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Maybe the cop who has to run your plates cares. Maybe he or she would like to know just who might be in that car before they have to step up to the window, and knowing which state issued the plate is an important fact. Your plate is there for identification, period.
Maybe the cop who has to run your plates cares. Maybe he or she would like to know just who might be in that car before they have to step up to the window, and knowing which state issued the plate is an important fact. Your plate is there for identification, period.
"The law applies only to vehicles registered in North Carolina." And if anyone bothered to look at the example pictures in the news article they'll see this is a money grab by the state. Apparently police departments are employing simpletons if they cannot figure out what's on those plates. If the number/letter is obscured to the point that it's unreadable, then sure - ticket away, but we all know this is just another excuse to pull someone over and fill a cities coffers for a nitpicky offense.
Ha! I told my DH to take the dealer frame off the car when our plate came in the mail - he wanted to keep it so the plate didn't look bare. It's been a law in NY for years not to have your plates blocked (front and back in NY) so I told him it was probably a law here. Glad to know I'm right!
"The law applies only to vehicles registered in North Carolina."
Other states have similar laws. I don't really care that much one way or the other about the issue - it just doesn't strike me as that big of a deal to ditch the frames. It does make sense to me that NC and other states would have requirements that license plates be readable.
I cannot help but think that this has something to do with the automatic license plate readers that will eventually be going up to collect the tolls on the Outer Loop as well.
My $.02 is that a completely visible rear plate is a reasonable tradeoff for not having a front plate. Not sure who in State Gov is responsible for that, but they're my friend.
Frank
I bent my plate and nearly put my eye out trying to take that thing off. The car dealership definitely did NOT want people to remove them. Jerks! You could put someone's eye out!
I've been noticing that situation already. We spent the summer watching & listing license plates with our younger daughter. A good many were impossible to read while passing by. The frames obscure a lot and some of the plates themselves are hard to read, with colors that obscure, state names in script, etc. Most plates used to be contrasting colors & plain print for state name, very few were hard to read while passing by.
I wondered then if troopers had a hard time with them too.
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