Find a friend to do it for you. The insurance you should be able to get online. The RMV stuff, if you use an insurance agency they should be able to do it FOR you.
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Expired out of state inspection sticker
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not2cleverRed
Obvious Observer
Both NY and MA REQUIRE insurance. Therefore, if you are not currently insured, you are not driving legally. Furthermore, you'd best hope that MA is more cavalier about enforcing this than NY - there are people in NY who have gotten in trouble for a 1 day lapse years before.
If you were still a resident of NY at the time the registration expired, you should have renewed it then. There's this thing called "forwarding mail" that would allow you to do this. I know, because I've done this. Does not take an advanced degree.
If at the time the registration expired you were a MA resident, then you should have gone down to the DMV and gotten your registration done there.
Furthermore, BOTH states require some sort of inspection, and many people have inspection stickers that expire the same month as their registration sticker. Would it be safe to say that you also have no valid inspection sticker?
I shudder to think of what institution of higher learning conferred this degree on you. Hopefully it was a MFA or something of that sort, and not in some form of engineering.
You are old enough that the excuse of doing it for the first time doesn't fly.
HighwayMan
Super Secret Senior Member
I don't think that type of mail will be forwarded, meaning registration or license renewals.
OP is making it sound as if the inspection is the real issue. The registration can be renewed online very easily.
I can only speak for the reverse situation. If I stop a car from NJ, MA, etc I cannot enforce the other state's laws so I can't write an expired inspection. I would have no idea whether the other state even continues to use inspection stickers for instance.
The vehicle must be registered in MA once residency is established. The "issues" the OP brings up about why she can't register in MA are pretty lame. I would worry more about getting written for that than for getting a ticket for an expired NY inspection in another state.
FlyingRon
Senior Member
Note there is NO statutory 30 days either. You are expected to expeditiously get a Massachusetts license and registration upon establishing residency there.
The state doesn't take excuses as to why you chose not to obey the law. Either you register your car in state or you don't drive as far as they are concerned.
The state doesn't take excuses as to why you chose not to obey the law. Either you register your car in state or you don't drive as far as they are concerned.
Zigner
Senior Member, Non-Attorney
Actually, there is a statutory 30 days: https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Chapter90/Section3
Specifically: ...no motor vehicle or trailer shall be so operated on more than thirty days in the aggregate in any one year or, in any case where the owner thereof acquires a regular place of abode or business or employment within the commonwealth, beyond a period of thirty days after the acquisition thereof...