2019 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 2 - Department of Motor Vehicles; Commissioner
Article 3 - Exemption of Non-Resident Owners and Operators
251 - Exemption for Members of the Armed Forces and Their Dependents.

§ 251. Exemption for members of the armed forces and their dependents.
  1.  The provisions of this chapter relative to the registration of motor
  vehicles and motorcycles and the display  of  number  plates  shall  not
  apply   to  motor  vehicles  or  motorcycles  having  registrations  and
  displaying plates issued by the armed forces of the  United  States  for
  vehicles  owned  by members of the armed forces or their dependents, but
  such exemption shall be valid only for a period of forty-five days after
  the owner thereof has entered this state for the purpose of traveling to
  either his place of residence or a point of military duty.
2. A member of the armed forces who  has  been  issued  a  license  to
  operate  a motor vehicle or motorcycle by the armed forces of the United
  States may operate a motor vehicle or motorcycle on the public  highways
  of  this state without being licensed under this chapter for a period of
  sixty days after such person has entered this state.
3. The provisions of this chapter relative  to  the  registration  and
  equipment of motor vehilces, motorcycles and trailers and the display of
  registration  numbers  shall not apply to motor vehicles, motorcycles or
  trailers owned by members of the armed forces or  their  dependents  who
  are  non-residents  of this state, provided that the owner thereof shall
  have complied with the provisions of the law  of  the  foreign  country,
  state,  territory  or  federal  district  of  his  residence relative to
  registration and  equipment  of  such  motor  vehicles,  motorcycles  or
  trailers,  as  the  case may be, and the display of registration numbers
  thereon, and shall conspicuously display  his  registration  numbers  as
  required thereby.
4. For the purposes of this section "member of the armed forces" shall
  mean  a  person  on  active  duty,  other  than  annual  active duty for
  training, in a branch of the armed forces of  the  United  States  or  a
  person  who  has  been  discharged  from  such  active  duty  within the
  preceding sixty days, and "dependent" shall mean a spouse or child of  a
  member  of  the  armed  forces  or  other  person  residing  in the same
  household and dependent  upon  such  member  of  the  armed  forces  for
  support.