2021 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 4 - Registration of Vehicles
Article 15 - 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. 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.