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ramenth said

Here in NY you have to have insurance in order to get plates. You sell a car, why are you going to continue to hold insurance on it? Insurance gets dumped (or transferred) and the plates get dumped (or transferred). New owner has to get his own insurance, his own plates, and in doing so, has to get the title transferred.

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In NY you technically have to also get the car re-inspected when it changes owners, unless its from a registered dealer. They aren't as strict about that though. If you don't have a valid yearly safety inspection on file in Albany (capital) then they will not allow you to renew registrations either.

For cars 25 model years or older the inspection fee is $10 and is only safety. If you have a car newer than that you have to do safety and emissions. 96+ have to plug in and pass OBDII diagnostics and those are $21.

I don't like all of the regulations, but I do like that vehicles are at least looked over every year to prevent accidents from neglect.