New York Vehicle & Traffic Law Section 2105-A - Liens on motor vehicles for failure to make child support payments.

  2105-a.  Liens  on motor vehicles for failure to make child support
  payments. (a) The commissioner, on behalf of the department, shall enter
  into a  written  agreement  with  the  commissioner  of  the  office  of
  temporary and disability assistance which shall set forth the procedures
  for creation of security interests on vehicles in favor of the office of
  temporary  and  disability assistance, a social services district or its
  authorized representative as provided for in section two hundred  eleven
  of  the lien law and section one hundred eleven-u of the social services
  law.
(b) Such agreement shall include:
(1) the procedures under which the office of temporary and  disability
  assistance  shall  notify  the department of a security interest arising
  for failure to make payments of child  support  or  combined  child  and
  spousal  support,  including  data  standards  for  determining that the
  person against whom such lien will be imposed is the person  owing  such
  arrears;
(2)  the procedures under which the office of temporary and disability
  assistance shall notify the department that an individual has  satisfied
  the security interest;
(3)  the  procedure,  subject  to  the approval of the director of the
  division of the budget, for reimbursement  of  the  department  and  its
  agents   for  the  additional  costs  of  carrying  out  the  procedures
  authorized by this section, section two hundred eleven of the  lien  law
  and section one hundred eleven-u of the social services law;
(4)  such  other  matters  as the parties to such agreement shall deem
  necessary to carry out the  provisions  of  this  section,  section  two
  hundred  eleven  of the lien law and section one hundred eleven-u of the
  social services law.
(c) A security interest arising under section two  hundred  eleven  of
  the  lien law and entered into the records of the department pursuant to
  this article shall be listed on  any  subsequent  certificate  of  title
  issued to such person for the same or any other vehicle.
(d)  Notwithstanding  any  other  inconsistent  provision  of law, any
  purchaser of a vehicle which is subject to  a  security  interest  under
  this  section, including a motor vehicle dealer registered under section
  four  hundred  fifteen  of  this  chapter,  shall  take   such   vehicle
  unencumbered  by  such lien which was not recorded on the certificate of
  title used to transfer the vehicle.

Last modified: February 3, 2019