2013 New York Consolidated Laws
VAT - Vehicle & Traffic
Title 10 - UNIFORM VEHICLE CERTIFICATE OF TITLE ACT
Article 46 - (2101 - 2135) UNIFORM VEHICLE CERTIFICATE OF TITLE ACT
2107 - Issuance and records.

 
    § 2107. Issuance  and  records.  (a)  The commissioner shall file each
  application received and, when  satisfied  as  to  its  genuineness  and
  regularity  and  that  the  applicant  is  entitled to the issuance of a
  certificate of title, shall issue a certificate of title of the vehicle,
  except that the commissioner  may  require  that  any  such  vehicle  be
  inspected   in  a  manner  prescribed  by  him  for  conformity  to  the
  description given in the application before he issues a  certificate  of
  title.
    (b)  The  commissioner  shall maintain a record of all certificates of
  title issued by him:
    (1) Under a distinctive title number assigned to the vehicle;
    (2) Under the identifying number of the vehicle;
    (3) Alphabetically, under the name of the owner, unless  he  maintains
  alphabetical records of all owners holding certificates of registration;
    (4) Under the registration number of the vehicle; and
    (5)  In  the  discretion  of  the commissioner, in any other method he
  determines.
    (c) When the commissioner issues a certificate of title for a  vehicle
  as a result of an original application for a title or as a result of the
  filing  of  a  security  interest,  he  shall also issue and mail to the
  lienholder or lienholders named in the original application, or  to  the
  lienholder  who  filed  the  subsequent  security  interest  a notice of
  recorded lien.