New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 15 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Chapter I - REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER
Subchapter F - BUSINESSES REQUIRING LICENSES
Part 77 - Private Service Bureaus
Section 77.3 - Renewals and amendments

(a) If services, other than those already listed on the application, are adopted at any time, the licensed private service bureau must notify the Department of Motor Vehicles at once in writing of the additional services.

(b) No licensed private service bureau or branch thereof may be moved to an address other than that on record in the Department of Motor Vehicles without the owner of the business first obtaining permission from the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. Application for a change of address must be made in writing to the department.

(c) The Department of Motor Vehicles must be notified in writing immediately if there is a change in the address of any member of the firm, partnership or corporation.

(d) Renewal applications for a license to conduct a private service bureau may be obtained by contacting the Private Service Bureau Unit at Six Empire State Plaza, Partner and Document Management Unit, Room 322P, Albany, NY 12228.

(e) Renewal applications must be filed at the Department of Motor Vehicles, Six Empire State Plaza, Partner and Document Management Unit, Room 322P, Albany, NY 12228.

(f) The renewal application must be signed and sworn to by the applicant, if an individual. In case of a corporation, association or partnership, the application must be signed and sworn to by an officer or member on behalf of the applicant. If the applicant is a corporation, association or partnership, the appropriate item on the application must be signed by each officer or partner.

(g) If the business is conducted under an assumed name, and there has been a change in the name since your present private service bureau license was issued, a certified copy of the certificate of assumed name filed with the county clerk, or a copy of the filing receipt obtained from the Secretary of State's office, must be submitted with the application. Likewise, any change in proprietorship, where business is a partnership, requires a certificate submitted with the application.

(h) The renewal fee is $25 per year for a two year renewal. Licenses expire midnight, June 30th of the second year. Applications for renewals should be filed at least 30 days prior to June 30th. If the renewal application is approved, a new certificate of license will be issued.

(i) The Department of Motor Vehicles must be notified immediately, on a form provided by the department, when additional or substitute employees are engaged during the year, or of a change in corporate officers or individuals doing business under a trade name.