2006 New York Code - Definitions.

 
    § 89-bb. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:
    1.  A  "process server" is a person, other than an attorney or a party
  to an action acting on his own behalf, who: (a) derives income from  the
  service  of  papers in an action; or (b) has effected service of process
  in five or more actions  or  proceedings  in  the  twelve  month  period
  immediately  preceding  the  service  in  question.  A person who serves
  interlocutory papers upon an attorney or who serves papers on behalf  of
  a  federal,  state  or  local  governmental  agency in the course of his
  employment by such agency shall not be deemed a  process  server  within
  the meaning of this article by virtue of such service.
    2.  A  "process  serving  agency"  is  any  person, firm, partnership,
  association or corporation, other than an attorney or a law firm located
  in this state, who,  as  owner,  manager  or  contractor,  maintains  an
  office,  bureau  or  agency for the purpose of assigning or distributing
  process to individual process servers for actual service.