New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 15 - Department of Motor Vehicles › Chapter I - REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER › Subchapter A - DRIVER LICENSING AND TRAINING › Part 7 - Prelicensing Classroom Driver Training And Highway Safety Instruction › Section 7.8 - Course completion certificate (form mv-278)

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Drivers' schools and other approved
				  agencies must obtain MV-278 certificates from the local Department of Motor
				  Vehicles district office. The person(s) responsible for the secondary driver
				  education program and/or the continuing education prelicensing program must
				  obtain MV-278 certificates from the State Education Department. Course
				  completion certificates shall be issued only to those schools that have
				  qualified instructors.
(b) The
				  instructor(s) who conducts the prelicensing program or research study program
				  must sign the course completion certificate. The certificate shall not be
				  signed by the instructor prior to conducting the prelicensing course or issued
				  by the instructor until after the completion of the prelicensing course or
				  research study program and must bear the completion date. The month must be
				  spelled out in complete or abbreviated form but may not be written
				  numerically.
(c) Except as
				  hereinafter provided in this section upon completion of an approved course, the
				  original of a course completion certificate completed by the school shall be
				  issued to the student. The duplicate copy of such certificate shall be retained
				  by the school for a period of one year from the date of issuance.
(d) If the approved school is a high school
				  or college providing an approved driver education course, a course completion
				  certificate may be issued to the student when, in the opinion of the
				  instructor, that material which is required to be given in an approved course
				  has been taught to the student even though the driver education course has not
				  been completed.
(e) A duplicate
				  course completion certificate may be issued by the school to the student only
				  when the original certificate has been lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed. No
				  duplicate course completion certificate may be issued later than one year after
				  the issuance of the original. The duplicate certificate will expire on the
				  expiration date of the original which it is replacing. A duplicate MV-278
				  certificate must be signed by the instructor or school owner or director of
				  continuing education or principal of the school providing the
				  instruction.
(f) The local district
				  office must be notified immediately upon the drivers' school's loss or theft of
				  any MV-278 certificates by secondary driver education and continuing education
				  programs. Identification numbers of the lost MV-278 certificates must be
				  forwarded to the department.
(g) In
				  the event a prelicensing program or research study program is discontinued, all
				  remaining MV-278 certificates must be accounted for and returned to a
				  department district office or the Education Department.