NYS liscence plate location?????

[JG503]

hello all my fellow buellers
I am from New York State and would like to relocate my license plate to my swing arm and was wondering if anyone had information on the rules/regulations/laws of moving your plate to any other location besides the stock one. I don't want to know if you heard it was illegal, or your buddy said.....I am looking for proof or for some one to tell me where to find it. I checked the NYS DMV and the NYS Department of Transportation. I have seen choppers with loud ass exhaust drawing attention from every one in a mile radius with their plates on the swing arm. I saw a custom built chopper with this right in a Yamaha dealers showroom floor with this, i don't think they would sell something that would get their customer in trouble but i could be wrong.

thanks, jason

 

[nativeXb12Rbuell]

look on the new york state website or your governers web site. in your states statues and law and regulations in your sates law libary online most every state has it all online now days easy looking up laws now days.

here

http://www.nysegov.com/citGuide.cfm?superCat=129
http://www.nysegov.com/citGuide.cfm?superCat=129&cat=150&content=main
http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menuf.cgi
http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/MENUGETF.cgi?COMMONQUERY=LAWS+&TARGET=VIEW


http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/L...BROWSER=EXPLORER+&TOKEN=28244064+&TARGET=VIEW here is vehicle laws!!

http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/L...BROWSER=EXPLORER+&TOKEN=28244064+&TARGET=VIEW motor vehicle & motorcycles...

and last but not least § 381. Motorcycle equipment..
http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/L...BROWSER=EXPLORER+&TOKEN=28244064+&TARGET=VIEW

 

[nativeXb12Rbuell]

display one lighted lamp in front and one on the rear, or,
when such motorcycle is operated with a passenger or other truck
attached to the side or front two such lamps on the front and one on the
rear; and in all cases the lamps on a motorcycle shall include a red
light visible from the rear. The rays of such rear lamp shall shine upon
the number plate carried on the rear of such motorcycle in such manner
as to render the numerals thereon visible for at least fifty feet in the
direction from which the motorcycle is proceeding.




and as for loudness of pipes it says.

11. No person shall operate a motorcycle on any highway which is: (1)
not equipped with a muffler to prevent excessive or unusual noise; (2)
equipped with a muffler from which the baffle plates, screens or other
original internal parts have been removed or altered; (3) equipped with
an exhaust device without internal baffles, known as "straight pipes";
or (4) equipped with an exhaust system that has been modified in a
manner that will amplify or increase the noise emitted by the motor of
such vehicle above that emitted by the exhaust system originally
installed on the vehicle.
12. No person shall operate a motorcycle on any highway which is
equipped with an exhaust device that is intentionally designed to allow
for the internal baffling to be fully or partially removed or
interchangeable. This subdivision shall not apply to a motorcycle
manufactured or assembled prior to nineteen hundred seventy-nine or a
motorcycle registered as a limited use vehicle or an all terrain vehicle
pursuant to article forty-eight-A or forty-eight-B of this chapter.
13. A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be
punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by
imprisonment for not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.

 

[JG503]

thanks a lot for the info!!!! i think im going to mount it vertically but if it will look good horizontally and not stick out that far i might go that route.

thanks again!

 

[nativeXb12Rbuell]

so with all that said from the NY laws it does not say where the license plate has to be , ONLY that it has to lighted up by on light to show all numbers and sticker tags for experation date.

it says
display one lighted lamp in front and one on the rear, or,
when such motorcycle is operated with a passenger or other truck
attached to the side or front two such lamps on the front and one on the
rear; and in all cases the lamps on a motorcycle shall include a red
light visible from the rear. The rays of such rear lamp shall shine upon
the number plate carried on the rear of such motorcycle in such manner
as to render the numerals thereon visible for at least fifty feet in the
direction from which the motorcycle is proceeding.



that may leave(a little) room for a judge or police officer room for interptation(but most police officer i dont think would know exactly what the laws says I would think they only look for big known violations or safety violations or traffic infractions for the most part), but you could argue and also interpretation it as it says that when you are riding in front of them they can see your plates from striaght behind you . that is how most would interpretation. it does not say that your plate has to be visible from any other angle or from the side veiws of the rear of the motorcycle.

 

[marnej]

Hi, I have a license plate like the fork, also in the Czech Republic is not so permitted, but cop has done no problem

 

[marnej]

Police after three years started making trouble, eventually a new license plate holder made on CNC alloy, thus better

 

[Cooter]

That's the first one of that style I actually like.

Bummer about the street sign sized plate, but it does look as good as it can

 

[marnej]

:up:thanks