Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - The Syracuse Department of Motor Vehicles office will no longer let you borrow a pen if you've got to fill out paperwork away from a clerk. They say too many of the pens they’ve been lending have disappeared. Instead, you’ll have to bring your own or buy one from a dispenser.
The DMV says they’ll still let you borrow a pen if you just need to sign a paper right in front of a clerk, but you’ll have to get your own if you need to walk away.
The DMV says disappearing pens used to cost them $150 a month. They also say they don’t want to attach the pens to the tables because it would damage the counter tops at their new facility.
If you don’t have your own pen, the DMV says you’ll have to buy one from their new dispensing machine for $0.50. The dispenser only takes exact change.
The pen dispenser and the food and beverage vending machine at the DMV are run by the Commission for the Blind. They stock the supplies, set the price and keep the revenue.
They couldn't give us an exact number of locations but said many DMV offices across the state have similar pen agreements with the Commission for the Blind.
