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2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 5 - Periodic Inspection of Motor Vehicles › 302 - Powers and Duties of the Commissioner.

§ 302. Powers and duties of the commissioner. (a) It shall be the duty
of the commissioner to administer the provisions of this article.
(b)  The commissioner may authorize the acceptance of a certificate of
inspection  issued  in  another  state  having  inspection  requirements
substantially similar to those of this state. He may also extend, on any
reasonable ground, the time within which a certificate shall be obtained
by the owner of a motor vehicle.
(c) The commissioner may, consistent with federal law and regulations,
permit any person, association, corporation or subsidiary corporation of
a  parent corporation having registered in his or its name in this state
more than twenty-five motor vehicles, and  qualified  dealers  of  motor
vehicles  held  by them for sale or demonstration, who maintain approved
inspection facilities, to conduct the inspection or inspections required
by this article under regulation prescribed by the commissioner.
(d) The commissioner of motor vehicles may  appoint  and  at  pleasure
remove  inspectors,  consultants and such other assistants and employees
as he may deem  necessary,  within  the  amount  available  therefor  by
appropriation, to carry out the provisions of this article.
(e)  The  commissioner  is  empowered  to  make  reasonable  rules and
regulations for the administration and enforcement of this  article  and
the periods during which motor vehicles are required to be inspected.
(f)  The  commissioner  of motor vehicles may, consistent with federal
law and regulations, upon application of any municipality,  and  upon  a
determination  that  such  municipality  has  sufficient  personnel  and
approved inspection facilities to conduct the inspection or  inspections
required  by  this  article  under  the  regulations  prescribed  by the
commissioner,  permit  such  municipality  to  conduct  the   inspection
required by this article.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 5 - Periodic Inspection of Motor Vehicles › 304 - Inspection and Certificates of Inspection.

§ 304. Inspection  and  certificates of inspection. (a) No certificate
or certificates of inspection shall be issued by an official  inspection
station  until  the  mechanisms  and  other  equipment,  as specified in
section three hundred one (c) of this  chapter,  of  the  motor  vehicle
inspected are in proper and safe condition and comply with the rules and
regulations  of the commissioner and with the laws of this state and the
emissions of such motor vehicle conform with subdivision (d) of  section
three  hundred  one of this article and regulations promulgated pursuant
thereto at the time the certificate is issued.
(b) If  such  inspection  discloses  the  necessity  for  adjustments,
corrections  or  repairs  the  owner shall be so notified and shall have
such adjustments, corrections or repairs made within a period of  thirty
days.  If  such  inspection  discloses improper tire pressure, the owner
shall be so notified and  may  have  such  adjustments,  corrections  or
repairs  made  as authorized by this subdivision. The commissioner shall
establish procedures for reporting the results of such  inspections  and
for   notifying  the  owners.  The  owner  may  have  such  adjustments,
corrections and repairs made in any way and by any person provided  that
such  repairs  are  made  in  a  manner  consistent with federal law and
regulations.
(c)  The  commissioner  shall  issue  certificates  of  inspection  to
official  inspection  stations. Such certificates of inspection shall be
serially numbered and shall bear such information  as  the  commissioner
may  require,  and  shall include a notice that any complaint against an
official inspection station for  inadequate  inspection  or  for  making
excessive  or  unreasonable  repairs,  may  be  made  in  writing to the
department of motor vehicles at Albany, New York. Each certificate shall
be valid until the end of the inspection period during which  the  motor
vehicle  must  again  be  inspected,  as  determined  by  the  rules and
regulations of the commissioner, or until the end of the  repair  period
designated under section three hundred four (b), whichever occurs first.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 5 - Periodic Inspection of Motor Vehicles › 304-A - Certified Inspectors.

§  304-a.  Certified  inspectors.  (a)  The commissioner shall issue a
certificate  to  an  individual  authorizing  such  person  to   conduct
inspections  under  this  article. No person shall conduct an inspection
unless that person  is  a  certified  inspector.  The  commissioner  may
establish a classified system of certified inspectors.
(b)  The fee for filing such an application shall be ten dollars. Such
fee shall not be refundable. The annual  fee  for  certification  as  an
inspector  shall  be  five  dollars. A certification shall expire on any
date determined by the commissioner.
(c) The  commissioner  may,  by  regulation,  establish  standards  of
competency and fitness for certification as an inspector.
* (d)  Fees, deposited. Fees assessed under this section shall be paid
to the commissioner for deposit to  the  transportation  safety  account
established  pursuant  to  section  ninety-one  of the state finance law
through March thirty-first, two thousand four and from April first,  two
thousand four and thereafter shall be deposited to the dedicated highway
and bridge trust fund.
* NB Effective until April 1, 2026
* (d)  Fees, deposited. Fees assessed under this section shall be paid
to the commissioner for deposit to  the  transportation  safety  account
established pursuant to section ninety-one of the state finance law.
* NB Effective April 1, 2026
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 5 - Periodic Inspection of Motor Vehicles › 307 - Voluntary Inspection.

§ 307. Voluntary  inspection.  The  owner  of  any  motor  vehicle, as
  defined in article one of this  chapter,  whose  motor  vehicle  is  not
  required  to  be inspected and certified pursuant to this article or who
  has previously complied therewith may, nevertheless, voluntarily  comply
  with  the  provisions of this article as often as he desires, and in the
  same  manner  as  though  such  inspection  and  certification  were  so
  required.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 5 - Periodic Inspection of Motor Vehicles › 308 - Definitions.

§ 308. Definitions.  As  used in this article the term "motor vehicle"
  shall include trailers and all vehicles included in  the  definition  of
  the term "motor vehicle" contained in section one hundred twenty-five of
  this chapter except the following:
1.  Road  rollers,  tractor  cranes, truck cranes, power shovels, road
  building machines, snow  plows,  road  sweepers,  sand  spreaders,  well
  drillers,  well  servicing  rigs,  feed  processing machines, mobile car
  crushers, earth movers, trucks with small  wheels  used  in  a  factory,
  warehouse or railroad station, agricultural spreaders and sprayers, or a
  tractor-trailer  combination  designed and used exclusively for the same
  purpose as a vehicle specifically included in the foregoing, or
2.  Vehicles  inspected  by  or  operating  under  a  certificate   of
  inspection  authorized  by  the  commissioner  of  transportation or the
  interstate commerce commission, or of a municipally owned  and  operated
  transit system, or
3. Farm vehicles registered under subdivision thirteen of section four
  hundred  one  of  this  chapter, self-propelled combines, self-propelled
  corn and hay harvesting  machines  and  tractors  used  exclusively  for
  agricultural purposes, or
4.  Vehicles  subject to inspection and licensing by local authorities
  provided such inspection by such local  authorities  conforms  with  the
  standards established by the commissioner under this article, or
5. Fire vehicles, except ambulances; or
6.  Police  vehicles  for which the department operating such vehicles
  has submitted a plan approved by the commissioner, who  shall  establish
  the  standards  therefor,  for  periodic  inspection thereof. Such plans
  shall be submitted to the commissioner by September  thirtieth  of  each
  year.  In  determining the acceptability of such inspection plans and in
  establishing standards therefor, the  commissioner  shall  require  that
  such   periodic   inspections   shall  be  substantially  equivalent  to
  inspections required for other motor vehicles  under  this  article  and
  shall  be made with respect to such mechanisms and equipment as shall be
  determined by the commissioner to be necessary for the proper  and  safe
  operation of such vehicles.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 5 - Periodic Inspection of Motor Vehicles › 308-A - Mandatory Reporting.

§  308-a.  Mandatory  reporting. If any motor vehicle is presented for
  inspection at a licensed official inspection station, and  such  vehicle
  has  been  altered,  a  vehicle  commonly  referred  to  as  a  "stretch
  limousine", so as to add seating capacity beyond that  provided  by  the
  original  manufacturer  by  way of an extended chassis, lengthened wheel
  base, or an elongated seating area, and in the case of a truck, has been
  modified to transport  passengers,  such  licensed  official  inspection
  station  shall  refuse  inspection  for such vehicle and promptly report
  such vehicle to the commissioner in a form and manner prescribed by such
  commissioner. Provided, however, that the  provisions  of  this  section
  shall not apply to any altered motor vehicle for which the department of
  transportation  has  issued  an  exemption  letter pursuant to paragraph
  three of subdivision (f) of part 79.20 of title fifteen  of  the  codes,
  rules,  and  regulations  of  the  state  of  New  York  and  that is in
  compliance with part 567 of title forty-nine  of  the  code  of  federal
  regulations.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 5-A - Enacted Without Article Heading. › 309 - Legislative Findings.

§ 309. Legislative  findings.  1.  The  legislature  hereby  finds and
  declares that the safety of the motoring  public  depends  on  a  modern
  system of periodic motor vehicle inspection.
2.  In  nineteen hundred fifty-nine New York state recognized the need
  for inspection of motor vehicles  to  assure  its  citizens  that  their
  safety would be protected by removing from its highways those cars whose
  mechanical condition did not meet rigid standards of safety.
3.  The  introduction  of  anti-pollution  devices and newly developed
  safety attachments to  modern  automobiles  requires  that  experimental
  inspection  stations be established to permit the testing of new methods
  of periodic motor vehicle inspection.
4. The creation of new techniques of periodic motor vehicle inspection
  has become the concern of the federal government, and federal funds  are
  now  available  for  the  development  of criteria for modern inspection
  methods.   Therefore, legislation  should  be  enacted  to  promote  the
  advancement of the periodic motor vehicle inspection program in New York
  state.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 5-A - Enacted Without Article Heading. › 309-A - Establishment of Experimental Motor Vehicle Inspection Stations.

§ 309-a. Establishment   of   experimental  motor  vehicle  inspection
  stations.   The commissioner of motor vehicles  is  hereby  directed  to
  establish, maintain and/or conduct experimental motor vehicle inspection
  stations, by contract or pursuant to an appropriation made therefor, for
  the  purpose  of making the inspection prescribed by article five of the
  vehicle and traffic law and for the purpose of issuing  certificates  of
  inspection.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 5-A - Enacted Without Article Heading. › 309-B - Federal Funds.

§ 309-b. Federal  funds. The commissioner is hereby authorized to seek
  and obtain federal funds to  establish,  maintain  and/or  conduct  such
  experimental motor vehicle inspection stations.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 5-A - Enacted Without Article Heading. › 309-C - Contracts.

§ 309-c. Contracts.  The commissioner may in his discretion enter into
  contracts with other outside agencies to provide testing devices, supply
  facilities, maintain and conduct experimental motor vehicle  inspections
  under his direction and supervision.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 5-A - Enacted Without Article Heading. › 309-D - Fees.

§ 309-d. Fees.  The  schedule  of fees charged by such an experimental
  motor vehicle inspection station  for  making  the  inspection  required
  shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner, provided, however,
  that such fees shall provide sufficient revenue, either by themselves or
  when combined with any federal funds made available to the commissioner,
  to  meet  the  total  costs of the experimental motor vehicle inspection
  program herein established.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 5-A - Enacted Without Article Heading. › 309-E - Reports.

§ 309-e. Reports.  The  commissioner  shall,  not  later  than January
  first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, submit to the governor and to the
  legislature a report on the operation and maintenance of such stations.
2023 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 › 310 - Short Title and Declaration of Purpose.

§ 310. Short  title and declaration of purpose. (1) This article shall
be known and may be cited as the "Motor Vehicle Financial Security Act."
(2) Declaration of purpose. The  legislature  is  concerned  over  the
rising  toll  of  motor  vehicle  accidents  and  the suffering and loss
thereby inflicted. The legislature determines that it  is  a  matter  of
grave  concern  that  motorists  shall be financially able to respond in
damages for their negligent acts, so  that  innocent  victims  of  motor
vehicle  accidents  may be recompensed for the injury and financial loss
inflicted upon them.  The legislature finds and declares that the public
interest can best be served in satisfying the insurance requirements  of
this  article by private enterprise operating in a competitive market to
provide proof of  financial  security  through  the  methods  prescribed
herein.
Nothing in this article shall be construed to affect any change in the
application  of  article twenty-three of the insurance law to automobile
liability insurance rate-making or to effect the development of  various
methods   of  doing  or  operating  an  automobile  liability  insurance
business.
2023 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 › 312-A - Issuance and Termination of Liability Insurance and Maintenance of Records.

§ 312-a. Issuance   and   termination   of   liability  insurance  and
  maintenance of records.  1.  Upon  issuance  of  an  owner's  policy  of
  liability  insurance  or  other  financial  security  required  by  this
  chapter, an insurer shall issue proof of insurance  in  accordance  with
  the  regulations  promulgated  by the commissioner pursuant to paragraph
  (b) of subdivision  two  of  section  three  hundred  thirteen  of  this
  article.
2.  The commissioner shall make a record of all notices of termination
  received by him. After such record has been made, the notices  need  not
  be retained by the commissioner.
2023 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 › 314 - Acceptance of Financial Security Deposits.

§ 314. Acceptance  of  financial  security  deposits. 1. All moneys or
  securities delivered to the commissioner as a financial security deposit
  shall be placed by the commissioner in the custody of  the  commissioner
  of taxation and finance and shall be subject to execution to satisfy any
  judgment  for  damages  for  bodily  injury  or  death,  or injury to or
  destruction of property, arising out of the ownership, maintenance,  use
  or  operation of the motor vehicle with respect to which the deposit has
  been accepted, and subject to the same limits  on  amounts  required  by
  this  article  for an owner's policy of liability insurance, and if such
  moneys or securities shall be otherwise subjected to attachment  or  any
  execution,  the  depositor  shall  immediately  furnish  such additional
  moneys or securities, not otherwise subject to attachment or  execution,
  to meet the requirements of this article.
2.  The  commissioner  shall not accept such moneys or securities as a
  financial security deposit unless accompanied by evidence that there are
  no unsatisfied judgments against such person registered in the office of
  the county clerk of the county where such person resides.
2023 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 › 315 - Release of Financial Security Bonds or Deposits.

§ 315. Release  of  financial  security  bonds  or  deposits.  1.  The
  commissioner, upon the surrender of the registration and  number  plates
  for  a  motor vehicle for which a financial security bond or deposit was
  accepted by the commissioner, shall permit the cancellation of any  such
  bond  or  shall  direct  that  any  such  deposit  be  returned  by  the
  commissioner of taxation and finance. The commissioner shall not release
  such bond or deposit  in  the  event  any  action  for  damages  upon  a
  liability  referred  to  in this article is then pending or any judgment
  upon any such liability then outstanding  and  unsatisfied,  or  in  the
  event  the  commissioner has received notice that such person has within
  the period of three months immediately  preceding  been  involved  as  a
  driver  in  any motor vehicle accident. An affidavit of the applicant of
  non-existence of such facts shall be sufficient evidence thereof in  the
  absence of evidence to the contrary in the records of the bureau.
2.  The commissioner, subject to such reasonable regulations as he may
  establish  shall  permit  the  form  of  proof  of  financial   security
  acceptable  under  this  article  to  be substituted for another form of
  proof of financial security which may already have been accepted by  the
  commissioner as complying with the provisions of this article.
2023 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.
2023 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 › 320 - Notice to Other Jurisdictions.

§ 320. Notice  to other jurisdictions. The commissioner shall transmit
  a certified copy of any record of any conviction under this  article  or
  of  any action taken pursuant to this article resulting in revocation of
  a non-resident's privilege to operate a motor vehicle in this  state  or
  the  privilege  of  the operation within this state of any motor vehicle
  owned by him to the motor vehicle  commissioner  or  officer  performing
  similar functions in the state in which such non-resident resides.
2023 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 › 321 - Exceptions.

§ 321. Exceptions.  1.  This  article  shall  not  apply  to any motor
  vehicle for the operation of which security is required to be  furnished
  under section three hundred seventy of this chapter, including those for
  which  a  certificate  is  issued  pursuant  to  section  three  hundred
  seventy-one of this chapter or under a  similar  law  in  another  state
  except as may be provided in section three hundred seventy; to any motor
  vehicle  operated  under  a  permit  or a certificate of convenience and
  necessity issued pursuant to the transportation law, or under  a  permit
  or certificate issued by the public utility regulatory agency of another
  state;  nor to any vehicle for which a permit or certificate is in force
  pursuant to the interstate commerce act nor to any motor  vehicle  owned
  by  the  United  States,  any state or any political subdivisions of any
  state.
2. Provided, however, that any motor vehicle exempted  in  subdivision
  one  of  this section from the provisions of any portion of this article
  shall be subject to the provisions of article fifty-one of the insurance
  law.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act › 330 - Commissioner to Administer Article; May Require Proof; Court Review.

§ 330. Commissioner  to  administer  article; may require proof; court
review. (a) The commissioner shall administer and enforce the provisions
of this article.
(b) The commissioner is hereby authorized to adopt  and  enforce  such
regulations as may be necessary for the administration of this article.
(c)  Upon  any  reasonable  ground,  appearing  on  the records of the
bureau, the  commissioner  may  suspend  or  revoke  the  operator's  or
chauffeur's  license of any person and may suspend or revoke any and all
of the registration certificates or registration plates  for  any  motor
vehicle  and  may  refuse to issue to any such person any new or renewal
license or to register in the name of  such  person  any  motor  vehicle
unless and until such person gives proof of his financial responsibility
in the future as hereinafter provided in this article.
Any  person  furnishing  proof of financial responsibility pursuant to
this subdivision may be relieved from continuing to furnish  such  proof
in  the discretion of the commissioner provided three years have elapsed
since such proof was first furnished during which period such person has
not been convicted of, or forfeited bail given on  being  charged  with,
any of the offenses specified in subdivision two of section five hundred
ten  of  this chapter and no charges of any of such offenses are pending
against such person. The affidavit of such person shall be  accepted  as
proof  of  the  facts  therein stated, in the absence of evidence to the
contrary before the commissioner.
(d) Any person aggrieved by an order or act of the commissioner  under
this  section  or  under  provisions  of  this  article,  may maintain a
proceeding under article seventy-eight of the  civil  practice  law  and
rules  to  review,  but  the commencement of such a proceeding shall not
suspend the order or act unless a stay thereof shall be allowed by  said
court pending final determination of the review.
(e) The provisions of subdivision seven of section five hundred ten of
this chapter shall apply to a suspension under this article.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act › 331 - Proof Required Upon Certain Convictions.

§ 331. Proof  required  upon  certain  convictions.  (a)  Whenever the
commissioner, or other authorized person, under any law  of  this  state
suspends  or revokes the operator's or chauffeur's license of any person
because of the conviction of such person, the  commissioner  shall  also
suspend  any  and  all of the registration certificates and registration
plates issued for any motor vehicle registered in the name of the person
so convicted as owner except that he shall not suspend such evidence  of
registration,  unless otherwise required by law, in the event such owner
has previously given, or shall immediately give and thereafter  maintain
proof  of  his  financial  responsibility  in  the  future in the manner
hereinafter specified in this article with respect  to  each  and  every
motor vehicle owned and registered by such person.
(b)  Such  suspensions  or  revocation  shall remain in effect and the
commissioner shall not issue to any  such  person  any  new  or  renewal
license  or register in the name of such person any motor vehicle, until
permitted under this chapter and not then unless and until  such  person
gives proof of his financial responsibility in the future as hereinafter
provided  in  this article. Reversal on appeal of any conviction because
of which any license or registration has been suspended pursuant to this
article shall entitle the holder to the  restoration  thereof  forthwith
without proof of financial responsibility.
(c)  For the purpose of this article the term conviction shall include
a forfeiture of bail or collateral deposited  to  secure  a  defendant's
appearance  in  court,  which  forfeiture  has  not been vacated, upon a
charge which upon conviction of the defendant requires or authorizes the
commissioner to suspend or revoke the license of such person.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act › 332 - Proof Required in the Event of Certain Judgments.

§ 332. Proof  required  in  the  event  of  certain judgments. (a) The
commissioner shall also suspend the operator's  or  chauffeur's  license
and any and all of the registration certificates and registration plates
issued  to any person upon receiving authenticated report as hereinafter
provided that such person has failed for a period  of  fifteen  days  to
satisfy  any  judgment  in  amounts  and  upon  a  cause  of  action  as
hereinafter stated.
(b) The judgment herein referred to shall mean any judgment in  excess
of  one thousand dollars for damages because of injury to or destruction
of property, including loss of use thereof, or any judgment for damages,
including damages for care and  loss  of  services,  because  of  bodily
injury  to  or  death  of  any  person  arising  out  of  the ownership,
maintenance, use or operation of any motor vehicle.
(c) The commissioner shall take action as  required  in  this  section
upon  receiving  proper  evidence  that any person in another state, the
District of Columbia, any district court of the United  States,  or  any
province  of  Canada, has failed for a period of fifteen days to satisfy
any judgment in amount as stated in section three  hundred  thirty-three
and upon a cause of action as stated in this section.
(d)  Any  person whose license, registration or non-resident's driving
privilege is subject to suspension hereunder, may be relieved  from  the
effect  of  failure  to satisfy such judgment, if such person files with
the commissioner proper evidence that a  bond  or  insurance  policy  as
provided  for in this article was in force and effect at the time of the
accident  resulting  in  the  judgment,  and  was  available   for   the
satisfaction of the judgment to the extent provided for in section three
hundred thirty-three and that such judgment was so satisfied.
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§ 333. Payments  sufficient  to  satisfy requirements of this article.
Every judgment herein referred to shall for the purpose of this  article
only be deemed satisfied: (a) When twenty-five thousand dollars has been
credited  upon  any  judgment  or  judgments  rendered in excess of that
amount because of bodily injury to or when fifty  thousand  dollars  has
been  credited upon any judgment or judgments rendered in excess of that
amount because of death of one person as the result of any one accident;
or
(b) When subject to such limit of twenty-five thousand dollars because
of bodily injury to or fifty thousand dollars because of  death  of  one
person,  the  sum  of  fifty thousand dollars has been credited upon any
judgment or judgments rendered in  excess  of  that  amount  because  of
bodily  injury to or when one hundred thousand dollars has been credited
upon any judgment or judgments rendered in excess of that amount because
of death of two or more persons as the result of any one accident; or
(c) When ten thousand dollars has been credited upon any  judgment  or
judgments  rendered  in  excess  of  that amount because of injury to or
destruction of property of others as a result of any one accident.
Payments made in settlement of any claims because  of  bodily  injury,
death  or property damage arising from a motor vehicle accident shall be
credited in reduction of the amounts provided for in this section.
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§ 334. Suspension  waived  upon  payment  of judgment in installments.
(a) The commissioner shall not suspend a license or  registration  of  a
motor  vehicle,  and shall restore any license or registration suspended
following non-payment of a judgment,  when  the  judgment  debtor  gives
proof  of  his  financial  responsibility  in  the future as hereinafter
provided, and when the judgment debtor obtains an order from  the  court
in  which  such  judgment  was  rendered, permitting the payment of such
judgment in installments, and while the payment of any said  installment
is not in default.
(b)  A judgment debtor upon five days' notice to the judgment creditor
may apply to the court in which  such  judgment  was  obtained  for  the
privilege  of paying such judgment in installments and the court, in its
discretion and without prejudice to any other legal remedies  which  the
judgment  creditor  may have, may so order, fixing the amounts and times
of payment of the installments.
(c) In the event the judgment debtor fails to pay any  installment  as
permitted  by  the  order of the court, then upon notice of such default
the commissioner shall forthwith suspend the  license  and  registration
certificates  and  registration plates of the judgment debtor until such
judgment is satisfied as provided in this article.
(d) Provided, however, if the judgment creditor consents  in  writing,
in such form as the commissioner may prescribe, that the judgment debtor
be  allowed  license  and  registration  the  same may be allowed by the
commissioner, in his discretion, notwithstanding default in the  payment
of such judgment or of any installments thereof, for six months from the
date  of  such  consent  and thereafter until such consent is revoked in
writing, if  the  judgment  debtor  furnishes  proof  of  his  financial
responsibility in the future as hereinafter provided.
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§ 336. Duty  of courts to report judgments. The clerk of the court, or
  the court where it has no clerk, shall,  upon  written  request  of  the
  judgment  creditor  or  his  attorney,  forward  to  the  commissioner a
  certified copy of transcript of any judgment for damages, the  rendering
  and  non-payment  of which judgment requires the commissioner to suspend
  the operator's or chauffeur's license and/or the  registrations  in  the
  name  of  the  judgment  debtor hereunder, such copy or transcript to be
  forwarded to the commissioner immediately upon the expiration of fifteen
  days after such judgment has become final by expiration  without  appeal
  of  the  time  within which appeal might have been perfected or by final
  affirmance on appeal, and has not been otherwise stayed, or satisfied.
2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions › Article 7 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act › 339 - Owner May Give Proof for Chauffeur or Member of Family.

§ 339. Owner  may  give  proof  for  chauffeur  or  member  of family.
  Whenever the commissioner determines that any person  required  to  give
  proof   or  furnish  security  under  this  article,  or  under  certain
  provisions of article three previously numbered article  six-a  of  this
  chapter,  as  added  by  chapter  six hundred ninety-five of the laws of
  nineteen hundred twenty-nine  and  repealed  by  chapter  eight  hundred
  seventy-two  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred forty-one, is or later
  becomes a chauffeur or motor vehicle operator,  however  designated,  in
  the  employ  of  an  owner  of a motor vehicle, or is or later becomes a
  member of the immediate family or household of  the  owner  of  a  motor
  vehicle, the commissioner shall accept proof of financial responsibility
  given  by  such  owner  in  lieu  of proof by such person to permit such
  person to operate a motor vehicle for which the owner has given proof as
  herein provided.  In case such person is one who is furnished  proof  of
  financial  responsibility  by  his employer, he shall not be required to
  furnish security. The  commissioner  shall  designate  the  restrictions
  imposed  by  this  section  on  the  face of such person's operator's or
  chauffeur's license.
If the owner of a motor vehicle is one  who  is  required  to  furnish
  coverage  for  the  vehicle  under section three hundred seventy of this
  chapter, or one  whose  vehicles  are  operated  under  a  permit  or  a
  certificate  of  convenience and necessity issued pursuant to the public
  service law or is a self-insurer,  proof  by  the  owner  on  behalf  of
  another  as  provided by this section may be made if there is filed with
  the commissioner satisfactory evidence that such owner has complied with
  the law with respect to his liability for damage caused by the operation
  of his vehicles by providing the required insurance or other coverage or
  that he is a self-insurer.
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§ 340. Surrender  of  license  and  evidences of registration. (a) Any
person  whose  operator's  or  chauffeur's   license   or   registration
certificates  or  registration plates have been suspended as provided in
this article and have not been reinstated shall immediately return every
such license, registration certificate and registration plates  held  by
such  person  to the commissioner. Any person wilfully failing to comply
with this requirement is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) The commissioner is hereby authorized to take  possession  of  any
license,  registration  certificate  or  registration  plates  upon  the
suspension thereof under the provisions of this article or to direct any
peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties or  police  officer
to  take  possession thereof and to return the same to the office of the
commissioner.
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§ 341. Amount  of  proof  required.  Proof of financial responsibility
  shall mean  proof  of  ability  to  respond  in  damages  for  liability
  thereafter incurred, arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of
  a  motor  vehicle, in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars because
  of bodily injury to or fifty thousand dollars because of  death  of  any
  one  person,  and  subject  to  said limit respecting one person, in the
  amount of fifty thousand dollars because of  bodily  injury  to  or  one
  hundred  thousand dollars because of death of two or more persons in any
  one accident, and in the amount  of  ten  thousand  dollars  because  of
  injury  to or destruction of property in any one accident. Such proof in
  such amounts shall be furnished for each  motor  vehicle  registered  by
  such person.
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§ 342. Alternate   methods   of   giving  proof.  Proof  of  financial
  responsibility when required under this article  may  be  given  by  the
  following alternate method; either by proof that a policy or policies of
  motor  vehicle  liability  insurance  have been obtained and are in full
  force and effect, or that a bond has been duly executed, or that deposit
  has been made of money or securities, all as hereinafter provided.
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§ 343. Proof  of financial responsibility by certificate showing motor
vehicle liability policy obtained. (a) Proof of financial responsibility
may be made by filing with the commissioner the written  certificate  of
any  insurance  carrier  duly  authorized  to do business in this state,
certifying that there is in effect a motor vehicle liability policy  for
the  benefit  of  the  person  required  to  furnish  proof of financial
responsibility. Such certificate shall give the effective date  of  such
motor vehicle liability policy, which date shall be the same date as the
effective  date  of  the  certificate  and  shall  designate by explicit
description or by  appropriate  reference  all  motor  vehicles  covered
thereby, unless the policy is issued to a person who is not the owner of
a motor vehicle.
(b) No motor vehicle shall be or continue to be registered in the name
of  any person required to file proof of financial responsibility unless
such motor vehicle is so designated in such a certificate.
(c) When a person has been required to furnish proof  of  a  financial
responsibility  and  there  has been in effect a motor vehicle liability
policy for his benefit for a period of three years, during which  period
such  person or any vehicle registered in his name has not been involved
in any accident upon which a report is required pursuant to section  six
hundred  five  hereof, such person may file in lieu thereof, the written
certificate of any insurance carrier duly authorized to do  business  in
this  state,  certifying  that  there is in effect a standard provisions
automobile liability policy in form approved by  the  superintendant  of
financial  services  with  a limit of liability no less than provided in
subdivision (a) of section three hundred thirty-five of this law.
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§ 344. Certificate  furnished  by  non-resident.  (a) The non-resident
owner of a foreign vehicle may give proof of financial responsibility by
filing with the commissioner a written certificate or certificates of an
insurance carrier authorized to transact business in the state, District
of Columbia, or territory or lands in continental  United  States  under
the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, or a province of Canada
in  which  the  motor  vehicle  or  motor  vehicles  described  in  such
certificate is registered, or if such non-resident does not own a  motor
vehicle,  then in the state, District of Columbia, or territory or lands
in continental United States under the  exclusive  jurisdiction  of  the
United  States,  or  province of Canada in which the insured resides and
otherwise  conforming  to  the  provisions  of  this  article,  and  the
commissioner  shall  accept  the same upon condition that said insurance
carrier complies with the following provisions of this section.
(1)  Said  insurance  carrier  shall  execute  a  power  of   attorney
authorizing  the  commissioner to accept service on its behalf of notice
or process in any action arising out of a motor vehicle accident in this
state.
(2) Said insurance carrier shall duly adopt a resolution  which  shall
be  binding  upon  it, declaring that its policies shall be deemed to be
varied to comply with the law of this state relating  to  the  terms  of
motor vehicle liability policies issued herein.
(3)  Said  insurance  carrier  shall also agree to accept as final and
binding any judgment of any court  of  competent  jurisdiction  in  this
state  duly  rendered  in  any  action  arising  out  of a motor vehicle
accident.
(4) Said insurance carrier shall also agree to pay any assessment  for
expenses of administration of this article levied against it as provided
in section three hundred sixty-three of this chapter.
(b)  If  any  foreign insurance carrier which has qualified to furnish
proof of financial responsibility as hereinbefore required  defaults  in
any   said  undertakings  or  agreements,  the  commissioner  shall  not
thereafter accept any certificate of said carrier,  whether  theretofore
filed  or  thereafter  tendered  as proof of financial responsibility so
long as such default continues.
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§ 346. Proof  of  financial responsibility not required after February
  first,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-seven.     Notwithstanding  any   other
  provision  of  law,  no  person,  on  and after February first, nineteen
  hundred fifty-seven, shall be required to  file  or  maintain  proof  of
  financial responsibility pursuant to this article.
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§ 348. Article  not  to  affect other policies. (a) This article shall
not be held to apply to  or  affect  policies  of  automobile  insurance
against  liability  which  may now or hereafter be required by any other
law of this state, and such policies, if  endorsed  to  conform  to  the
requirements  of  this  article  shall be accepted as proof of financial
responsibility when required under this article.
(b) This article shall not be held to  apply  to  or  affect  policies
insuring  solely  the  insured  named  in  the  policy against liability
resulting from the maintenance, or  use  by  persons  in  the  insured's
employ or in his behalf of motor vehicles not owned by the insured.