HLS 24RS-434 ORIGINAL
2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 345
BY REPRESENTATIVE BOYD
MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES: Requires a license plate on the front of a motor vehicle
for identification purposes
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 32:53(A)(3) and to enact R.S. 32:1(111), relative to display of
3 permanent registration license plates; to require front license plates to be displayed
4 on motor vehicles; to direct the office of motor vehicles to promulgate administrative
5 rules and regulations necessary to implement certain provisions of law; to direct the
6 Louisiana State Law Institute to make certain technical changes; and to provide for
7 related matters.
8Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
9 Section 1. R.S. 32:53(A)(3) is hereby amended and reenacted and R.S. 32:1(111) is
10hereby enacted to read as follows:
11 §1. Definitions
12 When used in this Chapter, the following words and phrases have the
13 meanings ascribed to them in this Section, unless the context clearly indicates a
14 different meaning:
15 * * *
16 (111) "Permanent registration license plate" means a numbered identification
17 plate displayed on both the front and rear of motor vehicles that contains a current
18 registration sticker.
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1 §53. Proper equipment required on vehicles; display of plate
2 A.
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4 (3) Every permanent registration license plate shall at all times be securely
5 fastened to the vehicle on both the front and the rear of the vehicle to which it is
6 assigned, so as to prevent the plate from swinging, and at a height not less than
7 twelve inches from the ground, measuring from the bottom of such plate, in a place
8 and position to be clearly visible, and shall be maintained free from foreign materials
9 and in a condition to be clearly legible. Unless authorized by the commissioner, a
10 person shall not apply a covering or any substance to the license plate or use an
11 electronic device or electrochromatic film that obscures from any angle the numbers,
12 characters, year registration sticker, or name of the jurisdiction issuing the plate.
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14 Section 2. The Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of motor
15vehicles, shall promulgate administrative rules and regulations as may be necessary to
16implement the provisions contained in this Act.
17 Section 3. The Louisiana State Law Institute is directed to alphabetize and renumber
18the terms defined in R.S. 32:1 as amended by the provisions of this Act.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 345 Original 2024 Regular Session Boyd
Abstract: Requires the display of every permanent registration license plate on the front
of a motor vehicle. Adds a definition of "permanent registration license plate".
Proposed law defines "permanent registration license plate" to include front and rear display
of plates.
Present law requires every permanent registration license plate to be securely fastened to the
vehicle to which it is assigned and to be clearly visible and legible.
Proposed law retains present law and adds a requirement that every permanent registration
license plate be displayed on both the front and rear of the vehicle.
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Directs the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections, office of motor vehicles, to promulgate
administrative rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this Act.
Directs the La. State Law Institute to alphabetize and renumber the definitions in present law
(R.S. 32:1) as amended by the provisions of this Act.
(Amends R.S. 32:53(A)(3); Adds R.S. 32:1(111))
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