2019 New York Laws
SAP - State Administrative Procedure Act
Article 4 - Licenses
402 - Electronic Filing of Applications for Certain Business Permits.

§ 402. Electronic filing of applications for certain business permits.
  1.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a state agency
  may, by  promulgation  of  regulations,  permit  an  application  for  a
  business  permit  or  other  license  subject  to the provisions of this
  section to be filed with such agency, subscribed  and  affirmed  by  the
  applicant  as  true  under  penalty  of  perjury where statute otherwise
  requires that such signature be acknowledged, verified  or  sworn  under
  oath.
2.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  law  to the contrary, a state
  agency may, by promulgation of regulations, permit any application for a
  business permit or other license  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this
  section  to  be  submitted  to such agency by electronic means, provided
  that any signature required  thereon  shall  meet  the  requirements  of
  subdivision  three  of section three hundred two of the state technology
  law, and the use of electronic records shall meet  the  requirements  of
  subdivision  one  of  section three hundred five of the state technology
  law.
3.  This  section  shall  apply  to  applications  for  the  issuance,
  modification  or  renewal of any permit, license, certificate, approval,
  registration, charter,  or  similar  form  of  permission  or  authority
  required by law, or by state agency rules having the force and effect of
  law,  which  is required for a business undertaking, project or activity
  for an applicant, but shall not include bonds or other forms of security
  required to be submitted by  applicants,  any  individual  licenses  for
  practicing  a profession prescribed in title eight of the education law,
  filings under the uniform  commercial  code,  or  routine  licenses  and
  permits  for  individual  privileges, including licenses for operating a
  motor vehicle.