2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 12-A - Real Estate Brokers and Real Estate Salespersons › 442 - Splitting Commissions.

§  442.  Splitting commissions. 1. No real estate broker shall pay any
  part of a fee, commission or other compensation received by  the  broker
  to  any  person  for  any  service, help or aid rendered in any place in
  which this article is applicable,  by  such  person  to  the  broker  in
  buying, selling, exchanging, leasing, renting or negotiating a loan upon
  any  real  estate  including  the resale of a condominium or cooperative
  apartment  unless  such  a  person  be  a  duly  licensed  real   estate
  salesperson  regularly  associated  with  such broker or a duly licensed
  real estate broker or a person regularly  engaged  in  the  real  estate
  brokerage  business  in  a state outside of New York; provided, however,
  that notwithstanding any other provision of this section,  it  shall  be
  permissible  for  a  real  estate  broker  to  pay  any  part  of a fee,
  commission, or other compensation received to an unlicensed  corporation
  or  an  unlicensed limited liability company if each of its shareholders
  or members, respectively, is associated as an individual with the broker
  as a duly licensed associate broker or salesperson.
2. Furthermore, notwithstanding any other provision of law,  it  shall
  be  permissible  for  a  broker  properly  registered  pursuant  to  the
  provisions of article twenty-three-A of the  general  business  law  who
  earns  a  commission on the original sale of a cooperative or homeowners
  association interest in real estate, including condominium units to  pay
  any  part  of  a  fee,  commission  or  other  compensation received for
  bringing about such sale to a person whose principal business is not the
  sale or offering of cooperatives or homeowners association interests  in
  real  property,  including  condominium  units  in this state but who is
  either: (i) a real estate salesperson duly licensed under  this  article
  who  is  regularly  associated  with  such  broker;  (ii)  a broker duly
  licensed under this article; or a person regularly engaged in  the  real
  estate brokerage business in a state outside of New York.
Except  when  permitted  pursuant  to the foregoing provisions of this
  section no real estate broker shall pay or agree to pay any  part  of  a
  fee,  commission,  or other compensation received by the broker, or due,
  or to become due to the broker to any person, firm or corporation who or
  which is or is to be a party to  the  transaction  in  which  such  fee,
  commission  or  other compensation shall be or become due to the broker;
  provided, however, that nothing in this section shall  prohibit  a  real
  estate  broker  from  offering  any  part of a fee, commission, or other
  compensation received by the broker to the seller,  buyer,  landlord  or
  tenant   who   is  buying,  selling,  exchanging,  leasing,  renting  or
  negotiating a loan upon any  real  estate  including  the  resale  of  a
  condominium  or  cooperative  apartment.  Such fee, commission, or other
  compensation must not be made to the seller, buyer, landlord  or  tenant
  for performing any activity requiring a license under this article.