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New York Consolidated Laws, Vehicle and Traffic Law - VAT § 2107. Issuance and records

Current as of January 01, 2021 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

(a) The commissioner shall file each application received and, when satisfied as to its genuineness and regularity and that the applicant is entitled to the issuance of a certificate of title, shall issue a certificate of title of the vehicle, except that the commissioner may require that any such vehicle be inspected in a manner prescribed by him for conformity to the description given in the application before he issues a certificate of title.

(b) The commissioner shall maintain a record of all certificates of title issued by him:

(1) Under a distinctive title number assigned to the vehicle;

(2) Under the identifying number of the vehicle;

(3) Alphabetically, under the name of the owner, unless he maintains alphabetical records of all owners holding certificates of registration;

(4) Under the registration number of the vehicle; and

(5) In the discretion of the commissioner, in any other method he determines.

(c) When the commissioner issues a certificate of title for a vehicle as a result of an original application for a title or as a result of the filing of a security interest, he shall also issue and mail to the lienholder or lienholders named in the original application, or to the lienholder who filed the subsequent security interest a notice of recorded lien.

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