§ 72. Application for licenses. Any person, firm, partnership, limited\nliability company or corporation intending to conduct the business of\nprivate investigator, business of bail enforcement agent or the business\nof watch, guard or patrol agency, and any person, firm, partnership,\nlimited liability company or corporation intending to conduct the\nbusiness of furnishing or supplying information as to the personal\ncharacter of any person or firm, or as to the character or kind of the\nbusiness and occupation of any person, firm or corporation, society or\nassociation or any person or group of persons, or intending to own,\nconduct, manage or maintain a bureau or agency for the above mentioned\npurposes, or while engaged in other lawful business activities also\nintending to engage in any one or more of the activities set forth in\nsection seventy-one of this article except exclusively as to the\nfinancial rating, standing, and credit responsibility of persons, firms,\ncompanies or corporations or as to personal habits and financial\nresponsibility of applicants for insurance indemnity bonds or commercial\ncredit or of claimants under insurance policies shall, for each such\nbureau or agency and for each and every sub-agency, office and branch\noffice to be owned, conducted, managed or maintained by such person,\nfirm, partnership, limited liability company or corporation for the\nconduct of such business, file in the office of the department of state\na written application, on forms provided by the department containing\nsuch information and documentation, including fingerprints, as the\nsecretary of state may require by rule and regulation.\n 1. If the applicant is a person, the application shall be subscribed\nby such person, and if the applicant is a firm or partnership the\napplication shall be subscribed by each individual composing or\nintending to compose such firm or partnership. The application shall\nstate the full name, age, residences within the past three years,\npresent and previous occupations of each person or individual so signing\nthe same, and shall also specify the name of the city, town or village,\nstating the street and number, if the premises have a street and number,\nand otherwise such apt description as will reasonably indicate the\nlocation thereof, where is to be located the principal place of business\nand the bureau, agency, sub-agency, office or branch office for which\nthe license is desired, and such further facts as may be required by the\ndepartment of state to show the good character, competency and integrity\nof each person or individual so signing such application. Each person or\nindividual signing such application shall, together with such\napplication, submit to the department of state, his photograph, taken\nwithin six months prior thereto in duplicate, in passport size and also\ntwo sets of fingerprints of his two hands recorded in such manner as may\nbe specified by the secretary of state or the secretary of state's\nauthorized representative. Before approving such application it shall be\nthe duty of the secretary of state or the secretary of state's\nauthorized representative to forward one copy of such fingerprints to\nthe division of criminal justice services. Upon receipt of such\nfingerprints, such division shall forward to the secretary of state a\nreport with respect to the applicant's previous criminal history, if\nany, or a statement that the applicant has no previous criminal history\naccording to its files. If additional copies of fingerprints are\nrequired the applicant shall furnish them upon request. Such\nfingerprints may be submitted to the federal bureau of investigation for\na national criminal history record check. The secretary shall reveal the\nname of the applicant to the chief of police and the district attorney\nof the applicant's residence and of the proposed place of business and\nshall request of them a report concerning the applicant's character in\
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