First issue: 1995 • Created from: Trailer • Size: Passenger • Colors: Standard
Registration Type and Baseplate History
While semi-trailers had long been registered as trailers, it was only in the mid-nineties that a long-term registration period for semi-trailers was proposed. A semitrailer is defined as "any trailer which is so designed that when operated the forward end of the its body or chassis rests upon the body or chassis of the towing vehicle."
Sect. 401, 7, L.8.
However, upon the request of the applicant upon the registration or renewal of a registration of a nineteen hundred eighty-nine or later model year semitrailer, such semitrailer may be registered for a period of not less than five and one-half nor more than six and one-half years for a fee of eighty-six dollars and twenty-five cents.
In 1995 New York State began to register 'permanent' semi-trailers for six-year registration periods. The first six-year semi-trailer plates, which expired in 2001, had a a four-digit and one-letter registration, followed by a coded digit for the last digit of the year of expiration. Plates issued in 1996 for 2002 ended with a '2', and continued through the ??? plate.
Beginning in 2001 (with plates expiring in 2006) semi-trailer plates were issued on the Empire white base. The last digit continued to represent the year of expiration. Idon't know whether this series of plates always used a 'B' before the code digit.
Empire gold base plates are identical in all respects to the Liberty base plates as far as dies, registration and embossing. The example above, 4680B1, while issued in 2010 or 2011, is clearly a reissue of a Empire white base registration.
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