Check your license plate before coming to Iowa.

[charby]

Holy cow!

Now in Iowa a cop can pull you over if any number or letter is obscured on your license plate. I'm taking my frames off this weekend.

http://www.kcci.com/news/police-can-now-stop-you-for-this-after-new-court-ruling/25773156

[Tallpine]

Isn't Iowa a colony of New England 

[Regolith]

Iowa is pretty far down on the list of states I'd like to visit anyway. Like, near the bottom. Possibly even below California. 

[Tallpine]

Iowa is pretty far down on the list of states I'd like to visit anyway. Like, near the bottom. Possibly even below California. 

Only thing I remember is that we stopped at some gas station along the interstate and none of the pumps were equipped for credit cards.  The woman inside said something like "well we like to talk to our customers face to face."

I'm thinking WTF???  I guess I was pretty grumpy because we were making two nearly back to back 30 hour drives.  Stopping to wait in line and have conversations was not high on my priority list.

The good thing about Iowa is that it keeps Illinois and the rest of the eastern states that much farther away 

[cordex]

This is not an Iowa-only thing.  Many states have the same law on the books, and the vast majority of the time it goes unenforced.  Just like going one mile an hour over the limit or failing to signal when entering and exiting a roundabout can get you pulled over if the cop wants you.

[Tallpine]

There are blowing snow times in Montana when you would have to stop every mile or two to clean your license plate in order to keep the letters/number absolutely visible.   

As far as I know though, old trucks are still legal if you have at least one working light on the back 

[wmenorr67]

Obscure law but can be legally enforced.  Like stated earlier I imagine most if not all states have similar laws on the books.  I will add though that I don't see an officer pulling you over just for this violation, I can see where it would be used as an "excuse" to pull you over like in the case used.  You are suspected of doing something else illegal and we have a justified means to pull you over and oh look you have too many coffee cans in your backseat.

[MechAg94]

Texas has switched to registration and inspection stickers on the windshield.  I didn't know anyone still put them on the license plate.  I don't think my county is on mine, but maybe I wasn't paying attention.

[never_retreat]

NN used to have these little square spots on the top corners of the plate for the reg stickers. They did away with the stickers about 4 years ago. But you technically still can't cover those boxes. I only know this because there was a case in the paper about the owner suing a local stealership for putting on the plate holder things with their name on it that got him the ticket.

[RoadKingLarry]

Oklahoma has a law about obscuring your license plate. From what I've seen about the only time it's used is for fishing expeditions or piling on.

Our tag has a sticker in each upper corner. Month your tag expires on one and year on the other. The month doesn't change but you get a new year sticker when you renew your tags every year.

[Ben]

I don't really have a problem with "do not obscure", at least not to any greater extent than I have with the registration process itself. My problem is when "do not obscure" extends to shielding from electronic detection of the plates. If the law can't read the plates with their eyeballs, that's their tough luck.

[Brad Johnson]

Non-issue.  Legible, un-obscured plates are a requirement in all 50.  Most people sleep through that part of Driver's Ed, though. 

Same fit is thrown when people find out that non-functioning license plate lamps are a also ticketable offense. 

Brad

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Pshaw feel the power! http://www.dailypaul.com/133248/pulled-over-today-with-no-license-license-plate-or-registration


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[wmenorr67]

Pshaw feel the power! http://www.dailypaul.com/133248/pulled-over-today-with-no-license-license-plate-or-registration


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This is 4 years old.  Anyone confirm that what he stated is true?  It is my contention that registration is a form of tax that you have to pay each and every year.  Too bad someone didn't have time on his/her hands to do extensive research as to where all the money brought in by the states for vehicle registrations happens to go.