2013 New York Consolidated Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 7 - (70 - 89-A) PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS, BAIL ENFORCEMENT AGENTS AND WATCH, GUARD AND PATROL AGENCIES
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; 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.