Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Traffic on North Denver Avenue, Kenton. Brian Burk. Why does Oregon require license plates on the front and back? But some states, like Ohio, require residents to display license plates on the front too. Why is that? Out of the 50 United States, only 19 do not require front license plates on vehicles.
These states are primarily located, oddly enough, in the southeast, with a few exceptions scattered about. The remaining 31 states that do require both plates usually refer to law enforcement for their reasoning. As you can see, more states actually require both plates to be displayed. Some mounts for certain sports cars attach to where you would tow the vehicle from.
Most vehicles have a front and rear tow hook location where the license plate brackets would attach to, fulfilling the front plate requirement. License plate brackets can also be utilized to show individual style, while also not detracting from the grille of the vehicle. Another variation of license plate brackets that are gaining popularity are brackets that allow for the front plate to hide under the vehicle when you desire and pop out when you want them to be visible. This style of the bracket could land you in trouble with law enforcement, however, if you live in a two-plate state and ever forget to pop your front plate out before driving.
Police will often pull over drivers who do not carry a front plate if the state requires it. The penalties vary by state. Sometimes a ticket is issued immediately and other times the driver may receive a verbal warning. Another method law enforcement uses is the fix-it ticket. This means that you initially get a ticket, but if you add the plate and then verify it with your local police department, the ticket will be canceled. If you're determined to drive without a front plate, the good news is that equipment tickets such as a fix-it-ticket rarely affect car insurance rates.
In some states, vehicles parked on the street with no visible license plate can get a parking ticket from the local parking authority. It's not just drivers who object to required front plates on cars, but also lawmakers in some states. They argue that manufacturing and distributing front plates cost more than it's worth.
However, due to the fines levied on violations of the law, other lawmakers argue that the plates pay for themselves. For example, in Denver, a particular toll road generates up to a third of its revenue by scanning front license plates. States not requiring front plates often see a large number of toll violators due to unreadable rear plates. But due to glare on the rear license plates, it is forced to determine fees on up to 15 percent of vehicles by hand rather than automatically.
Naturally, this requires more manpower and paying workers to go out and record license plate numbers. With technology advancing quickly, an argument could be made that these toll roads can use more advanced camera technology to capture rear license plates more accurately instead of the state enforcing a two-plate law.
At the same time, however, each state has to decide for themselves if two plates are better due to their ability to assist law enforcement with toll road accuracy being a bonus. Proponents of front plates argue that they make the public safer. Two plates generally make it easier to find stolen cars, according to the police. License Plate Recognition LPR systems are used by the police to identify stolen cars and cars whose owners have outstanding violations or arrest warrants.
The police use this technology by taking pictures of passing vehicles with a high-speed camera. The LPR identifies the plate numbers and checks them against a hotlist. LPR systems can read 10, plates in about eight hours. If the LPR is only able to work with a rear plate, that number falls by half. A second area where front license plate importance applies is when victims of a crime or bystanders need to read the plate numbers of a vehicle.
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