ALBANY – Think you don’t like the DMV now?

The state Department of Motor Vehicles is planning to go ahead with a plan that will require motorists across New York to renew inspection stickers in designated 10-day time periods during the month they’re due, depending on the date of issuance. A DMV spokesman, Ken Brown, said the plan aims to alleviate the end-of-the-month crunch auto shops now face from motorists coming in days before their inspections expire.

If accepted, the proposal would go into effect in January 2007.

But lawmakers say they’ve already heard a cacophony of complaints about the plan and will work to stop it.

The rule was originally enacted in January but was withdrawn amid the objections of several lawmakers. A staggered system for inspections had been in place on Long Island and the New York City metro area for years before being recently suspended.

Democratic Assemblyman Paul Tonko said consumers had been well served by the end-of-the-month system for years and saw no reason for the “onerous” change.

That sentiment was echoed by a Senate Republican.

“This ill-fated idea to make the motor vehicle inspection process more complicated and cumbersome was met with a great deal of anger among New Yorkers, whose lives are often difficult enough without having another unnecessary hurdle put in their way,” Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno said.

“If they were going to get serious about burdens they should call me up,” the executive director of the New York State Association of Service Stations and Repair Shops, Ralph Bombardiere, said.

Mr. Bombardiere, whose organization represents about 3,500 businesses, says that many stations, especially downstate, see a “logjam” at the end of the month while dealing with the myriad regulations imposed by Albany.

“It probably was a good idea for the downstate people,” he said.

But Mr. Tonko said the 10-day window for inspections is too limited. Weather, family vacations, or illnesses could stop motorists from meeting the deadline.