State laws and regualtions on license plate visibility

[RDNXXX]

Is there anyone place where you can review the Laws and regulations on Visibility of License Plate Tags as applied by all States ?

Actually looking for Maryland and District of Columbia laws and regulations on the books with detail description. I would imagine that many of these are faigue and open to interpetation.

[awesometbn]

Check with your state legislature. Here the law in Georgia as of July 1, 2005.

http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2...ltext/sb93.htm

Article 1 of Chapter 2 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registration and licensing of motor vehicles, is amended by inserting immediately following Code Section 40-2-6 a new Code Section 40-2-6.1 to read as follows:

"40-2-6.1.
Any person who willfully covers any license plate with plastic, other material, or any part of his or her body in order to prevent or impede the ability of surveillance equipment to clearly photograph or otherwise obtain a clear image of the license plate is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $1,000.00."

[awesometbn]

See what you can find on this website called "State Traffic and Speed Laws" by John Carr.

http://www.mit.edu/~jfc/laws.html

Possibly more info about this subject from this Washington Post article reprint,

http://phantomplate.com/print_washingtonpost.html

Maryland's law is more specific, prohibiting "use, advertising and sale of license plate covers that distort a recorded image of any of the characters of a vehicle's registration plate recorded by a traffic control signal monitoring system."

Says Kevin Enright, spokesman for Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr.: "There is no question that using these products is illegal under Maryland motor vehicle laws."

[awesometbn]

You'll get a kick out of this one. WTOP Radio reports "Illegal Tag Covers Found on Personal Police Cars"

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=428&sid=634065

All tag covers are illegal in the District and in Maryland. In Virginia, it is illegal to cover your license plate with anything tinted.

In the District, WTOP not only found illegal tag covers on D.C. police cars, but on police officer's personal cars as well.

[Blayznaz]

I live in No. California and I got stopped for my license plate being "Partially Obscured" because I had a tow ball on the back bumper of my pickup. Which made NO sense whatsoever. What if I was actually towing a trailer? Then it would be TOTALLY "Obscuring" The plate. So - Either it has to be TOTALLY obscuring the license plate or not at all - BUT NOT PARTIALLY???? I guess the cops here like extremes - not half-baked efforts......???? Please, SOMEBODY explain THAT to me?
So - MY guess is (In California at least) that those antiphoto plate shields would be "Obscuring" the view of the license plate. I wouldn't put it past 'em to try and get ya' for it. Just remember - the Government REALLY doesn't like it when you mess with their revenue generating techniques.

[proudNMAmember]

I think having a clear license plate cover shouldn't be a problem. If you get/have one of those black smokened license plate covers I think you are looking for trouble. Mk

[vw242]

Try this link http://www.ncsl.org/programs/transpo...ranrev2.htm#il

[LS2]

I live in No. California and I got stopped for my license plate being "Partially Obscured" because I had a tow ball on the back bumper of my pickup. Which made NO sense whatsoever. What if I was actually towing a trailer? Then it would be TOTALLY "Obscuring" The plate. So - Either it has to be TOTALLY obscuring the license plate or not at all - BUT NOT PARTIALLY???? I guess the cops here like extremes - not half-baked efforts......???? Please, SOMEBODY explain THAT to me?
So - MY guess is (In California at least) that those antiphoto plate shields would be "Obscuring" the view of the license plate. I wouldn't put it past 'em to try and get ya' for it. Just remember - the Government REALLY doesn't like it when you mess with their revenue generating techniques.

Well that is the whole point of the license plate anti-photo cover that it allows people and police to see your license so not to raise any suspicious
attention but only obscure vision to those picture taking cameras. Cause it is like you can't drive around with duct tape across your license plate as you will get the same results. Which of these anti-photo plates really work and don't attract attention to its existance and purpose?

[carter840]

Well if you are towinf something it must have it's own trailor license plate in plain veiw.

[Qui-Gon]

Is there anyone place where you can review the Laws and regulations on Visibility of License Plate Tags as applied by all States ?

Here are the laws as they are currently in NY:

NYS Vehicle & Traffic Law Sec. 402-b:

"Number plates shall be kept clean and in a condition so as to be
easily readable and shall not be covered by glass or any plastic
material, and shall not be knowingly covered or coated with any
artificial or synthetic material or substance that conceals or obscures
such number plates or that distorts a recorded or photographic image of
such number plates, and the view of such number plates shall not be
obstructed by any part of the vehicle or by anything carried thereon,
except for a receiver-transmitter issued by a publicly owned tolling
facility in connection with electronic toll collection when such
receiver-transmitter is affixed to the exterior of a vehicle in
accordance with mounting instructions provided by the tolling facility."