Suburban Chicago News Classifieds SearchChicago Autos SearchChicago Homes  Jobs Sun-Times Find a Pet Classified Ads

Plate Covers not legal in NY

| | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

I am wondering how I can check the law in my city? Just got a ticket in
NYC for plate cover and never heard of this before. I live in an adjacent
city and want to find out what the deal is. I'm driving my son's car and
asked him why he has it and he said he has no idea. I guess the dealer
must have put it on a couple of years ago. How's a body to know??
Any info would be appreciated.

I checked with the New York State Police for the answer to your question. Here is their response. It appears that the law is similar to Illinois':
"New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law section 402-b requires license
plates to be kept clean and in a condition to be easily readable, and
prohibits the covering of license plates with any plastic cover or other
artificial or synthetic material."

0 TrackBacks

Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Plate Covers not legal in NY.

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://blogs.suburbanchicagonews.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/622

1 Comments

The intent is that the information on the plates is easily readable and no protective cover or coating is there assuming it may impede flash photography

Oddly, some NY Troopers interpret this as the plate frame may not touch the tops of the words NEW YORK even a tiny tiny bit. This is not the intent of the law which is only that the information is easily readable.

There should be a simple rule for frame covers not so up to the interpreation of individual troopers as it is common in Orange county for NY Troopers to ticket a plate where the frame touches the top of the words a tiny tiny bit. There is significant internal disagreement police dept to police dept is this should be the case and also significant disagreement within the NY troopers whether it is reasonable to ticket a plate for merely having the frame touch the top of the letters of NEW YORK

Leave a comment


Type the characters you see in the picture above.

About this Entry

This page contains a single entry by Randy Ness published on April 24, 2007 11:38 AM.

Bonding procedures was the previous entry in this blog.

Barefoot driving is the next entry in this blog.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

Categories

Pages