2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 12 - Other Provisions › 395 - Certain Private Service Bureaus to Be Licensed.

§ 395. Certain  private  service  bureaus  to be licensed.   Except as
  otherwise provided herein, no person, firm, association  or  corporation
  shall, engage in the business of assisting for hire in securing licenses
  to  drive  motor  vehicles or registrations or titles of motor vehicles,
  nor shall any person, firm, association or corporation for  compensation
  give  instructions  as  to procuring licenses to drive motor vehicles or
  registrations or titles of motor vehicles, without being the holder of a
  license for such purpose issued by the commissioner of  motor  vehicles.
  An  applicant  for  a  license  shall furnish the commissioner with such
  information and  such  references  as  to  moral  character  as  he  may
  reasonably  require.  Every application shall be accompanied by a fee of
  twenty-five dollars, which shall be regarded as an application  fee  and
  shall  in  no  event  be  refunded. If an application be approved by the
  commissioner, the applicant upon the payment of  an  additional  fee  of
  twenty-five dollars shall be granted a license which shall expire on the
  thirtieth   day  of  June  following  the  date  of  its  issuance.  The
  commissioner shall issue a license certificate to  each  licensee  which
  certificate shall be conspicuously displayed in the place of business of
  the  licensee,  or,  if  the  licensee  has  no  place of business, such
  certificates shall be exhibited at the request of any person. In case of
  the loss, mutilation or destruction of a certificate,  the  commissioner
  shall issue a duplicate upon proof of the facts and the payment of a fee
  of  one  dollar.  The  refusal  to  issue a license may be reviewed by a
  proceeding under article seventy-eight of the  civil  practice  law  and
  rules.  Such license shall be renewed annually upon the payment of a fee
  of twenty-five dollars, such renewal to take effect on the first day  of
  July  in  each  year.    Upon  renewal,  the  commissioner  may,  in his
  discretion, issue a license which shall be valid for a two year  period.
  The fee for any such two year renewal shall be fifty dollars.
No license shall be issued under this section nor shall any renewal of
  a license issued under this section be made for conducting business in a
  city  having  a  population  of fifty thousand or more, according to the
  latest federal census if the place  of  business  of  the  licensee,  or
  branch  thereof,  is within fifteen hundred feet of a building, owned or
  leased by the state,  a  county  or  a  city,  in  which  motor  vehicle
  registrations  or  licenses  to  drive  motor vehicles are issued to the
  public.  The said distance of fifteen hundred  feet  shall  be  measured
  along  the  public  streets  by  the  nearest  route  from such place of
  business, or branch thereof, to such building. The  provisions  of  this
  paragraph  shall  not apply to a holder of a certificate of registration
  issued pursuant to section four hundred fifteen of this chapter.
A licensee shall be subject to such reasonable regulations  concerning
  the  business  conducted  under  his  license  as  the  commissioner may
  prescribe and he shall permit the commissioner, or his  representatives,
  to  inspect  his place of business on any business day and shall furnish
  to the commissioner, or his representative, such information  concerning
  the conduct of the business as may be reasonably required.
The  provisions  of subdivisions five and six of section three hundred
  ninety-four of this chapter shall be applicable  with  respect  to  this
  section.
The  holder  of  a  license  issued  pursuant to section three hundred
  ninety-four  of  this  chapter  or  the  holder  of  a  certificate   of
  registration  issued  pursuant  to  section four hundred fifteen of this
  chapter shall not be required to secure a license under this section  in
  order  to  conduct  a  business  for which a license is required by this
  section but any such licensee, or registrant,  who  shall  conduct  such
  business,  shall be subject to the same visitation and regulation by the

  commissioner with reference to such business as provided in this section
  with respect to a licensee under this section.
As  used in this section the phrase "licenses to drive motor vehicles"
  includes the term "learners' permits".
A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall  constitute
  a misdemeanor.