Judge stripped of his robe for driving with false license plates

Fine for installing false (fake, not from your car) license plates

So, you and I understand that there are many cases in which the driver can put numbers that he got from out of nowhere. Reasoning about this can be gleaned from the first paragraph of our article. But law enforcement agencies, first of all, look at the root of the problem, so to speak, consider the worst option. They will not understand that the driver wanted the best, but it turned out as always! All this is motivated, because often cars with fake license plates are used to commit any criminal acts. That is why the fine for such a seemingly insignificant offense at first glance is quite significant. As we have already said, Article 12.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (parts 3 and 4) provides for two options. First for installation, this is part 3

Installation of knowingly false state registration plates on a vehicle - entails the imposition of an administrative fine on citizens in the amount of 2,500 rubles; for officials responsible for the operation of vehicles - from 15,000 to 20,000 rubles; for legal entities - from 400,000 to 500,000 rubles.

Note: that is, the person did not even go anywhere, but simply installed false license plates on his car and will already have to pay a significant fine.

Proving innocence of violating a double car

The driver will have to convincingly prove his innocence. If you are sure that another car committed the violation, pay attention to the details, prepare visual evidence, present high-quality video and photographs of your car, and point out differences in appearance.

Try to collect information about the location of your car at the time the administrative offense was committed; perhaps it was under cameras in a guarded parking lot or came into view of an office surveillance camera, try to collect all possible information. Testimony of witnesses who can reliably report that the car could not have been at the place where the violation was committed at the time specified in the resolution.

Fine for driving (driving) with false (fake, not from your car) license plates

The second option is when a fine is imposed for driving with false license plates.

Driving a vehicle with knowingly false state registration plates entails deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a period of 6 months to 1 year.

Note: This is a case where a driver was caught driving a car with false license plates while driving it.

Please note that if it turns out that the driver installed and then also drove a car with false signs, then this can be qualified as two offenses (installed and drove). In this case, there will be a fine and deprivation of your driver's license.

If you receive a fine from a duplicate car

You look at the photo and clearly see your license plates, but the car is different. Most likely, the offender made duplicates, and now you may receive fines constantly. In such a situation there are 2 ways out.

Write a statement to initiate a criminal case regarding the possible production of false registration plates and appeal the fine

In such a situation, there is no need to wait for a printed copy of the resolution; from the moment you find your registration number on someone else’s car in the electronic service, you need to print out a photo of the offender, a photo of your vehicle and make copies of documents for the car.

Having collected a package of documents, go to the nearest police department and write a statement. Save the notification slip that your application has been accepted. Make the same complaint as in case of an erroneous fine and attach a copy of the notification coupon, which will confirm the fact of contacting law enforcement agencies.

If criminal proceedings are initiated, you will be informed of the results. As a result, the fine will be canceled or the complaint will be rejected.

Write an application, a complaint about a fine from a duplicate car and change the license plates

If such fines come regularly, you will have to appeal each one; there is no need to go to the police again. In such a situation, we recommend changing numbers. The cost of the procedure is a little less than 3,000 rubles; for this amount, the registration number of the vehicle will be replaced and all changes will be made to the documents for the car.

If you ignore fines from cameras from a duplicate car, the likelihood that criminals will continue to use your license plates for their own purposes increases. Amazing fines will appear all the time, and you will have to appeal each case individually.

Is it possible to pay a fine for rooms with a 50 percent discount?

Installing false signs, as well as driving a car with them, is a fairly significant offense; in addition, Article 12.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, parts 3 and 4, does not provide for warnings, which means it is unlikely that it will be possible to avoid a fine through legal means. However, there are alternatives to paying the fine. Since January 2021, the Russian government has made some concessions for drivers who are conscious of their misconduct. So, according to Article 32.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, many car fines can now be paid with a 50 percent discount. In this case, such a violation falls under this article, that is, it is possible to pay the fine with a 50 percent discount.

When will criminal liability apply?

Please note that it is the person who falsified the license plate - that is, the one who made it - who is punished under criminal liability. The driver driving the car at the moment, even if he is the owner of this car, cannot be automatically recognized as a criminal and punished for fictitious license plates - it is necessary to prove that he was the one who drew on, painted over or otherwise falsified the registration plates. Although, a criminal case may still be opened against him.

There is a separate article for driving with false signs - part 4 of article 12.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses provides for the deprivation of rights from six months to a year specifically for driving. And part 3 of the same article prescribes a fine of 2,500 rubles for installing false signs on a car.

Thus, we have 3 types of punishments associated with fictitious registration marks:

Driving with fake license plates may result in deprivation of your license,
for installing fake signs on a car - a fine,
but for the fact of counterfeiting to a person who touched up, erased, changed the license plate number for the purpose of further driving the car or selling it, this is already a criminal article.

Questions and answers on the topic “Fine for false license plates (fake, not from your car)”

Question: What is the penalty for installing false license plates on a car? Answer: If this is a private person, then the fine is 2,500 rubles, for legal entities up to 500,000 rubles

Question: What punishment is provided for driving a vehicle with false state license plates? Answer: Revocation of a driver's license for up to 1 year.

Question: Can a fine and deprivation of a driver’s license be applied at the same time when installing license plates and when driving a vehicle? Answer: Yes, they can. These are two separate violations!

Regular drunk driving

For persons convicted of driving a vehicle while intoxicated and caught committing a similar crime, it is proposed to establish a more severe punishment. The new edition will set out Article 264.1 of the Criminal Code. The changes will affect part two, which establishes increased penalties for violating traffic rules.

The need for changes is determined by statistics according to which the number of cases of drunk driving remains at a high level. In addition, a significant number of facts of repeated crimes are recorded by persons who already have a criminal record for them. However, the repetition of such crimes does not entail stricter liability for the perpetrators.

The authors of the bill provide statistics:

In the Kaliningrad region, citizen Ch. in 2021 committed 14 crimes under Article 264.1 of the Criminal Code, for which he was convicted 4 times;
In the Astrakhan region, citizen K. was brought to justice three times from 2021 to 2021 under Article 264.1 of the Criminal Code;
Citizen V. appeared twice in court in the Amur region in 2021 for 7 crimes.

“The imposition of a more severe punishment will be ensured by increasing the terms of imprisonment and forced labor (up to three years instead of the currently established up to two years), the amount of the fine (from three hundred to five hundred thousand instead of from two hundred to three hundred thousand rubles or in the amount of wages or other income of the convicted person for a period of two to three years instead of one to two years), as well as the exclusion of punishment in the form of compulsory work,” the deputies say.

It also provides for an increase in the term of additional punishment in the form of deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to six years instead of the established up to three years.

Common ways to hide a number

When it comes to questions of how to circumvent the law without breaking it, any science fiction writer will envy Russian ingenuity. In hiding car license plates from surveillance cameras, the “talents” of our compatriots flourish in an astonishing variety:

Pasting several numbers or letters of a number
Adding one letter, for example, C to O, using black adhesive tape, or, conversely, painting over the black stripes with white paint
Installation of curtains that partially or completely cover the room
Attaching someone else's number to magnets
Installation of a design that allows you to turn the number over with the back side
Covering the number with dirt
Gluing a “random” piece of paper over the number
Pinching of a cleaning cloth by the hood lid, “accidentally” covering part of the front license plate, while at the back, the license plate reliably hides the road pole to which the car is parked closely

And this is only a small part of the countless number of inventions used only to ensure that surveillance cameras cannot identify the license plate, since the inspector will easily establish the “original” license plates of the car, under any cunning disguise.

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What are the dangers of driving with false license plates?

When they lose their license plate, some drivers resort to using license plates from other vehicles (they ask them from friends or take them from their other car).

The likelihood of such a vehicle being stopped by police officers is lower, however, if such fraud is discovered, this will lead to serious problems (Article 12.2, paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Administrative Code):

fine for an individual – 2500 rubles;
an official driving a vehicle with someone else's license plate will pay from 15 to 25 thousand rubles;
companies and enterprises will be fined from 400 thousand to half a million rubles.

Additionally, traffic police officers have the right to confiscate the driver’s license from the violator or deprive the right to drive a vehicle for up to a year.

Main reasons for concealment

Apart from serious crime, the most common reasons are three:

Transfer responsibility for your traffic violations to another person
Avoid fines for free use of paid street parking
The need to drive a car without license plates along a road with cameras and traffic police posts

Unlike the second and third points, the first is not so harmless. Offenders use the Internet to find a duplicate car, somewhere far from their city, and put its license plates on their car. And the unsuspecting owner soon unexpectedly receives many thousands of fines, non-involvement of which has to be proven for a long time in various authorities, and he has to document his absence at a given time in a given place, which is always quite difficult, time-consuming and costs a lot of nerves.

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In addition, such a forgery is detected only during face-to-face verification of documents and numbers. And as long as the injured driver does not file a lawsuit, violators can safely drive around with someone else’s license plates. And if they are found, they will take away their driver’s license for a period of six months to a year, for evading administrative punishment under the fourth part of Article 12.2, Code of Administrative Offences, and not imprisonment for 2 years, under Article 326 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, when the commission, facilitation or concealing a crime using forged license plates, or selling a stolen car.

The last two reasons fit very organically into the Russian mentality, which combines the permanent desire for freebies and, sitting in every second, Foki - a jack of all trades.

However, being touched by talent - putting together anything on your knees - does not exempt the home-grown Kulibins from legal retribution in the event of a proven offense.

Procedure for losing your number

The loss of a license plate is usually not discovered immediately after the incident. Most often, drivers discover that the sign is lost after returning to the garage or parking lot.

The reasons for the loss are:

Driver driving fast;
Poor road surface, as a result of which license plates fall out of their fastenings;
Theft for the purpose of further return for a reward.

The absence of one or both numbers is considered driving without license plates and falls under Article 12.2 of the Administrative Code. Accordingly, the problem of losing a number on a vehicle must be resolved as quickly as possible.

The only correct option is to contact the traffic police department where the vehicle was registered with a statement about the loss of the state number. The submitted application is the basis for re-registration of the vehicle. The driver receives new license plates and a vehicle registration certificate.

Do not try:

1. Contact companies that offer to produce duplicate numbers. The problem is resolved quite quickly, but there remains a risk of scammers using the lost number. In addition, driving a vehicle with duplicate license plates is a violation, with all the ensuing consequences in the form of a fine.

2. Remove the license plate from the rear, move it to the front and continue driving. With a license plate in front, you can only get to the garage or traffic police department. Driving without a second license plate is prohibited.

Signs of violation of license plate installation on a car.

When considering cases of administrative offenses provided for in Part 2 of Article 12.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, it is necessary to take into account that the objective side of this administrative offense, in particular, is formed by the actions of a person driving a vehicle:

without state registration plates (including without one of them),

in the presence of state registration plates installed in violation of the requirements of the state standard in places not provided for by the design of the vehicle (including only one of them),

with state registration plates modified or equipped with the use of devices or materials that impede the identification of state registration plates or allow them to be modified or hidden (including only one of them), including cases when such devices or materials were not used at the time the vehicle was stopped to modify or hide state registration marks (including only one of them).

It is also indicated that the mere presence of a device that hides a state license plate or part of it is already a sufficient condition for punishment; it is not necessary that at the moment of stopping the device for hiding the license plate was activated. Such devices are usually curtains that cover the registration plate at speed.

Fine for non-working license plate lights

Let's consider a situation where one or more license plate lighting bulbs do not work (do not light up), or non-standard license plate lighting bulbs are installed...

What a fine or deprivation of rights for “white license plates” - applying a special concealing film to the license plate.

A modified state registration plate is a state registration plate issued for a given vehicle, in which changes have been made that distort the symbols applied to it, either one of them (for example, by gluing), or a state registration plate, the installation method of which prevents its reading and identification (in particular, by turning over the plate of the state registration plate).

The position of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation regarding modified license plates is as follows: if changes have been made to the license plate (for example, the paint has been erased from all or part of the symbols), or the license plate is fixed in such a way that it is difficult to read (at an angle to the road surface, or upside down), then such license plates are considered modified. Obviously, this also includes gluing a special film onto the registration plate plates, which prevents photography by means of photographic recording of administrative offenses.

Can I be fined for having a license plate covered in snow during a blizzard or snowfall? No.

Various mechanisms, devices, devices and other equipment (curtains, electromagnets, etc., including when they were not listed) can be regarded as devices or materials that prevent the identification of state registration plates or allow them to be modified or hidden into effect at the time of detection of an administrative offense, but allowed the driver, when performing certain actions, to modify or hide the state registration plate), as well as artificial materials (for example, sheets of paper, cardboard) or natural materials (in particular, foliage, dirt, snow), if a visual inspection of the vehicle allows us to clearly conclude that they were applied to make it difficult or impossible to identify state registration plates (for example, contamination of a fragment of a state registration plate is not related to weather conditions or is not caused by a movement process that allows self-contamination). Evidence of the use of certain devices (materials) for these purposes can be, for example, a video recording (photograph) made by an authorized official during the detection of an administrative offense, which is attached to the materials of the case of an administrative offense and is subject to assessment according to the rules of Article 26.11 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.

So, this is the clarification of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the punishment for deliberately concealing the license plate number of a car when driving it. As can be seen from the text of the resolution, a situation where the license plate of a car is covered with snow due to driving during a snowfall and similar situations cannot be an intentional concealment. You cannot issue a fine for dirty license plates if you are driving on a dirty road in the rain, and the license plate could become dirty spontaneously. At the same time, if the license plate of the car is covered with dirt, and the driver explains to the traffic police officer that the day before yesterday he drove along a dirty road, such an explanation is unlikely to be accepted, since the driver had the opportunity to clean the license plates from dirt.

Penalty for unreadable dirty car plates for 2021. Can it be eliminated on the spot?

The fine for unreadable registration plates is regulated by Art. 12.2 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.