N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 2125 – Fees
§ 2125. Fees. (a) The commissioner shall be paid the following fees:
Terms Used In N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 2125
- Commissioner: includes the office and a branch office of the commissioner and, when authorized to receive a document or fee as agent of the commissioner, the clerk of a county. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 2101
- Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property in or title to a vehicle. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 2101
- Security interest: means an interest in a vehicle reserved or created by agreement and which secures payment or performance of an obligation. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 2101
- State: means a state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a province of the Dominion of Canada. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 2101
- Vehicle: means a vehicle as defined in section one hundred fifty-nine of this chapter except that it shall not include a device for which a registration is denied pursuant to section four hundred-a of this chapter and, except with respect to section twenty-one hundred two of this article, shall also mean a vessel as defined in section twenty-two hundred fifty of this chapter. See N.Y. Vehicle and Traffic Law 2101
* (1) for filing an application for a certificate of title, fifty dollars except where the application relates to a mobile home or a manufactured home as defined in section one hundred twenty-two-c of this chapter, in which case the fee shall be one hundred twenty-five dollars;
* NB Effective until April 1, 2026
* (1) for filing an application for a certificate of title, five dollars except where the application relates to a mobile home or a manufactured home as defined in section one hundred twenty-two-c of this chapter, in which case the fee shall be twenty-five dollars;
* NB Effective April 1, 2026
(2) for each security interest noted upon a certificate of title, five dollars;
(3) for a duplicate certificate of title, twenty dollars.
(b) If an application, certificate of title or other document required to be mailed or delivered to the commissioner under any provision of this article is not delivered to the commissioner within ten days from the time it is required to be mailed or delivered, the commissioner may impose, as a penalty, an amount equal to the fee required for the transaction.
(c) The fee for filing a notice of security interest shall be paid by the party secured and such fee shall not be charged to the owner in any manner.
(d) The provisions of this section with respect to the payment of fees for the issuance of a title certificate shall not apply to any vehicle which is exempt from the payment of a registration fee by any provision of this chapter.
(e) The provisions of this § of the United States, this state, any of the political subdivisions of this state, or any public authority of this state created by law.
(f) Whenever the commissioner prescribes a procedure which causes images relating to an application for a certificate of title to be created and stored an additional fee not to exceed one dollar above the actual cost of producing a certificate of title rounded to the nearest twenty-five cents shall be paid to the commissioner upon the filing of an application for a certificate or duplicate certificate of title.
* (g) Fees assessed for filing an application for a certificate of title shall be deposited to the credit of the dedicated highway and bridge trust fund with the exception of the forty dollar increase in the application for an original title for vehicles other than a mobile or manufactured home and the one hundred dollar increase in the application for an original title for a mobile or manufactured home collected pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision (a) of this section, and the ten dollar increase in the fee for a duplicate certificate of title collected pursuant to paragraph three of subdivision (a) of this § -b of the state finance law and the dedicated mass transportation fund established pursuant to § 89-c of the state finance law and distributed according to the provisions of subdivision (d) of § 301-j of the tax law.
* NB Repealed April 1, 2026