2010 New York Code
VAT - Vehicle & Traffic
Title 4 - REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
Article 15 - (410 - 412) REGISTRATION OF MOTORCYCLES
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. 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.
    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, of which two dollars and fifty cents  shall  be
  deposited  into  the  motorcycle  safety  fund  established  pursuant to
  section ninety-two-g of the state finance law.

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.