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DMV backs dropping front-plate mandate but warns against issuing specialty front plates
Summary
DMV Deputy Commissioner Matt Russo said the agency supports removing the statutory requirement to display front license plates but opposes language that would require DMV to produce specialty front plates, citing production costs and precedent. Committee members asked for DOC cost estimates and safety/enforcement data.
Matt Russo, deputy commissioner for the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, told the Senate Transportation committee on Feb. 12 that DMV supports removing the statutory requirement that vehicle owners produce and display front license plates but opposes any bill language that would direct DMV to issue specialty front plates.
Russo said the plate shop’s economics make producing small quantities of specialty plates costly and that creating a mechanism for DMV to produce specialty front plates would risk opening demand from many organizations that have previously…
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