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2022 New York Laws
RPP - Real Property
Article 12-A - Real Estate Brokers and Real Estate Salespersons
440-A - License Required for Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons.

Universal Citation: NY Real Prop L § 440-A (2022)
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§ 440-a. License required for real estate brokers and salespersons. No
  person,  co-partnership,  limited liability company or corporation shall
  engage in or follow the business or occupation of, or hold themselves or
  itself out or act temporarily or otherwise as a real  estate  broker  or
  real  estate salesperson in this state without first procuring a license
  therefor as provided in this article. No person shall be entitled  to  a
  license  as  a  real  estate  broker  under  this  article, either as an
  individual or as a member of a co-partnership, or as a member or manager
  of a limited liability company or as an officer of a corporation, unless
  they are twenty years of age or over. No person shall be entitled  to  a
  license  as a real estate salesperson under this article unless they are
  over the age of eighteen years. No person shall be entitled to a license
  as a real estate broker or real estate salesperson  under  this  article
  who has been convicted in this state or elsewhere of a crime, unless the
  secretary  makes  a finding in conformance with all applicable statutory
  requirements, including those contained in article twenty-three-A of the
  correction law, that  such  convictions  do  not  constitute  a  bar  to
  licensure.  No  person  shall  be entitled to a license as a real estate
  broker or real estate salesperson under this article who does  not  meet
  the requirements of section 3-503 of the general obligations law.

Notwithstanding  anything  to  the  contrary  in  this section, tenant
  associations and not-for-profit corporations authorized  in  writing  by
  the  commissioner of the department of the city of New York charged with
  enforcement of the housing maintenance  code  of  such  city  to  manage
  residential  property  owned  by  such  city  or appointed by a court of
  competent jurisdiction to manage residential property owned by such city
  shall be exempt from the  licensing  provisions  of  this  section  with
  respect to the properties so managed.

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