N.Y. Insurance Law § 2113
(d) Except as provided in subsection (f) of this section, no person or entity who acts as an agent, representative, attorney, or employee of the owner, lessee, or mortgagee, or of the prospective owner, lessee, or mortgagee of the real property or any interest therein and who or whose spouse also is a member, employee, or director of a title insurance agent, owns any interest in a title insurance agent, or is a subsidiary or affiliate of any title insurance agent, shall refer an applicant for insurance to such agent, and no such title insurance agent shall accept any such referral of title insurance business, unless the referral is made in accordance with section six thousand four hundred nine of this chapter and such person or entity, at the time of making a referral, provides, at a minimum, the following written disclosure to the applicant: