§ 202. Fees for searches and copies of documents. 1. Except in those\ncases in which it is provided by law that no fee shall be charged, the\nfees for searching the records of the department of motor vehicles kept\npursuant to the provisions of this chapter and for furnishing copies of\ndocuments in said department kept pursuant to the provisions of this\nchapter shall be as provided in this section. Provided, however, that\nno fee shall be charged any public officer, board or body, volunteer\nfire company, volunteer ambulance service, or legal aid bureau or\nsociety or other private entity when acting pursuant to section seven\nhundred twenty-two of the county law, for searches or copies of\ndocuments to be used for a public purpose.\n 2. Fees for searches of records. * (a) The fee for a search which is\nmade manually by the department shall be ten dollars.\n * NB Effective until April 1, 2028\n * (a) The fee for a search which is made manually by the department\nshall be five dollars.\n * NB Effective April 1, 2028\n * (b) The fee for a search which is made by direct entry by a\nrequester who has been approved for such entry by the commissioner shall\nbe seven dollars.\n * NB Effective until April 1, 2028\n * (b) The fee for a search which is made by direct entry by a\nrequester who has been approved for such entry by the commissioner shall\nbe four dollars.\n * NB Effective April 1, 2028\n * (c) The fee for a search which is made by means of an electronic\nmedium which has been prepared by a requester who has been approved for\nsuch service by the commissioner and which is processed by the\ndepartment shall be seven dollars.\n * NB Effective until April 1, 2028\n * (c) The fee for a search which is made by means of an electronic\nmedium which has been prepared by a requester who has been approved for\nsuch service by the commissioner and which is processed by the\ndepartment shall be four dollars.\n * NB Effective April 1, 2028\n (d) The commissioner may condition approval for direct entry of a\nrequest or use of an electronic medium by a requester upon the\nestablishment and maintenance of an account with the department with a\nminimum balance established by the commissioner from which fees\nchargeable to the requester shall be deducted. In addition, the\ncommissioner shall prescribe the specifications and procedures for use\nof electronic media and may establish a minimum and/or a maximum number\nof searches which may be contained on any one such electronic medium\nsubmission.\n (e) For the purposes of this section, a search shall consist of a\nsingle entry of an acceptable identifier for the purpose of obtaining a\nspecific category of information relating to a person, vehicle or number\nplate. The commissioner shall by regulation define such categories and\nidentifiers acceptable for such categories. Except as provided in\nsubdivision three of this section, a search of the record of the\ndepartment shall include the furnishing of the information disclosed by\nsuch search, and with respect to searches made manually by the\ndepartment, shall include a certification of such record.\n 3. Fees for copies of documents. The fees for copies of documents,\nother than accident reports, shall be one dollar per page. A page shall\nconsist of either a single or double side of any document. The fee for a\ncopy of an accident report shall be fifteen dollars. All copies of\ndocuments shall be certified at no additional fee. Whenever search of\nrecords of the department is required in conjunction with a request for\na copy of a document, the fee for such search shall be the fee provided\nin paragraph (a) of subdivision two of this section. The result of such\nsearch will be the locating of the document to be copied, or if no\ndocument can be located, a certification to that effect will be the\nresult of the search.\n 4. Registration lists and title information. (a) The commissioner\nshall have discretion to contract wi
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