of private investigator, business of bail enforcement agent or the business of watch, guard or patrol agency, and any person, firm, partnership, limited liability company or corporation intending to conduct the business of furnishing or supplying […]
§ 73. Enforcement of article; investigations. 1. The secretary of state shall have the power to enforce the provisions of this article and article seven-A of this chapter and upon complaint of any person, or on his own initiative, to investigate any violation thereof or to investigate the business, business practices and business methods of […]
§ 74. Issuance of licenses; fee; bonds. 1. (a) The application shall be accompanied by a non-refundable fee, payable to the department of state for the use of the state, for each certificate of license, as hereinbelow enumerated, issued to the applicant, if the applicant be an individual, of four hundred dollars for a license […]
§ 74-a. Notification. Prior to taking or attempting to take into custody a person, a bail enforcement agent shall notify a local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the area in which the person is believed to be located of such bail enforcement agent’s intentions. The notification shall be provided on a form prescribed by […]
§ 75. Posting and surrender of license certificate. Immediately upon the receipt of the license certificate issued by the department of state pursuant to this article, the licensee named therein shall cause such license certificate to be posted up and at all times displayed in a conspicuous place in the bureau, agency, sub-agency, office or […]
§ 76. Certificate or pocket card lost or destroyed. If it shall be established to the satisfaction of the secretary of state, in accordance with rules and regulations of such department, that an unexpired license certificate or pocket card, issued in accordance with the provisions of this article, has been lost or destroyed without fault […]
§ 77. Removal of bureau, agency or office. If the holder of an unexpired license certificate issued pursuant to this article shall remove the bureau, agency, sub-agency, office or branch office to a place other than that described in the license certificate, he shall, within the twenty-four hours immediately following such removal, give written notice […]
§ 78. Renewal of licenses. A license granted under the provisions of this article may be renewed by the department of state upon application therefor by the holder thereof, in such form as such department may prescribe, accompanied by the non-refundable fee and surety bond each in amounts equivalent to those specified in section seventy-four […]
§ 78-a. Surrender of licenses. A license issued pursuant to this article may not be surrendered nor may any licensee resign as such licensee without the written approval of the secretary of state or any deputy authorized to act for him.
§ 79. Hearings, notice, determinations, review. 1. The department of state shall have the power to revoke or suspend any license, or in lieu thereof to impose a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars payable to the department of state, or reprimand any licensee or deny an application for a license or renewal thereof upon […]
§ 80. License certificates, pocket cards or badges. Upon the issuing of a license as hereinbefore provided the department of state shall issue to each person, partner, member of a limited liability company or officer of a corporation making and filing a statement required by section seventy-two of this article a pocket card of such […]
§ 81. Employees. 1. The holder of any license certificate issued pursuant to this article may employ to assist him in his work of private detective or investigator or bail enforcement agent as described in section seventy-one of this article and in the conduct of such business as many persons as he may deem necessary, […]
§ 82. Employees not to divulge information or make false reports. Any person who is or has been an employee of a holder of a license shall not divulge to any one other than his employer, or as his employer shall direct, except as he may be required by law, any information acquired by him […]
§ 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 […]
§ 84. Unlawful acts. 1. It is unlawful for the holder of a license, issued under this article, or for any employee of such licensee, knowingly to commit any of the following acts within or without the state of New York: to incite, encourage, or aid in the incitement or encouragement of any person or […]
§ 85. Prosecution. Criminal action for violation of this article shall be prosecuted by the attorney general, his or her deputy, or a district attorney, in the name of the people of the state. In any such prosecution the attorney general, or his or her deputy, shall exercise all the powers and perform all duties […]
§ 86. Reward may be presumed. In any prosecution under this article any person, firm, limited liability company, partnership or corporation who performs or commits any of the acts set forth in sections seventy and seventy-one of this article shall be presumed to do so for a fee, compensation, valuable consideration or reward.
