New York Laws
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.