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April 22, 2009 05:21 PM Wednesday Article read 298 time(s) No plate, no travel drive in high gear By: Alfred P. Dalizon MAMANG PULIS -- PNP chief Director General Jesus A. Verzosa has asked motorists to be aware of a new Land Transportation Office administrative order pertaining to the placement and installation of commemorative plates as well as the government’s “no plate, no travel” policy.
The LTO last year declared that the commemorative plate “shall not be superimposed over the regular plates.”
“With this order, the original LTO-issued car plates must remain visible in the front and rear of the vehicle at all times,” Verzosa said
He explained that commemorative plates shall be installed in front of a motor vehicle either at the right side or left side of the regular plate as the regular plate shall be maintained in the space provided for the purpose.
Verzosa said no commemorative plate shall be installed at the rear of a motor vehicle as placing the commemorative plate at the rear of a motor vehicle will be strictly prohibited and penalized accordingly.
He also said that the commemorative sticker must be pasted in the upper right hand corner or the front windshield while the regular LTO windshield validating sticker must be pasted at the left upper side of the front windshield.
“I am warning all vehicle owners to follow this new LTO order. The original LTO-issued car plates must remain visible in the front and rear of the car or SUV at all times. Also included in the prohibition is the use of any kind of material to cover the car license plates,” Mabutas said as he ordered his men to accost drivers of vehicles sporting commemorative and vanity plates “PPSA,” “PNPA,” “PGH,” “KALINGA,” “PROSECUTOR,” “COUNCILOR,” and “UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES,” among others, if they are not displayed properly.
Dozens of policemen and civilians have already been accosted inside the PNP national headquarters for driving vehicles sporting expired LTO commemorative plates, with delinquent LTO registration, those with colored plastic covers and those without license plates.
Driving a vehicle without license plates carries an LTO fine of P110 and another P150 fine from the Metro Manila Development Authority. The vehicle is also impounded until the owner presents the original LTO certificate of registration and official receipt.
PNP spokesman Chief Supt. Nicanor A. Bartolome said the PNP is also cracking down on drivers of vehicles with no plates, tinted-colored-covered plates, fake plates, stolen plates and unauthorized and or expired plates due to rising reports of incidents of robbery and killings perpetrated by suspects using motor vehicles without plates and or fake or stolen plates.
He added that policemen in the field have also been ordered to accost motorcycle riders without helmets and those whose backriders are not wearing one.
He said PNP and Armed Forces personnel are not exempted from the campaign, citing cases of soldiers and policemen apprehended by members of the PNP Base Police inside Camp Crame for driving motorcycles without helmets.




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