Russia wants to toughen punishment for drivers who hide car license plates

State Duma deputies adopted a bill in the first reading that would deprive drivers of their licenses for up to one and a half years for driving a car with hidden license plates. This is punishable by a fine of five thousand rubles or deprivation of the right to drive a car for one to three months.

The explanatory note to the bill states that it is proposed to “strengthen measures of administrative responsibility for administrative offenses related to driving a vehicle with state registration plates, equipped with the use of devices that prevent their identification or allow them to be modified or hidden, by assigning them to a special composition and establishing administrative punishment in the form of deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a period of one to one and a half years with confiscation of the specified devices.”

Repeated violations will only result in rights deprivation for one to one and a half years. According to the State Duma website, similar liability will be imposed for repeated driving of a vehicle without state signs.

Author: Ksenia Kalinina