N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 2257: Registration of dealers

§ 2257. Registration of dealers. 1. For the purposes of this article,

a dealer shall be any person engaged in the business of buying, selling

or trading vessels. A person who sells three or more vessels for profit

within one calendar year shall be presumed to be a dealer if such

vessels were purchased, acquired or otherwise obtained by such person

for the purpose of resale, and were never placed in his consumer use. On

and after April first, nineteen hundred eighty-six, no person shall

engage in business as a dealer, or represent or advertise that he is

engaged, or intends to engage, in such business in this state, unless

there shall have been issued to him a certificate of registration as

provided in this section. A person shall not be required to be

registered as a dealer if he sells no vessels other than vessels

determined by regulation of the commissioner to be vessels or devices

which would not ordinarily be considered as usable for transportation on

water.

2. Application for registration. Every dealer shall file an

application for registration as a dealer with the commissioner of motor

vehicles, together with all required fees, in such form and detail and

containing such information as the commissioner shall reasonably

prescribe.

3. Issuance of certificate. If the commissioner approves the

application, he shall issue a certificate of registration in such form

as he may prescribe. For the purposes of implementing this article, the

commissioner may, in his discretion, issue such certificates of

registration and number plates on a staggered expiration basis, in which

event the fees set forth in subdivision five of this section for such

certificate shall be prorated on a monthly basis.

4. Demonstrator numbers and trailer number plates. (a) Upon payment of

the required fee, a dealer shall be entitled to receive one or more

demonstrator numbers, which may be used in lieu of a registration issued

under section twenty-two hundred fifty-one of this article for the

operation of any vessel owned or controlled by the registrant and held

for sale or demonstration. Demonstrator numbers shall be displayed in a

manner prescribed by the commissioner.

(b) Upon payment of the required fee, a dealer shall be entitled to

receive one or more number plates which may be used in lieu of any

registration issued under section four hundred one of this chapter for

the operation of any boat trailer owned or controlled by the dealer and

held for the purpose of sale or demonstration, provided such operation

is directly related to the sale or demonstration of any boat trailer or

vessel. The provisions of section four hundred two of this chapter with

respect to the care and display of number plates shall apply to number

plates issued under this subdivision.

(c) The commissioner may, in his discretion, limit the number of

demonstrator numbers or number plates which shall be issued to any

registrant. The fee for the replacement of lost, mutilated, or destroyed

demonstrator numbers or number plates shall be two dollars.

5. Fees. Every application, other than a renewal application, shall be

accompanied by an application fee of ten dollars, which shall in no

event be refunded. The triennial fee for such registration or renewal

thereof shall be seventy-five dollars. The triennial fee for

demonstrator numbers or number plates shall be sixty dollars for each

number or number plate. The application for registration, demonstrator

numbers and number plates shall be accompanied by the required fees.

There shall be no refund of any registration fee or any fee for

demonstrator numbers or number plates.

6. No dealer shall sell a vessel except in accordance with regulations

established by the commissioner. The commissioner may, in his

discretion, require a registrant to maintain a record in a prescribed

form of all vessels received or disposed of by him. Upon request of an

agent of the commissioner or of any peace officer acting pursuant to his

special duties, a registrant shall produce such records and permit said

agent or peace officer to examine them, and any vessels on the premises

subject to the record keeping requirements of this section during usual

business hours or while the registrant is conducting business. The

failure to produce such records or to permit such inspection as required

by this subdivision shall be a violation.