An updated rule on obstructed license plates has been proposed by the Department of Transportation of the city of New York to help ensure that license plates are clearly displayed on motor vehicles — and your input is requested.
Update Rule on Obstructed License Plates in New York: Your Input is Requested
This proposed rule would amend section 4-08 of Chapter 4 of Title 34 of the Rules of the City of New York to update provisions relating to the display requirements of license plates to align with the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law as follows:
- §3. Subdivision (j) of section 4-08 of chapter 4 of Title 34 of the Rules of the City of New
York is amended by adding a new paragraph (10) to read as follows: - (10) Obscuring, concealing, or distorting plates prohibited. No person shall stand or park a
vehicle having a license plate that is:- i. Covered by glass or any plastic material;
- ii. Covered or coated with any material or substance that conceals or obscures such
plate or that distorts a recorded or photographic image of such plate; - iii. Covered with a material appearing to be a number plate for display as proof of lawful
registration, but which has not been lawfully issued by the commissioner of the
department of motor vehicles, such commissioner’s agent, or the equivalent official or
agent from another state, territory, district, province, nation or other jurisdiction; or - iv. 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.
You can comment here — or send an e-mail message or a letter via postal mail — pertaining to the proposal to update the aforementioned rule by Thursday, February 6, 2025.
Final Boarding Call
The fact that the controversial New York Congestion Pricing Program became effective as of Sunday, January 5, 2025 certainly cannot be the reason for the city of New York to want to implement updates to the current rule pertaining to the obstruction of license plates. That would be ludicrous, I tells ya — especially as the city has no corrupt politicians and does not want to increase its tax revenue…
…so what could the reason possibly be?!?
Hmm…I wonder…
Photograph ©2022 by Brian Cohen.
