NYC Rules of the City of New York

§ 2-234 — Duty of Process Servers to Report Agencies That Assign Service.

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(a) A process server must notify the Department in a manner designated on its website of the name and license number of the process serving agency for whom he or she serves process exclusively as an employee when applying for a license or renewal thereof. (b) A process server must notify the Department in a manner desi

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Effective: 10/23/2022Last amended: 10/23/2022

§ 2-234b Duty of Process Servers to Report Agencies That Assign Service.

RCNY § 2-234

(a)A process server must notify the Department in a manner designated on its website of the name and license number of the process serving agency for whom he or she serves process exclusively as an employee when applying for a license or renewal thereof.

(b)A process server must notify the Department in a manner designated on its website of when he or she ceases to exclusively serve process as an employee of a process serving agency within five (5) days that he or she ceases such employment. The process server must include the name and license number of any other process serving agency that he serves process exclusively as an employee.

(c)When applying for a license or renewal thereof, a process server must notify the Department in a manner designated on its website of the name and license number of every process serving agency which he or she has reason to believe assigns process for service to the applicant.

(d)A process server applying for a renewal of a licensee must notify the Department in a manner designated on its website of the name and license number of every process serving agency from which it has accepted assignment of service of process within the previous two years.

(e)A process server must keep a list of the name and address of each process serving agency that assigns service to the process server. The process server must maintain the list for seven years and produce it upon request by the Department. (Amended City Record 9/23/2022, eff. 10/23/2022)

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