New York Laws
Article 2 - Department of Motor Vehicles; Commissioner
223 - Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Program.

(a) In the presence of a duly authorized police officer in any law
enforcement agency participating in such program, the registered owner
of a motor vehicle shall sign an informed consent statement indicating
that the motor vehicle registered to such owner is not normally operated
between the hours of 1:00 A.M. and 5:00 A.M. The form of such informed
consent statement shall be promulgated by the commissioner after
consultation with the commissioner of the division of criminal justice
services.
(b) (i) Upon signing such informed consent statement, the registered
owner shall be issued decals approved by the commissioner and such
decals shall be affixed to the owner's vehicle in a conspicuous place as
prescribed by the commissioner. The decals shall be issued by the law
enforcement agency participating in the program.
(ii) The law enforcement agency issuing the decals shall make a record
of the decals issued to each registered owner. Such records shall be
maintained by the law enforcement agencies participating in the program
and shall be available to the commissioner, to the superintendent of
state police, to the commissioner of the division of criminal justice
services and to law enforcement agencies.
(c) Informed consent statement forms shall be available at all
participating law enforcement agencies throughout the state. The
commissioner may accept the format used for the decal and application
used by local police officials in municipalities that implemented such
programs prior to the effective date of this subdivision.
4. The commissioner shall, no later than January first, nineteen
hundred eighty-two, submit to the governor and the legislature a report
on the results and operation of the motor vehicle theft prevention
program.
5. The expenses incurred by the commissioner in implementing the motor
vehicle theft prevention program created by this section shall be funded
from revenues collected pursuant to sections four hundred fifteen-a,
four hundred twenty-one, subdivision five of section four hundred
twenty-three-a and four hundred thirty of this chapter.