2020 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 7 - Private Investigators, Bail Enforcement Agents and Watch, Guard and Patrol Agencies
70-A - Bail Enforcement Agents and Watch, Guard or Patrol Agencies.

§  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
  patrol agency or bail enforcement agent  as  defined  in  this  article;
  however,  a  watch, guard or patrol agency or bail enforcement agent may
  not perform the services of a private investigator as  defined  in  this
  article.
2. No person, firm, company, partnership, limited liability company or
  corporation  shall  engage in the business of bail enforcement agents or
  the business of watch, guard or patrol agency, or advertise  his,  their
  or  its business to be that of bail enforcement agent or watch, guard or
  patrol agency, notwithstanding the name or title used in describing such
  agency or notwithstanding the fact that other functions and services may
  also be performed for fee, hire or reward, without having first obtained
  from the department  of  state  a  license  so  to  do,  as  hereinafter
  provided,  for each bureau, agency, sub-agency, office and branch office
  to be owned, conducted, managed or  maintained  by  such  person,  firm,
  company,  partnership,  limited liability company or corporation for the
  conduct of such business.
3. Any person, firm, company, partnership or corporation who  violates
  any provision of this section shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.