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State lawmaker clarifies HB253: targets devices that obscure plate number or validation sticker
Summary
Representative Doug Bankson told the Apopka City Council that HB253 (the so-called "tag flipping" bill) criminalizes devices that cover or occlude a plate’s primary alphanumeric number or validation sticker, and does not change the separate 2015 statute governing decorative license-plate frames.
Representative Doug Bankson visited the Apopka City Council on Dec. 17 to explain HB253, commonly described in social media as the "tag flipping" bill, and to distinguish it from a separate 2015 statute about decorative license-plate frames.
"This does not change the frame statute," Bankson said, describing HB253 as focused on anything that covers, obscures or interferes with the legibility, angular visibility or detectability of the plate’s primary alphanumeric…
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