2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 6-D - Business of Installing Security or Fire Alarm Systems › 69-P - License Without Examination.

§  69-p.  License  without  examination. 1. Any person over the age of
eighteen years who shall present to the secretary of state  satisfactory
evidence   that  he  has  been  actually  engaged  in  the  business  of
installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire alarm  systems  in
this  state  for  at  least  two  years within the period of three years
immediately prior to October first, nineteen hundred  ninety-two,  shall
be  entitled  to  a  license  under  this  article  without examination,
provided that application therefor is accompanied by the requirements of
paragraphs (a) and (b), respectively,  of  subdivision  one  of  section
sixty-nine-o  of  this  article  and the required annual license fee, is
filed with the secretary of state.
2.  The  secretary  of  state  shall  upon  application  and   without
examination,  issue  a  license  to  any person over the age of eighteen
years who  has  been  duly  licensed  by  any  other  state,  territory,
protectorate  or  dependency  of  the  United  States  to  engage in the
business of installing, servicing or maintaining security or fire  alarm
systems  upon  compliance  with standards and requirements not lower, in
the judgment of the secretary  of  state,  than  those  of  this  state,
provided,  however,  that  such  state  extends  similar  reciprocity to
licensees of this state. Such application shall be  accompanied  by  the
requirements of paragraphs (a) and (b), respectively, of subdivision one
of section sixty-nine-o of this article and the required license fee.
3.  (a)  If  any  person,  eligible for any license, mentioned in this
section, be in the military service at or during  the  time  application
for such license is required to be filed and license fee paid, according
to  the  provisions  of  this  section,  the  period  within  which said
application may be filed and license fee may be  paid,  is  extended  in
behalf  of such person, until three months after the termination of said
military service,  any  provision  contained  in  this  article  to  the
contrary, notwithstanding.
(b) In the case of persons who are or were in the military service and
(i)  have  been  or  will  be  discharged  under  conditions  other than
dishonorable, or (ii) have a qualifying condition, as defined in section
one of the veterans' services law, and received a discharge  other  than
bad  conduct  or dishonorable from such service, or (iii) are discharged
LGBT veterans, as defined in section one of the veterans' services  law,
and  have  received  a  discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable
from such service, the period of two years specified in subdivision  one
of  this  section need not be continuous. The length of time such person
was engaged in the business  of  installing,  servicing  or  maintaining
security  or fire alarm systems before entering the military service may
be added to any period of time  during  which  such  person  was  or  is
engaged in the business of installing, servicing or maintaining security
or fire alarm systems after the termination of military service.