N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 9 § 5014.10
Prior to placing a request for courier services through a network, a courier customer shall establish an account with the licensee operating such network.
A courier service shall establish controls to ensure that no courier customer is able to establish more than one courier customer account with such courier service. Each such account shall be non-transferable and unique to the courier customer who established the account.
A courier customer account may be funded through the use of a courier customer's credit or debit card; promotional or other credit issued by the licensee, or such other method as the commission may approve.
Each courier service shall establish and maintain a trust account or trust accounts in national or State chartered banking institutions with balances sufficient to pay all money deposited by or on behalf of courier customers for the purchase of tickets, including all courier customer prizes. All prizes collected on behalf of courier customers shall be placed promptly in such trust account or accounts. Monies may be withdrawn from such trust account or accounts for no purpose other than to transfer a courier customer's funds to such courier customer, purchase courier services through the network as requested by such courier customer or as otherwise may be provided by the Abandoned Property Law. A courier service shall make available within five business days funds a courier customer requests to withdraw from such courier customer's account. A courier service shall make available to the commission any documents the commission requests in order to monitor compliance with this section.
No courier service may sell or provide to another person or entity courier customer information or data on purchasers of courier services.
Each courier service shall remit all funds in abandoned customer accounts of courier customers as may be required by Abandoned Property Law section 1315. U nclaimed and abandoned prize money is governed by Tax Law section 1614.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 9 § 5014.10