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Posted by: recon76

I don't know if this question has been addressed before in this forum, as I am new to this site. However, in regards to the registration year stickers on the back of Mass plates. If you run someone's plate and it comes back expired and you stop that car and notice that the person has a later year sticker (like a blue '09). Would that be a improper display violation or a C90/24B False use of a RMV document.

I see it every once in awhile. Some dope thinks he is going to get away if his/her car being expired by taking a registration sticker of someone else's car and put it on their plate in hopes that police won't know their plate is expired. I just want to know the appropriate response to this. Any info would be great.

Posted by: Crvtte65

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Originally Posted by recon76

I don't know if this question has been addressed before in this forum, as I am new to this site. However, in regards to the registration year stickers on the back of Mass plates. If you run someone's plate and it comes back expired and you stop that car and notice that the person has a later year sticker (like a blue '09). Would that be a improper display violation or a C90/24B False use of a RMV document.

I see it every once in awhile. Some dope thinks he is going to get away if his/her car being expired by taking a registration sticker of someone else's car and put it on their plate in hopes that police won't know their plate is expired. I just want to know the appropriate response to this. Any info would be great.

I asked Pat Rodgers the same question as I once saw a vehicle with a compliance sticker on it with the number drawn in with a sharpie. He said that since 24B has specific verbiage on what the RMV documents are and since the compliance sticker is not listed, it most likely would not hold up.

MGL Ch 90 § 24B:

Section 24B. Whoever falsely makes, steals, alters, forges or counterfeits or procures ... a learner’s permit, a license to operate motor vehicles, an identification card issued under section eight E, a certificate of registration of a motor vehicle or trailer, or an inspection sticker, or whoever forges or without authority uses the signature, facsimile of the signature, or validating signature stamp of the registrar or deputy registrar upon a genuine ... shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years or in jail or house of correction for not more than two years.

Posted by: soup

I would cite the $100 for unregistered, tow the vehicle per dept. policy and scrape the sticker off. I would then write it up on the back of the citation so my court prosecutor could read it at the appeal hearing.

Posted by: Kem25

I have actually encountered this exact thing. I wrote a good narrative on the back of the citation and the magistrate (who usually will find someone not responsible for 90-9 if the car is registered at the time of the hearing) found the person responsible.

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