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House committee advances bill to ban license-plate "flipper" devices
Summary
The House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee voted to release legislation that would prohibit devices that switch or obscure license plates, following testimony from the Delaware State Police and questions from committee members.
The House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee voted to release legislation that would make it illegal to possess, install, sell or otherwise distribute a device designed to switch or hide a motor vehicle's license plate, the committee said during its meeting.
The bill, sponsored by Representative Williams, would amend Title 21 of the Delaware Code to outlaw a "number plate flipping device," defined in the draft language as a manual, electric or mechanical device designed or adapted to switch between two or more plates or to hide a plate from view. Sergeant Ripple of the Delaware State Police…
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