2018 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions
Article 6 - Motor Vehicle Financial Security Act
316 - Self-Insurers.

§ 316. Self-insurers.  The  commissioner,  in his discretion, may upon
  the application of a person having registered in his name in this  state
  more   than   twenty-five   motor   vehicles,  issue  a  certificate  of
  self-insurance when he is  reasonably  satisfied  that  such  person  is
  possessed  and  will  continue  to  be possessed of financial ability to
  respond to judgments obtained against such person, arising  out  of  the
  ownership,  maintenance,  use  or  operation  of any such person's motor
  vehicles. Upon due notice and hearing,  the  commissioner  may,  in  his
  discretion   and  upon  reasonable  grounds,  cancel  a  certificate  of
  self-insurance.
As a condition to the issuance of a certificate of self-insurance, the
  registrant shall pay annually in addition to any other fee prescribed by
  this chapter, a fee of one dollar and fifty cents for each motor vehicle
  registered in his name and the aggregate amount of such  fees  shall  be
  applied  in reduction of the assessment levied pursuant to section three
  hundred seventeen.
As  a  further  condition  to  the  issuance  of  a   certificate   of
  self-insurance,  the  registrant  shall  pay annually in addition to any
  other fee prescribed by this  chapter,  an  amount  per  vehicle  to  be
  determined  by  the  Motor  Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corporation
  pursuant to section five thousand two hundred seven of the insurance law
  for each motor vehicle registered in his name and the  aggregate  amount
  of  such  fees  shall  be  transmitted  by the commissioner to the Motor
  Vehicle  Accident  Indemnification  Corporation  continued  pursuant  to
  section  five  thousand  two  hundred  three  of the insurance law to be
  applied in reduction of assessments levied by said corporation  pursuant
  to section five thousand two hundred seven of the insurance law.
Notwithstanding  the provisions of any other section, for the purposes
  of this section, the term "motor vehicle" shall include "snowmobiles" as
  defined by subdivision six of § 8-0105 of the conservation law.