Vehicle owners who display unnecessary or unauthorised names, emblems, association names of government departments and boards on their registration plates should get ready to pay fines as the Transport Department is preparing to crack down on them. This follows a circular passed by the State government on May 19.
The rule also applies to unauthorised names and emblems of non-governmental organisations on number plates. Although these rules have been in place for a few years now, the department plans to get more stringent with the enforcement henceforth.
“There has been a court order as well as government order regarding this. Displaying such unnecessary and unauthorised names, emblems, and other things on number plates is contrary to Rules 50, 51 of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules 1989 and Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act 1950,” said T.H.M. Kumar, Commissioner for Transport and Road safety, at a press conference here on Thursday.
