Eradication of the front plate law in California

Done......

 

Signed. My wife just got a ticket yesterday from her Bimmer.

 

we both signed and posted on other sites.

 

It's a $100.00 fine in S.F.!

A customer stated he parked at a meter on MLK day thinking it was a metered holiday. He received a $60.00 ticket for the meter violation and a $100.00 ticket for no front plate!

It is state wide statutory $40.00 (as of 1/1/09 from $25.00) but cities can add fees to bring it to $100.00.

With revenue generation such as this do you think they would really do away with that requuirement?

 

Nope, not going to happen. Not to mention it does help law enforcement. However, I wouldn't mind just the ticket, and not having to drill in holes....

Greg, heard you had a temporary solution to this

rik

 

I beg to differ. I did that. Seemed logical to get the ticket signed and mail back with $10, since I wasn't disputing my guilt, I was just making amends. If you do, it goes to a check processing center and they cash the check for $10 and throw away the signed ticket, but do not process the correction. Got a bill for $90 in the mail and was told that my license would not renew unless paid. Oh, and since I had missed the deadline to disupute, it was pay the fine or else.

If you wish to fix and pay $10, you must first dispute the ticket. Then you get the ticket signed and pay $10. Do not mail the original ticket with the officer's wet-signed signature and $10 to the address on the envelope provided with the ticket....unless you want to spend hours on the phone and mailing copies of what you originally submitted.

 

signed and forwarded. I got one at LAX a few years ago parked right up against a post. The metermaid must have got on hands and knees to check.

 

Until this law gets repealed, do what a few members of a local Corvette club do: Bind the front plate to the front of your passenger sun visor, and flip it down when required. California law allows this practice, and the law only says there has to be a front mounted plate, no more than so many inches above the ground. Doing this complies with that law, and the club members carry, in their cars, the California Vehicle Code paragraph that states this law. They have yet to get a ticket.

 

Signed...please keep spreading the word!

 

What would the cops at LAX do with no more "front plate law"? Hmmmmm... maybe look for terrorists?

 

This can't be legal. The plate is too high off the ground and not on the front of the car. Can't work.

 

Signed, thanks for the link.

 

I signed the petition how many to establish and abolish this law?

 

Signed!

I never install them on my vehicles anyway....never get pulled over either...

Dave @ Innovative Detailing

 

The only way to get this done is to get a lot of enthusiasts together and someone in the state assembly who will introduce a change in the state vehicle code. AND do a lot of lobbying. Believe me, the various PD associations will be against it. They always have been. I retired from almost 3 decades in law enforcement. The front plate is of little value as NO officer in his/her right mind pays attention to the front plate - it is always the back one. BUT it is an excellent excuse to stop someone or write a badly-needed-revenue generating ticket. And don't think for a moment it isn't about money.

If enough people protest and keep protesting through their legislators and car clubs and make a LOT of noise it might be possible. Anything less is just wasting time.
JR

 

Lets hope the cop doesn't read this:

"A casing, shield, frame, border, product, or other device that obstructs or impairs the reading or recognition of a license plate by an electronic device operated by state or local law enforcement, an electronic device operated in connection with a toll road, high-occupancy toll lane, toll bridge, or other toll facility, or a remote emission sensing device, as specified in Sections 44081 and 44081.6 of the Health and Safety Code, shall not be installed on, or affixed to, a vehicle."

This law will NEVER be repealed. Too much money in it.

 

Good luck guys, hope you pull this off. Recently Wisconsin tried to abolish the front plate. It was part of the 2010 budget to produce only one plate, charge the same fee.

In the final hours of debate for the budget (with no opposition for the front plate change) the State Patrol and various city / county department heads marched into the capital and demanded it be removed from the budget. So we still have front plates......

This is the mega-cliff notes version, but you get the idea.

In most states if you read the fine letter of the law, license plate frames are illegal. Luckily most cops ignore this one, could be a big money maker in times of a budget crisis, like now.

 

I got a ticket for it (a clear cover over my rear plate) as well as for no plate on the front, which is why he pulled me over. It was a CHP officer. As my window is sliding down, he opens with the line "This car isn't fit to be on MY roads..." to which I responded a little rhetorically "Excuse me?" - the fix-ticket writing started there. No other infractions.

When I went to get my fixit ticket signed off, the other officer just laughed and said the CHP officer must have been having a really bad day for him to write me on those two items, and he says "It's guys like that that give us all a bad name...". I couldnt agree more. I've been pulled over for speeding, admitted it, get a ticket, no big deal, and the officers are nearly always cool about it, usually drop me down to a ticket that is a fine only.

 

A little off target but years ago the CHP wanted radar to increase their ticket count. At the time Willie Brown was Chairmen of the budget appropriations committee and he lived in SFO; some 90 miles away. Rather than move to Sacramento, he commuted back and forth at speeds that were 3-figure range. He knew that if the CHP got radar, he was one cooked dead duck. So every year he took it out of the budget and they never got the funding. Only after his term expired was it left in the budget and the rest...is an increase in cities budgets due to the tickets written.