ST. GEORGE — Personalized licenses plates (for now), emissions test “cheaters” and the current way new license plates are approved may all be things of the past, as a result of a bill that’s now halfway through the legislative process.
The Utah House of Representatives on Tuesday passed HB 368, which would shift the responsibility from the Legislature to the Utah Governor’s Office or Department of Motor Vehicles. Rep. Norman Thurston, R-Provo, the bill’s sponsor, calls it “the bill to end all license plate bills.”
The bill would also place a moratorium on any personalized plates and would allow a county to require an emissions inspection of a vintage vehicle under certain circumstances — mostly people who use vintage plates to dodge emissions testing requirements, according to Thurston.
It passed the House on Tuesday with a 49-19 vote after it passed the House Transportation Committee with a 9-1 vote on Friday.
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Written by CARTER WILLIAMS, KSL.com.
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