§ 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, 2026

* (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, 2026

(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, 2026