N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 410: Registration of motorcycles; fees; renewals

§ 410. Registration of motorcycles; fees; renewals. 1. Registration by

owners. No motorcycles shall be operated or driven upon the public

highways of this state without first being registered in accordance with

the provisions of this article, except as otherwise expressly provided

in this chapter.

Every owner of a motorcycle which shall be operated or driven upon the

public highways of this state shall, except as otherwise expressly

provided, cause to be filed, by mail or otherwise, in the office or a

branch office of the commissioner, or with an agent of the commissioner,

constituted as provided in this chapter, an application for

registration, addressed to the commissioner, and on a blank to be

prepared under the direction of and furnished by the commissioner for

that purpose, containing: (a) A brief description of the motorcycle to

be registered, including the name of the manufacturer and factory number

of such vehicle; (b) the name, residence, including county and business

address of the owner of such motorcycle.

2. Registration record. Upon the receipt of a sufficient application

for registration, as provided in this article, the commissioner or agent

receiving it shall register such motorcycle, and maintain a record of

the registration of such motorcycle under the distinctive number

assigned to such motorcycle, as provided in this section, and the

information in such record may be obtained upon payment of the fees

specified in section two hundred two of this chapter.

3. Certificate of registration. a. Upon the filing of such application

and the payment of the fee hereinafter provided, the commissioner shall

assign to such motorcycle a distinctive number and, without expense to

the applicant, issue and deliver in such manner as the commissioner may

select to the owner a certificate of registration, in such form as the

commissioner may prescribe, and a number plate at a place within the

state of New York named by the applicant in his application. In the

event of the loss, mutilation or destruction of any certificate of

registration or number plate, the owner of a registered vehicle may file

such statement and proof of the facts as the commissioner shall require,

with a fee of three dollars, in the office of the commissioner, or,

unless and until the commissioner shall otherwise direct, in the office

of the agent who issued the certificate or plate and the commissioner or

his agent, as the case may be, shall issue a duplicate or substitute. No

application for registration shall be accepted unless the applicant is

at least sixteen years of age.

b. Upon the issuance of a certificate of registration, the

commissioner shall provide the owner of such vehicle with a notice

regarding the laws governing unidentifiable motorcycle parts, in such

form and manner as the commissioner may prescribe.

4. Times for registration and reregistration. Registration applied for

and certificates issued under any application shall expire on a date

determined by the commissioner. Registration shall be renewed

periodically in the same manner and upon payment of the same annual fee

as provided in this section for registration, to take effect and to

expire on dates to be determined by the commissioner. Provided, however,

that the commissioner shall have authority to fix the length of time for

which any such vehicle which is registered without fee shall be

registered. Provided further, however, that renewal of a registration

may be used preceding the expiration date of such registration including

such expiration date.

5. Registration fees. a. The annual fee for registration or

reregistration of a motorcycle shall be eleven dollars and fifty cents.

Beginning April first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight the annual fee for

registration or reregistration of a motorcycle shall be seventeen

dollars and fifty cents.

b. Where a registration is made for a period of more or less than one

calendar year, the registration fee shall not be prorated. The

provisions hereof with respect to the payment of registration fees shall

not apply to motorcycles owned or controlled by the state, a city,

county, village or town or any of the departments thereof, or any school

district or county extension service association, but in other respects

shall be applicable.

6. Fees in lieu of taxes. The registration fees imposed by this

article upon such vehicles shall be in lieu of all taxes, general or

local, to which motorcycles may be subject.

7. "Motorcycle" as used in this section shall mean a motorcycle as

defined by section one hundred twenty-three of this chapter.