Vanity Plate Creates Big Parking Problems For Floridian - Business Insider


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Vanity Plate Creates Big Parking Problems For Floridian
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Vanity plates are a popular way to express individuality or make a joke that everyone can see. But occasionally they can create a big problem for the driver. When a car has no license plate, Jacksonville police write "No Tag" on the ticket.

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Banned Md. vanity plates include HEROIN; SUX2BU allowed - Baltimore Sun (blog)


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Banned Md. vanity plates include HEROIN; SUX2BU allowed
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Members of the public sometimes complain about vanity plates. Dacey says someone reported MEIRDA, a scatological word in Spanish. The agency reviewed it with the attorney general's office and decided to yank it. But the vehicle owner fought back; ...
KILLALL Might Not Make It on That Personalized License Plate in Maryland, But ... DCist.com

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New Md. license-plate censorship system broad, arbitrary - Daily Caller


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New Md. license-plate censorship system broad, arbitrary
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(AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file) The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration has banned more than 4000 phrases, words, and letter-number combinations from appearing on vanity license plates in the Free State. But the Baltimore Sun reports that the system is ...
Maryland Bans More Than 4000 Words From License Plates NBC4 Washington

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Maryland Is Cracking Down On Vanity Plate Humor - Jalopnik


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Maryland Is Cracking Down On Vanity Plate Humor
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At this point in our near daily coverage of witty vanity plates, our attention turns to the often overlooked Old Line State. Maryland Vehicle Administration officials managed to get several offensive or potentially offensive words stricken from the ...
4000 Words And Phrases Banned From Maryland License Plates CBS Local

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Banned license plate words in Md.: PIMP, TOILET - Washington Post (blog)

Banned license plate words in Md.: PIMP, TOILET
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Vanity plate censorship is apparently not a precise art. The Sun notes that the following words are allowed, and several, as you will see, have relationships to the banned words that may or may not be noted by Oxford English Dictionary: What would your ...

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The Virginia DMV Revoked Anti-Arab Vanity Tags - Jalopnik

The Virginia DMV Revoked Anti-Arab Vanity Tags
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Bujno's lawyer told the Virginian-Pilot that his vanity plates weren't meant as a racial insult, but as a show of unity with other troops who served or are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee didn't take his ...
Iraq war veteran fights to keep license plates Virginia deems offensive to Arabs Fox News

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DMV Offended by Vet's Vanity Plates - Military.com


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DMV Offended by Vet's Vanity Plates
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In general terms, Melanie Stokes explained, the DMV screens all requests for personalized tags to make sure they don't violate eight guidelines. One of the filters is whether the plate would disparage or offend people by ethnicity or race.
Chesapeake man appeals after DMV revokes plates The Virginian-Pilot

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Md. bans more than 4000 words for license plates; we can't tell you most of them - Washington Post

Md. bans more than 4000 words for license plates; we can't tell you most of them
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BALTIMORE — Maryland will gladly take $50 a year from residents who want vanity license plates. However, one can't put whatever one wants on a tag. There are more than 4000 words, phrases and letter-number combinations that the Motor Vehicle ...

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Law License Plates: 'I Object, Yo Honor!' - Above the Law


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Law License Plates: 'I Object, Yo Honor!'
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By Staci Zaretsky Based on the number of submissions we've received — please don't be offended if yours doesn't make the cut — it seems you're enjoying our Law License Plates series. Our last post on law-related vanity license plates was about one ...

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DMV's license plate stance is inconsistent - Statesman Journal

DMV's license plate stance is inconsistent
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The topic of that article was vanity plates and the screening process used by state officials to ensure that requests submitted for these plates did not contain anything “offensive.” The story mentioned that an individual (who was in the wine industry) ...

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