Register your vehicle at any of our three convenient DMV locations!

  • Appointment required for most in person transactions. Walk-in service for plate surrenders and registration renewals only. Please see our "Schedule an Engagement Page" for more information.
  • All forms must be downloaded and completed prior to your visit.

Registrations & Renewals

To Register a Vehicle (Car, Truck, SUV or Motorcycle) for the first time:

Bring with you:

  • Completed Registration Application, course MV-82
  • Completed Statement of Sale or Gift, grade DTF-802
  • Proof of Ownership
  • Proof of Identity and Date of Nascence
  • NYS Insurance Identification Card
  • Payment

If you are registering a vehicle for someone else, you must show your ID and bring a photocopy of the registrant'south ID/license or their original certificate. The registrant must sign all forms.  Please see the NYS DMV website for more information.

The Damage Disclosure Argument on the back of the New York State Certificate of Title must be completed for all vehicles regardless of the vehicle's age.

If the vehicle is 10 model years erstwhile or newer, the seller must complete the Odometer Disclosure Argument on the dorsum of the title document.

Delight note: When you get a vehicle that is new to y'all (whether purchased or gifted), you tin transfer license plates from your previous vehicle to your new vehicle or get new plates when you annals the vehicle. If yous choose to go new plates, you lot must turn in (surrender) your old plates to DMV. For more than data see the "Plate Give up" and/or "Transfer Plates" sections below.

For more information about registering a vehicle, please visit the NYS DMV website.

Any ATV driven anywhere in New York Country, fifty-fifty solely on private property, must be registered (except utilize for agricultural purposes or non-for-hire snowplowing).  They may exist operated on public lands posted for ATV use and private belongings But with the landowner'due south permission.

Bring with y'all:

  • Completed Registration Application, grade MV-82
  • Completed Statement of Souvenir or Sale, form DTF-802
  • Proof of Buying
  • NYS Commuter's License, Let, or Not-Driver ID
  • Proof of Sales Revenue enhancement Payment, Sales Revenue enhancement Exemption, or Purchase Price
  • Payment

All boats that are powered by a motor and are operated on public waterways must exist registered. This also includes boats in which the motor is not the primary means of propulsion.

Bring with y'all:

  • Completed Gunkhole Registration Application, form MV-82-B
  • Completed Argument of Gift or Auction, form DTF-802.
  • Proof of Buying
  • NYS Driver'southward License, Permit, or Not-Driver ID
  • Proof of Sales Taxation Payment, Sales Revenue enhancement Exemption, or Buy Cost
  • Payment

In full general, the procedures to register and title a calorie-free-duty trailer are the aforementioned as to register and championship a vehicle. Even so, in that location are some differences:

  • insurance is non required for non-commercial trailers
  • at that place are special requirements to register a custom or bootleg trailer (meet NYS DMV website for more data)
  • there are machines and other devices that are like to trailers or that wait like trailers that don't need to be registered (see Trailer-type Vehicles Not Requiring Registration on NYS DMV website (MV-274)

For more information almost registering a trailer, please visit the NYS DMV website.

Each snowmobile must be registered UNLESS it is exclusively used on the owner'southward private belongings or on such belongings that the snowmobile'south possessor has a contractual correct to apply.

Bring with you lot:

  • Completed Snowmobile Registration Application, form MV-82SN
  • Completed Statement of Sale or Gift, form DTF-802
  • Proof of Ownership
  • NYS Driver's License, Allow, or Non-Driver ID
  • Proof of Sales Revenue enhancement Payment, Sales Tax Exemption, or Purchase Price
  • Payment

Y'all can renew your registration by date or by drop box at a Saratoga County DMV office.

  • Registrations should be renewed on or before the expiration date.
  • Renewing early will not modify the new expiration date on your new registration.
  • A registration cannot exist renewed if information technology is suspended or revoked, has been expired for more than one yr, or if vehicle has non been inspected within the past 12 months.
  • To renew by driblet box, please see Drop Box instructions.

Bring with y'all:

  • Completed registration renewal application notice
  • If you do not have this discover, fill up out and bring course MV-82
  • Payment
  • If you are renewing a registration for someone else, you lot must show your original NYS driver license or non-driver ID and bring the original or a photocopy of the registrant's NYS driver license

License Plates

You must surrender your license plates earlier you end your vehicle liability insurance coverage to avoid suspension of your registration and driver license. You lot must also surrender your your plates if you intend to register your vehicle in another state.

To Surrender your Plates:

  • No appointment necessary. Must wait in line for your receipt; no drop off service available
  • Bring your plates (remove fasteners and frames)
  • Complete and bring the plate surrender grade
  • Pay 1 dollar
  • Be sure to remove the stickers from the vehicle
  • Y'all will receive a receipt for insurance purposes.

For more data almost license plates, please visit the NYS DMV website.

Yous cannot transfer your plates to another person. You tin simply transfer ownership. Please see Transfer Ownership data to a higher place.

Later on yous sell or give abroad a vehicle, yous can transfer the registration and vehicle plates to another vehicle you ain. However, yous must maintain insurance coverage on your former vehicle until y'all annals the new vehicle.  When yous register your vehicle, check the "transfer plates" box on the registration awarding (MV-82). See Register a Vehicle above for more information about registering a vehicle.

For more information almost license plates, please visit the NYS DMV website.

If one or both of your vehicle plates were lost, stolen or damaged, you must surrender the vehicle registration to the DMV. Y'all must give up the remaining plate to DMV, if just one plate was lost, stolen or destroyed. If both plates were lost, stolen or destroyed, yous will need a police force report or MV-78B completed past a police agency. If yous cannot get a police report, y'all volition need to submit a written statement to DMV that includes your plate number.

If y'all would similar to replace your plates without paying a fee, yous must submit a law report or an MV-78B (this class is simply available from police enforcement; information technology is non available from DMV) indicating the plate was stolen or destroyed as a result of a crime.

For more than information about lost or stolen license plates, please visit the NYS DMV website.

To get new plates, you will need to make an appointment with Saratoga County DMV. Select "Plate Surrender or Duplicate License or Registration."

Bring with you:

  • The original plate(southward) or the MV-78B/police report/argument
  • A completed Vehicle Registration/Title Application (MV-82)
  • Proof of insurance
  • Proof of your identity

Other Vehicle Transactions & Services

Drop boxes are available for Registration Renewals Just. Drib boxes are located at the Ballston Spa and Clifton Park locations for use at any time and at the Wilton location during the mall's business hours. Staff check drop boxes daily during business concern hours. Please permit up to 7 business days to receive completed registration materials in the post.

Instructions for using a Drop Box:

  • Sign the "Certification" on the back of your registration renewal application.
  • Enclose a check or money order payable to Saratoga County Clerk. Practice NOT ENCLOSE Cash.
  • Write your license plate number on the face up of the check or money lodge.
  • Sign the check or money gild.
  • Practise NOT fold the awarding, check or money order or use staples, tape or newspaper clips.
  • Place the renewal awarding and check or money lodge in an envelope and place in a drop box at a Saratoga County DMV location of your choice.

We will postal service your completed registration to the address on the renewal application.

The seller must:

  • Complete and sign the transfer buying section of the title document and sign a bill of sale (fifty-fifty if information technology is a souvenir) OR
  • Provide other acceptable proofs of buying and transfer of ownership. Please visit the NYS DMV website for more information.

The buyer must:

  • Sign the bill of sale (even if information technology is a gift)
  • Pay sales revenue enhancement or have proof of an exemption
  • Register the vehicle, trailer, ATV, snowmobile or boat. Delight meet First Time Registering above.

For more data about buying and selling a vehicle, delight visit the NYS DMV website.

If you purchase a vehicle from outside of New York State, you volition need to get an in-transit let or temporary registration from that land.

An interstate in-transit permit allows you to transport a vehicle from a location in New York State to a location outside of New York Land.

An intrastate in-transit allow allows you lot to ship a vehicle from a location within New York to another location within New York.

In Transit permits are valid for 30 days and price $12.50.

To apply for an in-transit permit, bring these items to a DMV part:

  • Completed In-Transit Permit / Title Awarding (MV-82ITP)
  • Proof of ownership
  • Proof of identity
  • Payment
  • Proof of insurance (Trailers for non-commercial use practice non need insurance.)

For more information about in-transit permits/temporary registrations, please visit the NYS DMV website.

You can brand an appointment at one of our DMV locations to utilise for a duplicate title or to make a championship change. For questions regarding mobile homes, you must contact New York State Department of Motor Vehicles Championship Bureau at 1-518-486-4714. For more information about titles, visit the NYS DMV website.

When you Renew Here  at Saratoga County DMV, your hard-earned coin stays local working for you!

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