[Healeys] Out of State registration
ahy3000 at comcast.net
ahy3000 at comcast.net
Fri Jun 13 05:17:12 MDT 2008
Works the same way in Taxachusetts, er, Massachusetts. Lots of folks register cars in New Hampshire and park 'em in Massachusetts. Once in a while the "border towns" like Lowell crack down and generate a lot of revenue.
Your mileage may vary.............
--
Burt Weiner
'63 BJ7
HBJ7L/23582
ahy3000 at comcast.net
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Editorgary at aol.com
> In a message dated 6/12/08 11:08:51 AM, healeys-request at autox.team.net
> writes:
>
>
> > The only issue that ever came up was with auto insurance. It seems that
> > federal law requires that a policy be written per the state requirements for
> > the state where the car is registered, not where the owner lives or garages
> the
> > auto. So, if you can use a friend's address as your CA "address" for
> > purposes of the policy, but have any related insurance mail sent to your KY
> > address, you should be fine, as far as my experience goes.
> >
> I realize this is an old posting, but just a note that the Land of Lincoln
> folks may not mind a California reg with an Illinois address, but it does NOT
> work the opposite way. Our local constabulary out here in California gets
> concerned with out-of-state tags on cars parked in their local driveways,
> since a
> main source of local revenue is the half of the vehicle reg fees that are
> passed
> on to the local jurisdiction. More than once, my journalist friends -- who
> regularly drive press cars with out-of-state plates -- have been followed into
> their own driveways by their local police, who were prepared to ticket them
> and
> impound the car for illegal registration.
> Just sayin'
> Cheers
> gary
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