2015 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 11 - (General Business) EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES.
178 - Action on bond.

  178.  Action  on  bond.  All  claims  or suits brought in any court
  against any licensed person may be brought in the  name  of  the  person
  damaged  upon  the bond deposited by such licensed person as provided in
  section one hundred seventy-seven and may be transferred and assigned as
  other claims for damages in civil suits. The amount of  damages  claimed
  by plaintiff, and not the penalty named in the bond, shall determine the
  jurisdiction   of  the  court  in  which  the  action  is  brought.  The
  commissioner may institute a suit against the  bond  on  behalf  of  any
  person  damaged.  Where such licensed person has departed from the state
  with intent to defraud his creditors  or  to  avoid  the  service  of  a
  summons  in  an action brought under this section, service shall be made
  upon the surety in the manner provided for service of a summons. A  copy
  of such summons shall be mailed to the last known post office address of
  the  residence  of  the licensed person and the place where he conducted
  such employment agency, as shown by the records of the commissioner.