N.Y. General Business Law Section 89-T
Definitions

For this article, a process server is a person other than an attorney or a party to an action acting on his own behalf who:

(a)

derives income from the service of papers in an action; or

(b)

has effected service of process in five or more actions or proceedings in the twelve month period immediately preceding the service in question. A person who serves interlocutory papers upon an attorney or who serves papers on behalf of a federal, state or local governmental agency in the course of his employment by such agency shall not be deemed a process server within the meaning of this article by virtue of such service.

Source: Section 89-T — Definitions, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/GBS/89-T (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Feb. 14, 2026).

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