What if the NYS inspection expires while my vehicle is in another state?
Contact the motor vehicle authorities in that state. Determine if an expired out-of-state inspection is a violation of motor vehicle law in that state. Ask the authorities if a NYS inspection extension sticker prevents a ticket for the violation. A NYS inspection extension allows you 10 days from the date the vehicle returns to NYS to get a NYS inspection done.
When you request the extension, allow 14 days for the DMV to process and mail your extension sticker. You need to receive the extension sticker before you return your vehicle to New York.
To receive an inspection extension, send the following information:
•your name and current out-of-state mailing address
•the year and make of your vehicle
•your NYS vehicle plate number
•your inspection sticker number and expiration date.
Mail the information to:
NYSDMV Bureau of Consumer and Facility Services
Inspection Extension
P.O. Box 2700-ESP
Albany, NY 12220-0700
When you receive your extension sticker:
•Do not put the extension sticker on your windshield while your vehicle is out of state.
•Keep the sticker and the instructions in your vehicle to show to an out-of-state police officer.
•The sticker is not a guarantee that a police officer will not issue a traffic ticket.
•There will be no record of an inspection on the NYSDMV computerized registration files. You cannot renew the registration if there is no DMV computer record of an inspection within the last 12 months. If you must renew the registration before you get a NYS inspection, call 1-518-402-2111.
After you return your vehicle to NYS:
•Write the date the vehicle returned to NYS on the extension sticker.
•Attach the sticker to your windshield.
•Get a NYS inspection within 10 days
