- But they are getting censored now, and appeals have been denied so far.
I f you haven’t read Maine Drivers Want the Right to Any License Plates They Want: Part One, visit the link. Because this is part two.
For a state known as Iconic and even-tempered, these residents sported uncensored plates reading F*#% “snow,” “haters” and even “ALS.”
After “choices”spun out of control the Maine Legislature directed the Bureau of Motor Vehicles worked to reestablish a system for vetting the states 120,000 or so vanity license plates. They made new rules.
The new rules ban references to age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion or disability. You also cannot use language to incite violence or anything considered obscene on your license plate.
“We have a public interest in keeping phrases and words that are profane or may incite violence off the roadways,” she said.
She says that most motorists have given up their objectionable license plates without a fight but also notes that there has been 13 appeals. She also says there could be more.
Denied appeals can be taken to the Supreme Court by motorists, but so far, no one has taken that step.
For Starostecki, the vegan referenced at the beginning of this article, he was offered another license plate. One had become available that reads “V3GAN.” He decided he was done with vanity plates though.
He states that he’s waiting for a new and boring license plate, issued by the state.
Libby, who had to lose her B-word plate, instead got a custom plate to celebrate her dog Zeus. She named him after the mythical God of Thunder.
“That could be offensive to someone because it’s a Greek god,” she quipped. “But I hope not.”
“It’s not safe for parents or grandparents to play the license plate game with their kids in Maine anymore,” Bellows said. “You can’t escape the proliferation of the f-word and worse.”
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