Q: Hi Honk: I had Disabled Person License Plates installed on my vehicle some years ago. As a courtesy, AAA installed them for me and kept the obsolete plates stating they would be returned to the Department of Motor Vehicles. If I sell my vehicle, do I remove the plates and transfer them to my new vehicle? If so, do I sell my vehicle without plates, and what steps does the buyer of the vehicle need to do to obtain license plates?
– Jeanne Glass, Long Beach
A: Jeanne, if you do sell your ride, remove the plates. Katarina Snow, a DMV spokesperson, told Honk those with personalized or Special Interest plates — such as those honoring UCLA, 1960s-era plates, pets, museums — should do the same. That goes if you just transfer ownership of a vehicle, too.
“Though most vehicles have sequentially issued ‘standard’ license plates that remain with the vehicle when ownership is transferred, disabled-person, special-interest or personalized license plates belong to the plate owner, not the vehicle,” she said.
The new owner, left without plates, needs to get them by filling out what the DMV calls a REG 156 form. Just Google it, and that form will magically appear on your screen.
Honk has asked the DMV for more info and expects to provide Honkland with them next week.
Q: Can you tell me what is going on with the westbound 22 Freeway just before Glassell Street? It looks like they took the hillside and are making an extra lane. But if so, this won’t work as it will run into the pillar on the freeway just before Glassell, right?
– Myron R. Kanofsky, Irvine
A: The pillar is safe.
A lane is being extended from Glassell to the Cambridge Street bridge, said Sheilah Fortenberry, a Caltrans spokesperson.
During the $6.9 million project, a retaining wall is getting reconstructed to move and lengthen it and to meet current building codes.
“No pillars or columns will be affected,” she said.
Q: Dear Honk: We had Disabled Person License Plates that start with the letters DP. I was behind a car with plates that started with the letters DV. How do they differ?
– Bob Herrmann, Rancho Mission Viejo
A: Those who have those DV plates are extra special folks.
They are Disabled Veteran License Plates and allow such things as parking in disabled-person parking slots or next to a blue curb.
To qualify for them takes a veteran who, while in the U.S. Armed Forces, suffered a permanent, substantial disability because of an injury or a disease that hampers mobility.
With these plates, registration and license fees, God bless America, are waived.
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