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- From: dhepner@cup.hp.com (Dan Hepner)
- Subject: Re: Fines for not registering a vehicle?
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:50:14 GMT
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- From: schwartz@nynexst.com (Steven Schwartz)
-
- >I'm missing something. In NY, there's no legal obligation to register a
- >vehicle unless it is to be driven on public streets. If you want to
- >drive it around your backyard, you don't need plates. Is CA different?
-
- Ca is often different, if "different" means "anything imaginable to
- collect money".
-
- Normal registration fees are due if:
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- The vehicle is parked on a public street, or at any public parking
- facility once during the year in question
- The vehicle is towed once on a public street during that year
- And of course, if the vehicle is driven.
-
- (one-trip permits allow for moving a vehicle from one storage place to
- another, or to a repair facility, but doing either without such a
- permit incurs the full fee)
-
- Off highway fees (usually far less than normal registration) are due if:
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- The vehicle is operated within the state of Ca.
- The vehicle is transported within the state of Ca.
-
- Once due, these fees do not go away with the next year; rather the opposite
- occurs, the fees are delinquent, implying a penalty. The longer they
- remain delinquent, the greater the penalty. Each year adds new fees,
- and a new penalty. As bad as could be imagined.
-
- There does appear the _option_ of waiving the fees and penalties to
- new owners, but 9562 suggests that this should not be expected if
- one buys a vehicle with out-of-date plates.
-
- "Certificates of non-operation", which claim that the vehicle never
- incurred the fee, are commonly used in circumstances which would imply
- a massive liability, but one must be signed by each of the previous
- owners.
-
- Dan Hepner
-