§ 65-7. License plates.

A. 

It shall be unlawful for license plates to be kept in a condition that is not easily readable. License plates shall not knowingly or otherwise be covered by glass or any plastic material, coated with any artificial or synthetic material or substance that conceals or obscures such license plates or that distorts a recorded or photographic image of such license plate.

B. 

License plates shall not be 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.

C. 

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, association, limited-liability company or corporation to sell, offer for sale or distribute any artificial or synthetic material or substance for the purpose of application to a license plate that will, upon application to a license plate, distort a recorded or photographic image of such license plate.

Editor’s Note: This local law also redesignated former § 65-7 as § 65-8.

Added 11-19-2019 by L.L. No. 17-2019