New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 15 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Chapter I - REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER
Subchapter F - BUSINESSES REQUIRING LICENSES
Part 78 - Dealers and Transporters
Transporters
Section 78.30 - Transporters
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) Transporter plates are issued to a registered dealer and to any person, firm, association or corporation engaged in a business requiring the limited operation of motor vehicles in order to facilitate the delivery, repair or improvement thereof or the installation of something thereon. In addition to the uses stated above, transporter's plates may be used on vehicles owned by a manufacturer for demonstration purposes. Included in this classification are credit and finance companies, brokers, manufacturers, weighmasters, testers, automobile repair shops, automobile painters, automobile body builders, automobile radio installers and installers of other equipment in or on motor vehicles. Transporters of vehicles from automobile factories or assembling plants are also included in this classification. Transporters must submit proof that they have need for such plates. A retail dealer is not required to have transporter plates if the vehicle is used for any of the above purposes.
(b) Proof of insurance. Before transporter plates will be issued, the applicant for such plates must present to the commissioner an insurance I.D. card prescribed by the regulations of the commissioner covering any motor vehicle owned or controlled by the transporter and operated under a transporter plate issued to such transporter.
(c) Use of transporter plates. Transporter number plates issued under this section shall be used only for the limited operation of vehicles owned or controlled by the registrant for the purpose of weighing, testing, dismantling, transporting or delivering the same, or for the purpose of moving such vehicles in connection with making installations thereon or improvements thereto, or the repossession or foreclosure thereof. Transporter plates may be loaned for a period of five days to move a vehicle which has been sold or leased.
