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Originally Posted by maleficent
Plates don't follow the car. Plates stay with the owner. Every car I have sold over the last 20 years, i have kept the plates for. The new owner gets temporary plates when they register the car in their name.
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Well, I cannot say for absolute certain how CA handles plate transactions (sis hasn't gotten back to me) I would find it dubious that CA would handle things vastly differently than everyone else. In the four states i've had cars registered in (MA, VA, NY and MD) the plates are registered to a person. If that person sells the car, he/she turns the plates in. If the new buyer gets the vehicle he/she may place the plates they are currently using and re-register them onto the new car, or simply apply for new plates and put them on. Right this second I can think of two examples of why this CA thing seems wierd-- 1) if the vehicle comes from out of state, it will not have CA tags to transfer to the new person, and 2) if the selling owner has put custom (vanity) tags on the vehicle it seems logical that they would get them back to place on his/her new vehicle. BTW my Mass DMV resource informs me that the tickets follow the registration (plates) here, not the vehicle.