Section 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 March 31, 2015
    * (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 March 31, 2015
    (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 March 31, 2015