Re: Can Cops Do This?
- From: "Harry K" <turnkey4099@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 14 Sep 2006 07:07:04 -0700
Scott en Aztlán wrote:
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HOWEVER! A Canadian friend told me that he once received a ticket in
SoCal for having expired license plates, even though his car was
licensed in CANADA.(*) So was this just a REALLY clueless cop, or is
enforcing laws from other states/countries something that cops are
within their rights to do?
(*) The car was actually properly licensed at the time; Quebec
apparently stopped issuing the little year stickers for license
plates, expecting the cops to query the central database whenever they
wanted to check on whether a plate is expired or not. It was a
bureaucratic nightmare, but he finally got the ticket dismissed.
--
I'm a wreckless driver and damn proud of it!
Dunno about the two plate thingy.
As to the expired registration. The cop was not enforcing the law of
another state, he was enforcing CA, i.e., you can't drive a vehicle
that isn't licensed. What state it should have been licensed in has no
bearing on the case. Querying the home states data base is standard on
all stops unless the dispatcher is careless or the cop lazy if he does
his own checks and usually takes no longer than (in that case) querying
the CA one. Did I run into some data base errors while I was doing
that job? Yep.
Harry K
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