Date:         Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:57:06 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: 88 Vanagon FS: Last Update
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Non-opped is registered. The reg the guy quoted on his page specifically
says 'unlicensed', and he said he couldn't get a sticker because it wouldn't
smog. Here, you can still be 'registered', which is 'licensed' without
passing smog, you just won't get a sticker and be legal for the road.
Sure the local gov'ts can have nuisance laws covering location and condition
and so on but the vehicle code itself is the province of the state and the
locals can't add to it.
Your brother has to conform to the nuisance laws but if the statute
specifically says 'unregistered' as the bureau-idiot said then the law is
actually supporting him. He should find out exactly what the code says and
pin the guy down on his mistake if that's the case.

Cya,
Robert


On 3/13/08, John Bange <jbange@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just re-read your page and I'm curious about something. Here in
> > California, the land of the allegedly Draconian DMV and such, you could,
> > in
> > your situation, either pay the registration and non-op the vehicle
> without
> > smogging it,...you pay the registration and
> > you therefore have a 'legal vehicle', whether it's operable or not.
> > You can't do the same in Ohio?
> >
>
> You can't always do that in California either.  The state allows it, but
> individual municipalities have varying local regs. My brother has a non-op
> 280ZX Turbo in the paved side yard under a cover behind a chain-link fence
> at the house he rents in Simi Valley. A nosy city goon had previously
> warned
> him they'd tow it for being unregistered after he left it in the driveway
> uncovered. They still knock on the door asking to see under the cover to
> check if its the same car and still unregistered, but he and his roommate
> both say it belongs to a third party living there, and that if they REALLY
> want to know, why don't they TRESPASS then DAMAGE PRIVATE PROPERTY cutting
> the lock off the cover to find out. They always go away grumbling. The
> "funny" part is that across the street a guy has a car body UP ON BLOCKS
> in
> his driveway with no plates, much less registered. It's really about his
> landlord being unpopular with certain city officials, but the rules are
> still there...
>
> --
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
>