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poll: one license-plate, or two?
« on: September 25, 2009, 06:54:51 PM »
Does your state issue only one license-plate for a motor vehicle, or two?

I remember as a little lad the first time I noticed there were some automobiles with no front license-plate--this was in Pennsylvania, and I was about four years old at the time--and for whatever reason long ago buried in the psyche, it caused me great discombobulation.

I am surprised that law enforcement authorities don't get upset about states that allow only one license-plate, on the rear of the vehicle.  It seems to me the more ways in which a particular motor vehicle can be identified, the better.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2009, 07:00:05 PM »
Illinois issues 2, but I've seen many cars with only the back one.  Most often it's a car that's undergone lots of modifications. I've also seen people with their plates stuck to the inside of their windows, both front and back or just the front one, with the rear in the normal place.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2009, 07:03:51 PM »
We don't care how you Yankees do it. Here in the South we have one plate: on the rear. I guess you dumb Yankees need two because your'e so crime ridden the Police need to see you Thugs comin' and goin'.

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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2009, 07:06:36 PM »
Rear plate only here in TN.

I wish we had annual inspections like they did in TX.  That's one government intrusion I liked.  At least once a year, each car had to have working headlights, tail lights, wipers, turn signals, BRAKES, etc.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2009, 07:12:24 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on September 25, 2009, 07:00:05 PM
Illinois issues 2, but I've seen many cars with only the back one.  Most often it's a car that's undergone lots of modifications. I've also seen people with their plates stuck to the inside of their windows, both front and back or just the front one, with the rear in the normal place.

Until very recently--perhaps the past 4 or 5 years--Nebraska was pretty laid-back and lenient about license-plates.  Now it's pretty much a hard-and-fast rule that both plates need to be where they're supposed to be.

If either plate--or for that matter, both plates--are inside the windshield or the rear window, one needs to have a good reason (and sometimes there are good reasons) for doing that.  If there's a good reason, law enforcement lets it go, no big deal.  But if there's not a good reason, some sort of minor ticket.

The bigger deal involves those 8.5x11 paper IN TRANSIT displays.

After purchasing an automobile in Nebraska, one has 30 days to license and plate it.

There always used to be dealer-issued IN TRANSIT displays, and hand-made ones, in the cases of an automobile being a private purchase, and not through a dealer.

Well, there were problems with the home-made signs.  Some people, after 30 days had lapsed, just put up a new hand-made IN TRANSIT display, with a new date of expiry.  Ultimately, they would get caught, but most of the time one could get away with it for several months before that happened.

So now the rule is only dealer-issued IN TRANSIT displays are allowed.

If one purchases an automobile from a non-dealer, until he gets the thing licensed and plated, he is to drive around with nothing at all (which I myself have had to do), resigned to being stopped at some time.  In which case one yanks out the dated bill-of-sale, and it's all copacetic.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2009, 07:19:08 PM »
OK has one.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2009, 07:34:27 PM »
Quote from: ColonialMarine0431 on September 25, 2009, 07:03:51 PM
We don't care how you Yankees do it. Here in the South we have one plate: on the rear. I guess you dumb Yankees need two because your'e so crime ridden the Police need to see you Thugs comin' and goin'.

Ha ha ha ha... hi five. :-)

Our state used to require two but switched to a single plate about the same time a third tail light started showing up on new cars.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2009, 07:36:09 PM »
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2009, 07:37:21 PM »
Arizona requires one plate.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2009, 07:46:53 PM »
Quote from: Chris on September 25, 2009, 07:34:27 PM
Ha ha ha ha... hi five. :-)

Our state used to require two but switched to a single plate about the same time a third tail light started showing up on new cars.

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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2009, 07:56:09 PM »
Kansas has 1. 
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2009, 08:03:19 PM »
PA and Delaware both still have one.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2009, 08:12:40 PM »
Texas has 2.  I am cool with the registration, but these damned emission control tests stink!
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2009, 08:39:24 PM »
In Texas it was two but we never put them on the front of our cars because my husband didn't want to screw up the look of the front bumper (I live with crap like this because my husband is a designer).  I was only pulled over once for not having it and was given a warning.  I was pulled over on the Lewisville Bridge (for those of you who know where that is) of all places.  Here in California you have two as well.  My husband asked when he picked up the plates at AAA if you had to put them on the front of the car.  They said you will get a $100 fine if you don't so he is going to put them on.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2009, 08:41:34 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on September 25, 2009, 08:12:40 PM
Texas has 2.  I am cool with the registration, but these damned emission control tests stink!

Don't bitch about anything in Texas.  To register our car in Texas it cost $73 for my car, here in California it cost $619.  You have to do the smog test every year in CA ($50) at least in Texas you don't have to have your emissions tested every year.

*maybe the two year emissions test is only every two years for new cars, I can't remember now.   :thatsright:
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2009, 08:44:40 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on September 25, 2009, 07:06:36 PM
Rear plate only here in TN.

I wish we had annual inspections like they did in TX.  That's one government intrusion I liked.  At least once a year, each car had to have working headlights, tail lights, wipers, turn signals, BRAKES, etc.

same state as Lug and Chris....

I agree.....I wish there were annual inspections, but some of the "hill" counties around here....you'd never get people to do it...
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #16 on: September 25, 2009, 08:58:26 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on September 25, 2009, 08:12:40 PM
Texas has 2.  I am cool with the registration, but these damned emission control tests stink!

I think Texas gives you 2 but its only required on the back.

or something like that.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #17 on: September 25, 2009, 09:16:26 PM »
Missouri it's two.

About every year or so I actually wash most of the dead bugs off the front plate so it can be read.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #18 on: September 25, 2009, 09:23:37 PM »
One in Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi. I think Florida, Louisiana, and Alabama also only require one. I should know given how many times I go there.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #19 on: September 25, 2009, 10:02:28 PM »
both my current cars have 2, one registered in IL and the other in AK

AK registration BTW is awesome.  new plates included in price of the car, plates are cheap if you are registering a car brought in, and registration is good for 2 years with like a $100 fee.  They even let me renew my registration in 07 for one that expired in 06... on a vehicle that was at the time in UT
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #20 on: September 25, 2009, 10:06:43 PM »
Two plates required here in Ohio.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #21 on: September 25, 2009, 10:14:32 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on September 25, 2009, 07:06:36 PM
Rear plate only here in TN.

I wish we had annual inspections like they did in TX.  That's one government intrusion I liked.  At least once a year, each car had to have working headlights, tail lights, wipers, turn signals, BRAKES, etc.

The annual inspections here in Texas have become a joke. They are little more than another way for the state to fraudulently acquire more money and many places will pass a vehicle that has serious issues. If I were to mandate a vehicle inspection, it would be like the ones in Virginia. Those were thorough. All in all, I liked the fact that MN didn't require an annual inspection and let the police handle the vehicle equipment infractions.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #22 on: September 25, 2009, 11:31:45 PM »
The more heavily populated counties in TN have emissions tests once a year for $10; some others do not.  NC has an annual inspection for $25 that covers emissions, brakes, lights, tires, and glass.

I think the MOT test in the UK is about £50 and they're a lot more thorough... they can fail you if they find a rust hole in the undercarriage.
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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #23 on: September 26, 2009, 12:51:58 AM »
On new purchases, Illinois started giving out temp. cardboard type plates in lieu of the "applied for" window stickers that were easily hacked.

The cardboard plates did not hold up well in the car wash!

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Re: poll: one license-plate, or two?
« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2009, 03:13:22 AM »
Quote from: RobJohnson on September 26, 2009, 12:51:58 AM
On new purchases, Illinois started giving out temp. cardboard type plates in lieu of the "applied for" window stickers that were easily hacked.

The cardboard plates did not hold up well in the car wash!



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