2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 7 - Private Investigators, Bail Enforcement Agents and Watch, Guard and Patrol Agencies › 83 - Application of Article.

§  83.  Application of article. Nothing in this article shall apply to
  any detective or officer belonging to the police force of the state,  or
  any  county,  city, town or village thereof, appointed or elected by due
  authority of law, or to any person in the employ of any police force  or
  police  department of the state, or of any county, city, town or village
  thereof while engaged in the performance of their official  duties;  nor
  to   any   person,   firm,   limited   liability  company,  partnership,
  corporation, or any bureau or agency, whose business is exclusively  the
  furnishing of information as to the business and financial standing, and
  credit  responsibility  of persons, firms, or corporations, or as to the
  personal  habits  and  financial  responsibility   of   applicants   for
  insurance,  indemnity  bonds  or commercial credit or of claimants under
  insurance policies, nor to any person licensed  as  a  certified  public
  accountant  while  engaged  in  the  practice  of  public accountancy as
  defined in article one hundred forty-nine of the education  law  or  any
  firm,  limited  liability company, partnership or corporation registered
  as a certified public accounting firm by the commissioner  of  education
  while performing services regulated under article one hundred forty-nine
  of  the  education law or Part 70 of the regulations of the commissioner
  of education; and whose  business  does  not  embrace  other  activities
  described  in  section seventy-one of this article; or whose business is
  licensed by the commissioner of labor under the  provisions  of  section
  twenty-four-a  or  subdivision  three-b of section fifty of the workers'
  compensation law or whose business is representing employers  or  groups
  of  employers  insured  under the workers' compensation law in the state
  insurance fund; nor to any corporation duly authorized by the  state  to
  operate  a central burglar or fire alarm protection business; nor to any
  person while engaged in  the  business  of  adjuster  for  an  insurance
  company  nor  to  any  public adjuster licensed by the superintendent of
  financial services under the insurance law nor to any  person  regularly
  employed  as special agent, detective or investigator exclusively by one
  employer in connection with the affairs of that employer only nor to any
  charitable or philanthropic society  or  association  duly  incorporated
  under  the  laws  of the state and which is organized and maintained for
  the public good and not for private profit, nor shall anything  in  this
  article  contained  be  construed  to  affect  in  any  way attorneys or
  counselors at law in the regular practice of their profession, but  such
  exemption   shall   not   enure  to  the  benefit  of  any  employee  or
  representative of such attorney or counselor at law who is not  employed
  solely,  exclusively and regularly by such attorney or counselor at law.
  No person, firm, limited liability company, partnership, corporation  or
  any  bureau  or  agency  exempted hereunder from the application of this
  article  shall  perform  any  manner  of  private   investigator,   bail
  enforcement  agent or watch, guard or patrol agency service as described
  in section seventy-one of this article,  for  any  other  person,  firm,
  limited  liability  company,  partnership, corporation, bureau or agency
  whether for fee, hire,  reward,  other  compensation,  remuneration,  or
  consideration or as an accommodation without fee, reward or remuneration
  or  by  a  reciprocal arrangement whereby such services are exchanged on
  request of parties thereto. The commission of a single act prohibited by
  this article shall constitute a violation thereof.
Nothing in this article shall be construed to affect or  prohibit  the
  right  of any person to form or become affiliated with or to continue as
  a member of any union, association, society or organization of  his  own
  choosing.