Just stumbled across this in a Police Department Bulletin, and thought I would share the information:
Registration Plate Covers
Effective January 1st, it is unlawful to: Operate any motor vehicle that is equipped with registration plate
covers. (625 ILCS 5/12-610.5 (b))
Statutory Definition –Registration Plate Cover. The term registration plate cover means any tinted, colored, painted, marked, clear or illuminated object that is designed to:
• Cover any of the character of a motor vehicle’s registration plate; or
• Distort a recorded image of any of the characters of a motor vehicle’s registration plate recorded by;
o An automated red light enforcement system; or
o An automated traffic control system (625 ILCS 5/12-610.5 (a))
This means that:
A: you can't put on any license plate covers, not even clear
B: you can't put on any of those things that are made to blur your license plate to cameras... I have noticed that the law does fail to mention that 'spray-on' stuff that is sold to fool traffic cameras. I've heard it doesn't work though.
Is that Illinois State Police or local Plainfield/Joliet area requirements? From the code numbers it looks like Illinois-wide but I hadn't heard of this one...
the spray doesnt work. the resolution on the traffic cameras can pic up a spot the size of a penny on your plates up to 3 city blocks away... so they can see through most anything that you spray on there... unless you decide to cake your plates with mud
my father and i were firefighters and did regular "tours" of the police station, which is next door to the company's second station and they told us a lot about the "standard traffic camera". These things are amazingly high tech, not what's shown on TV. They can zoom in and see that someone has a spagetti stain on their lapel if they wanted to.
You know, the Ontario Highway Traffic Act says the same thing, but I had a cop tell me that clear is fine (this was when I had my blue tint ones on). Your best bet would be to ask some of the authorities what they're take on it is.
hyunelan, it is probably because of the glare coming off of the sun distorts the image captures at times and there cant be a ticket issued for they dont have a plate to trace back to the driver's address. i know that there used to be some clear ones with anti-glare coating, but i have no clue what happened to those.
Aww, this sux....I had both blue tinted till some lady at a mall hit my front one and cracked it (2 years back). I took the front plate off to wash it, and then never put it back on. I still have the blue cover on the back one though...So I drive with no front plate and a blue tinted cover on the back and still don't get pulled over...(Knock on Wood)...
It all depends if the cop wants to mess with u that day. Just don't drive like an idiot and you should be fine.
PEACE
dj arsonist
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