Fees

§ 2125. Fees. (a) The commissioner shall be paid the following fees:

* (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, 2028

* (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, 2028

(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 section with respect to the payment of fees for recording a security interest on a certificate of title shall not apply to any security interest reserved or created on behalf 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 section which shall be deposited in the dedicated highway and bridge trust fund established pursuant to section eighty-nine-b of the state finance law and the dedicated mass transportation fund established pursuant to section eighty-nine-c of the state finance law and distributed according to the provisions of subdivision (d) of section three hundred one-j of the tax law.

* NB Repealed April 1, 2028