N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 403-a: Temporary indicia of registration

§ 403-a. Temporary indicia of registration. The commissioner may

promulgate regulations to provide for temporary indicia of registration

which shall permit a person to operate or park a motor vehicle or

trailer on the public highways of this state without number plates

issued by the commissioner or validating stickers for a period not to

exceed fifteen days when the number plate or plates or validating

sticker for such motor vehicle or trailer has been lost, stolen,

mutilated or destroyed. Such regulations may provide for the charging of

a fee of not more than three dollars for any issuance of temporary

indicia of registration. Any person who operates or parks a motor

vehicle or trailer on the public highways of this state, which motor

vehicle or trailer is in fact validly registered pursuant to the

provisions of section four hundred one or four hundred ten of this

chapter, without a number plate or plates or validating sticker, and who

has complied with any such regulations promulgated by the commissioner

under this section shall not be deemed to be operating or parking a

motor vehicle or trailer in violation of subdivision one or three of

section four hundred two or section four hundred three of this chapter.

Falsifying any temporary indicia of registration prescribed by any

regulation of the commissioner issued pursuant to this section shall be

a traffic infraction.