Policy Text
MOUNTAIN VIEW POLICE DEPARTMENT
SPECIAL SERVICES SECTION
TRAINING AND INFORMATION
BULLETIN
PAGE 1 OF 1
2024
DATE: July 4, 2024
BULLETIN NUMBER: 24 - 05
SUBJECT: Legal Update - Expired Registration Enforcement
Restriction
INFORMATION:
This training bulletin provides a legal update for enforcement of Vehicle Codes
4000(a)1, 5204, and 40225. Effective July 1, 2024, Assembly Bill 256 has restricted enforcement of Vehicle registration violations for a two- month period after expiration.
This amendment to the vehicle codes above, only restricts enforcement of the violation
as a “sole basis” for detention. Officers who observe other violations and stop the vehicle in question may still enforce the registration prior to two months passing. I n
order to lawfully conduct an enforcement stop, an example would be would be a
vehicle displaying May 2024 registration tabs with a DMV record showing May 3rd
expiration on July 3rd. See the below copy of the Assembly Bill.
AB 256, Dixon. Vehicles: registration. Existing law requires current month and year tabs, indicating the month and year of expiration of a vehicle’s registration, to be attached to the rear license plate assigned to the vehicle for the last preceding registration year in which the licensed plat es were
issued. Under existing law, a vehicle that fails to display current month and year tabs or display expired tabs is in violation of law. Existing law prohibits a person from driving, moving, or leaving standing upon a highway, or in an off -street pu blic parking facility,
any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole or pipe dolly, or logging dolly, unless it is registered and the appropriate fees have been paid, except as specified.
This bill would, commencing July 1, 2024, until January 1, 2030, prohibit a violation of these provisions from being the sole basis for any enforcement action before the 2nd month after the month of expiration of the vehicle’s registration. Notwithstanding this provision, the bill would authorize enforcement action before the 2nd month following
the month of expiration if a vehicle is stopped for any other violation of the Vehicle
Code.
Prepared by: Sgt. Goff
Approved by: Lt. Maldonado