DMV Regulatory Agenda

The DMV Regulatory Agenda is a list of Regulations that the DMV plans to change during the year 2025. New York State law does not require the DMV to make all of the proposed changes on the Regulatory Agenda. The document lists changes that the DMV has considered, but the document can be amended if there are changes in law or in the requirements of the DMV.

The DMV can recommend and make changes to the regulations that do not appear in the current Regulatory Agenda. The DMV will update the regulatory Agenda as other proposed changes are considered.

Pursuant to section 202-d of the State Administrative Procedure Act, the Department of Motor Vehicles presents its regulatory agenda for 2025. All references are to Title 15 of the New York Code of Rules and Regulations. The Department reserves the right to add, delete or modify any item presented in this agenda.

1. Part 56 – Amend Part 56 to clarify when school buses may use strobe lights.
2. Part 76 – Amend Part 76 to modernize the requirements for driving school operation and enhance consumer protections. 
3. Part 77 – Amend Part 77 to include penalties for Private Service Bureaus that violate DMV’s current requirements, to prohibit misleading Private Service Bureau advertising, and to modernize current regulations by eliminating obsolete language. 
4. Part 78 – Amend Part 78 to prohibit a dealer from selling a vehicle with a prior unresolved lien. 
5. Part 79 – Amend Part 79 to update the inspection program. 
6. Parts 91 and 122 – Amend Parts 91 and 122 to modernize the delivery of traffic ticket and conviction information to the Department and to conform with Federal requirements. 
7. Subchapter F– Amend Subchapter F to require any licensed or registered entity or person to comply with all Commissioner’s Rules and Regulations and the Vehicle and Traffic Law as applicable.