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Trading In or Selling Your Old Car Vehicles.” If you do not know the exact fee you
must pay, you can determine the fee using the
Before you trade in or sell your old vehicle, Schedules of Registration Fees (MV-204A) avail-
make sure to remove the vehicle plates and the able at any motor vehicle office or through a work
windshield registration sticker, which shows your page at the DMV website. Make sure to include
plate number. This can prevent you from being your insurance card with your renewal application
charged with parking tickets that are not yours. if your insurance company has changed and you
have not responded to a DMV Insurance
REGISTRATION RENEWAL Inquiry Letter.

Most registrations are renewed every two Mail your completed Vehicle Registration/Title
years. Approximately 45 to 60 days before your Application and other documents to:
registration will expire, you should receive a
renewal reminder in the mail. If you changed your NYS DMV Utica Processing Center, P.O. Box
address and did not notify the DMV, you will not 359, Utica, NY 13503.
receive the reminder. If you did not answer three
or more parking tickets, or if your registration is Allow two weeks to receive your registration
suspended or revoked, you will not receive the renewal. If you do not receive it after two weeks,
reminder. Allow two weeks to process and deliver contact a DMV Call Center or visit any state or
the registration. You are responsible to know county motor vehicle office. Allow more time for
when your registration expires and to renew it on overseas mail.

time. This is true even if you do not get a reminder If your name has changed and you have not
in the mail. notified the DMV, you must visit a DMV office and

If the expiration date falls on a weekend or le- show proofs of your identity. For more informa-
gal state holiday, your registration is automatically tion, contact a DMV Call Center.

extended to midnight of the next business day. Online at the DMV website dmv.ny.gov:
Make sure you maintain liability insurance on your Online registration renewal requires that you have
vehicle during the extension period. not changed your address or insurance company,

If you have not received a renewal notice, you and that the registration is for a passenger car,
may be able to renew your registration – small commercial truck or a motorcycle that is not
used exclusively off road. Your registration fee,
By mail: Complete a Vehicle Registration/Title and any related fees, will be displayed on the
Application (MV-82), available at any motor vehi- computer screen. In three quick steps, you can
cle office and from the DMV website dmv.ny.gov renew your registration online and use your credit
(search under Forms). If your registration must be card for payment. Your renewal will be automat-
sent to an address that is not the mailing address ically processed and mailed to you. Allow two
you entered on the application form (MV-82), weeks for delivery.
enclose a separate note that requests the DMV
to mail your registration to the other address. Do In person at a state or county motor vehicle
not put this mailing address on form MV-82 unless office: You must complete and submit a Vehicle
you want it to appear on the registration and Registration/Title Application (MV-82). Note: An
your DMV registration record. Reminder – if you application brought into an office by a second
indicate a change of address on your registration, party (someone who is not the registrant) must be
it will affect ONLY that registration. Use a Change accompanied by the original New York license/
of Address Form (MV-232) to change all your permit/non-driver identification card for the sec-
DMV records. This form is available at any motor ond party and either the original or a photocopy
vehicle office and from the DMV website (search for the registrant. This includes spouses (hus-
under Forms). bands and wives). The application must be signed
by the registrant, not the person who brings the
Enclose a check or money order for the correct form into the office.
fee, payable to the “Commissioner of Motor