Here is a relatively recent North Carolina law on license plates. My apologies if this has been posted before. I searched thoroughly and found nothing on this.

The nutshell version of the law is, no "information" at all may be covered by your license plate frame.

I am not sure how often police enforce this law; it is probably just selectively enforced like our tint laws or when a LEO gets angry or bored.

Here is the NCDOT release:
https://apps.dot.state.nc.us/pio/rel...ls.aspx?r=3104

And here is an article on the new law:
http://www.examiner.com/photojournal...north-carolina