You must have a valid registration to ride your snowmobile in New York State. It is against the law to

• ride a snowmobile without a helmet 
• operate a snowmobile under the influence of alcohol or drugs 

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation has information about snowmobile insurance, safety training, and other topics.

If you are not a resident of New York, you can get a temporary snowmobile registration immediately. See instructions below.

If your snowmobile is registered in your home state, you can use the New York State Registration for Out-of-State Snowmobiles online service to get a temporary 15-day New York State registration that allows you to immediately operate your snowmobile in New York. (If you registered your snowmobile in New York before, you can renew your registration.) DMV will send your regular registration in the mail. 

You must download your temporary registration (as a PDF) at the end of this transaction. You cannot come back and download it later.

To use this transaction, you must

• be a resident of a U.S. state other than New York (Non-U.S. citizens can register snowmobiles at a DMV office or call 518-626-8989 between 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. on weekdays)
• have your snowmobile registered in your name in another state
  • your snowmobile must display your registration number (decal, plate, or tag)
• only use your snowmobile for recreation in New York State

You must have

• your out-of-state driver license / ID number
• your Social Security Number
• your snowmobile (decal, plate, tag) registration number
• your snowmobile registration expiration date
• the snowmobile’s
  • model year
  • make (Yamaha, Polaris)
  • color
  • engine size in cubic centimeters (CC)
• the New York State County where you plan to use your snowmobile
• a credit or debit card for payment (Visa, MasterCard, Discover Card, American Express)

If you have a current, valid New York State Snowmobile Association (NYSSA) voucher, the fee for your registration is $65. If you do not have an NYSSA voucher, the fee is $135.

Online registration for non-New York State snowmobiles

Entering Name and Address in the New York State Registration for Out-of-State Snowmobile Transaction

The snowmobile registration system only allows for

• 20 characters for the street address
• 14 characters for the city

Spaces count as a character. If your street address or city name is too long to fit in the field(s), follow these guidelines (in the order presented) until your information fits the field

• use numbers (digits) instead of words for the house number
• if the street name is a word that has an accepted abbreviation (e.g. the name of a state), use that abbreviation
• abbreviate the street type
• omit the street type
• remove vowels starting from the last letter of the street name (if the name ends in 2 vowels, start omitting vowels from the last consonant)

For example

• ‘Two Park Avenue’ could be entered as ‘2 PARK AV’
• ‘1575 Massachusetts Avenue’ could be entered as ‘1575 MASS AV’
• ‘14040 W Humphreysville Road Avenue’ could be entered as ‘14040 W HUMPHREYSVLL’

NYSSA Voucher ID Number

NYSSA Snowmobile Club members receive a voucher that includes an ID number. The ID number is located in the top right corner of your voucher above the barcode. If your voucher is current, enter the ID number in the appropriate box of the Registration for Out-of-State Snowmobile transaction. If your voucher is not current, skip the voucher ID section.

Due to limited space in the registration system, DMV may shorten your name to fit on the snowmobile registration document. The document is valid with a shorter name.