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Sound Off: License stickers
On a Kansas vehicle license plate, there is a “year” sticker that usually goes under the “month” sticker in the upper right hand corner to show that taxes have been paid for that year. Is it legal to put the year sticker anywhere on the license plate?
Douglas County Treasurer Paula Gilchrist says the state rules and regulations on license plates are clear and do not leave room for “creative stickering.” She notes that K.S.A. 8-134 (e) provides that the Department of Revenue’s director of vehicles, “shall designate the location on a number plate where such decal shall be affixed.” “For more than a decade, the Director of Motor Vehicles has designated the upper right hand corner of the license plate as location for the decal,” Gilchrist said.
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Comments
budwhysir 11 months, 2 weeks ago
I am not sure why this would be an effective question other than for those unable to follow directions. If a location is specified, why would one go against this placement?
when a new tag is purchased and paid for, the stickers are put on while at the DMV. So when you renew and get new stickers. I would suggest the old fashion way of cleaning the old sticker to be free of dirt and grime and adhering the new sticker on top.... And yes the stickers are made to be NOT REMOVABLE so don't try to tear old sticker off....
SpeedRacer 11 months, 2 weeks ago
I'm totally confused. I got new stickers today and they look just like last year's (except they are red) . They are square with the year and month. I just put it right over last year's sticker.
juma 11 months, 2 weeks ago
I am wondering if the new larger sticker that includes the info of year and month was less expensive (less tax money) to print than having two stickers? Seems to me that the one larger sticker was cheaper. If so, then thanks to the Topeka bureaucrats.
gsxr600 11 months, 2 weeks ago
You won't be very hard pressed to see someone rocking a color other than yellow or orange. They're everywhere. Whether or not they have paid their taxes is another question entirely but I would assume people are not that stupid not to put their new stickers on once they've paid annual taxes.
Drivers also get away with not having any working brake lights. Not one, but all three out. If they've gotten away with it that long for all of them to go out, clearly the LPD doesn't have any sort of focus on traffic enforcement.
Lynn731 11 months, 2 weeks ago
This year they told us to put a large sticker they gave us over both of the previous stickers. We did that, but it is not large enough to cover them completely. It is about time they issued new plates, with a place for the larger sticker if this is what they are going to. We have had the same plates for a long time.
Phoghorn 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Sounds like we have a bad case of sticker shock!
jafs 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Do people not even read?
The new stickers came with clear instructions on how they were supposed to be put on license plates.
Rancho 11 months, 2 weeks ago
I got my new sticker last month and it is too big to fit in space of the previous one. It had to overlap the top of the license numbers.
fivedollarmc 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Cops on K10 like to pull people over for having the sticker in the "wrong" place. How do I know? It happened to me.
Also, it's not a ticketable offense (so the officer told me). It was late at night, and as always, they were fishing for DUI's or outstanding warrants.
jane_doe 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Honestly, they don't care much as long as you go pay the taxes. Then there are those of y'all that like FORGET to do that?
shaking head....
gccs14r 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Lots of sections of the vehicle code are not regularly enforced. If we have to choose what to enforce, I'd rather they go after moving violations such as failure to signal, crosswalk encroachment, and tailgating, or equipment violations such as bald tires or failed suspension, rather than concentrate on sticker stupidity.
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