ABATE of Florida, Inc. has been able to add an amendment to Senate Bill (SB) 1150, the Dept. of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles' Bill. This additional language changes the current statute 316.2085(3) to allow a tag that is perpendicular to the ground (with the numbers reading from top to bottom) to be permanently affixed to a motorcycle. It also removes the requirement for a pre-paid toll transponder.

The exact language of the proposed language is (underline is new language, strikethrough is deleted language):

316.2085 Riding on motorcycles or mopeds.
(3) The license tag of a motorcycle or moped must be permanently affixed to the vehicle and may not be adjusted or capable of being flipped up, inverted, reversed, or in any other way rendered to make the letters of the tag illegible from the rear while the vehicle is being operated. No device for or method of concealing Concealing or obscuring the legibility of the license tag of a motorcycle is prohibited shall be installed or used. The license tag of a motorcycle or moped may be affixed horizontally or vertically to the ground so that the numbers and letters read from left to right or from top to bottom. Alternatively, a license tag for a motorcycle or moped for which the numbers and letters read from top to bottom may be affixed perpendicularly to the ground, provided that the registered owner of the motorcycle or moped maintains a prepaid toll account in good standing and a transponder associated with the prepaid toll account is affixed to the motorcycle or moped.

This new language is not yet in effect; but is expected to become law in July 2011.

Brian "Seven" Lawson
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