As I remember it, inspection stickers and registration stickers did not have to match. If you bought a
different car and transferred your old license plates the stickers would be different. All registrations and
inspections were good for 12 months from when issued.
If you bought a car that already had a current inspection sticker the sticker was not transferable. Your NY
registration had a box on the back which was stamped by the inspection station applying the sticker. If you
were stopped, even if the sticker was current on the windshield but the registration wasn't stamped,
you were written up. This was in effect at least through the mid eighties. After that the backs
of the registrations no longer were stamped. Back then inspections were only $3.00 so it wasn't a big deal.
Being cheap I would always wait until the 1st of the month following the expiration of the inspection to get
an extra month out of it. NY recently has changed it again so stickers expire on the 1st -14th and then the
15th to the end of the month. So much for my creativity!
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[b]This is the box on the back of the old registrations
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This is an old window sticker - I think they went to 2 year stickers beginning with renewals in 1991.
I don't know if the window registration decal was in effect in 1970. They might have been
plate decals up until '72/ '73??
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