Buster,
The letter should say something to the affect that the Second Amendment to
the Constitution is there to to make certain the Government does mess with
the rest of them. I wonder what they would say if you wanted the plate FRE
SPCH.
Welcome to the People's Republic of Kalifornia.
Cheers,
Curt
With the original CA vanity plate HEALEY - I'm certain this plate would
upset plenty of MGA and Midget owners out there who might consider this
plate "offensive."
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Robert Evans <b-evans at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Today, I received the following e-mail from Pam's niece. Since it deals
> with the second most popular topic on the Spridget List, I thought I would
> share it with you. Remember, this is California.
>
>
>
> Buster
>
>
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>
>
> Looking for some feedback on this........ I will be going on the Dave
> Congalton Show on KVEC on Monday the 11th of July @ 5 pm to talk about
> this.
> Tune in!! 920 AM
>
> Many years ago I applied to the DMV for a personalized license plate,
> which
> I received. I won't tell you yet what it said.A few yrs later I married and
> changed the plate to a different
> personalized name, my married name, and let the first plate expire. For
> many reasons, I recently decided I wanted my old personalized plates back
> again. I went to DMV and was told if I wanted to renew them it would be the
> personal plate fee times how many years since it had expired. It worked out
> to be around $450.00!!
>
> An alternative option was to apply for the plates as a new request, this
> would only cost me $49.
>
> I applied for GUN LOVE . There is a place to indicate what the plate name
> means and of course I stated " I love guns". Much to my shock and dismay,
> the letter I received stated that my request had been reviewed to see if
> the
> configuration was "appropriate to manufacture".
>
> "Unfortunately, the DMV is unable to approve the requested plate
> configuration for the following reason(s):
>
> 1. Per California Vehicle Code, Section 5105, the department may refuse
> any combination of letters and numbers that may be considered offensive,
> which could be misleading, or in conflict with any existing license plate
> series issued"
>
> The Special Processing Unit Manager, A. Correa, went on to say :
>
> I am sure you can appreciate how difficult it is to balance an
> individual's constitutional right to free speech and expression, while
> protecting the sensibilities of all segments of our population. Please
> understand that this is a very difficult area to regulate and not everyone
> feels the same way on any given subject.
>
> I am offered an opportunity to submit a letter of explanation for further
> review, which I have drafted and will be submitting.
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