Sec. 78.15. Inspection certificates and requirements

(a) Removal of inspection stickers.

A dealer selling a motor vehicle or trailer must remove from the motor vehicle or trailer any inspection stamps, except on a vehicle purchased from another dealer, immediately upon taking possession of the vehicle. Such removal of the sticker under the circumstances described above shall not be a violation of the provisions of subdivision (e) of section 306 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law.

(b) When a motor vehicle owned or controlled by a dealer has been inspected and approved by a licensed inspection station, the dealer shall not take or retain possession or control of such vehicle unless and until the inspection certificate has been properly affixed to the vehicle by the inspection station.

(c) A motor vehicle (including a trailer, other than a mobile home trailer) which is sold or transferred for use on the public highways of this State by a dealer must be inspected within 30 days of the date of sale, as such date is indicated on the MV-50, and bear a certificate of inspection prior to delivery. This requirement is not applicable to a motor vehicle sold to another dealer, to a motor vehicle sold as a junk vehicle or to a motor vehicle transferred to a lessee who has had possession of the vehicle for a period of 90 days or more under the lease. When the sale is to such a lessee, the inspection information box on the form MV-50 must be marked: “long term lessee.”