New York Laws
Article 8-A - Process Servers and Process Serving Agencies in Cities Having a Population of One Million or More
89-EE - Responsibility of Process Serving Agency and Process Servers.

ยง 89-ee. Responsibility of process serving agency and process servers.
1. It shall be unlawful for a process server to fail to comply with all
legal requirements for the service of process.

2. A process serving agency shall be legally responsible for the acts
of each process server to whom it has distributed, assigned or delivered
process for service if it could reasonably have known that the process
server was acting improperly.

3. It shall be unlawful for a process serving agency or a process
server to fail to comply with all laws and regulations respecting
preparation, notarization and filing of affidavits of service of process
and other documents.