What Happens to My Car If My Base Is Suspended?

Short answer: The rules don't suspend your own FHV license because your base was suspended, but your car can't be dispatched while it is affiliated with a suspended base. The base must tell you within 5 days. Move the car to a new base with a $25 base transfer as fast as you can: if you go 60 days without transferring away from a suspended base, TLC must revoke your vehicle license for non-use.

The rules behind the answer

• The base must warn you. "The suspended Base License holder must notify all vehicle owners that are affiliated with the suspended Base of the suspension within five days" (rule §59B-06(e)(3)).
• A suspended base is not valid. A suspended base license "is not Valid and cannot be used until the suspension ends" (§59B-06(e)(2)).
• Your car needs a valid base to work. Under §59A-11(e), an owner may only let the car be dispatched if it is affiliated with a validly licensed base and the dispatching base is validly licensed. Fine: $400. This covers trips from Uber, Lyft or any other base, because the car's own affiliation is the problem.
• 60 days, then revocation. §59A-08(c)(1): the FHV license "must be revoked for non-use" if for 60 or more days the licensee "fails to transfer from a base that has been suspended."

How to transfer to a new base

TLC handles base transfers by email; no appointment is needed (TLC transfers page).

Check your base's status yourself

• NYC Open Data "Current Bases" (eccv-9dzr) lists licensed bases with their license number and type. It was last updated October 10, 2026 when we checked.
• "For Hire Vehicles (FHV) – Active" (8wbx-tsch) shows each active vehicle's base number and base name, so you can confirm which base your car is on.
• If your base has dropped off the list, ask TLC or your base what happened. See TLC open data lookups and how to find which base a TLC car belongs to.

Money and paperwork to sort out

• Unpaid pay from the old base. A suspension doesn't erase what the base owes you; see how fast must my base pay me?
• Summonses from the old base. See can my base make me pay a summons?
• Lost TLC documents or decals during the move: replacing a lost or stolen TLC license.
• Renewal coming up? You can file the base transfer with your renewal: can I change my base while renewing? and can my car work while its renewal is pending?
• Why bases get suspended. Some base penalties carry "suspension until compliance," for example not cooperating with TLC requests (59B-13(j)(1): $200 and suspension until compliance). Such a suspension can end once the base complies, but you can't know when. Your car can't work in the meantime, and the 60-day rule still applies. What a base must check before dispatching your car: 59B-29(c). Background: FHV base affiliation and the vehicles hub.