Vehicle Code § 5204

Tabs indicating month and year of expiration

(a) Except as provided by subdivisions (b) and (c), a tab shall indicate the year of expiration and a tab shall indicate the month of expiration. Current month and year tabs shall be attached to the rear license plate assigned to the vehicle for the last preceding registration year in which license plates were issued, and, when so attached, the license plate with the tabs shall, for the purposes of this code, be deemed to be the license plate, except that truck tractors, and commercial motor vehicles having a declared gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more, shall display the current month and year tabs upon the front license plate assigned to the truck tractor or commercial motor vehicle. Vehicles that fail to display current month and year tabs or display expired tabs are in violation of this section.

(b) The requirement of subdivision (a) that the tabs indicate the year and the month of expiration does not apply to fleet vehicles subject to Article 9.5 (commencing with Section 5301) or vehicles defined in Section 468.

(c) Subdivision (a) does not apply when proper application for registration has been made pursuant to Section 4602 and the new indicia of current registration have not been received from the department.

(d) This section is enforceable against any motor vehicle that is driven, moved, or left standing upon a highway, or in an offstreet public parking facility, in the same manner as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 4000.

History

Enacted Stats 1959 ch 3. Amended Stats 1963 ch 150 § 1; Stats 1973 ch 889 § 33, effective September 26, 1973; Stats 1976 ch 908 § 1; Stats 1978 ch 768 § 2, operative October 1, 1979; Stats 1980 ch 784 § 1; Stats 1983 ch 986 § 1; Stats 1987 ch 282 § 1; Stats 1992 ch 258 § 2 (SB 133); Stats 1994 ch 27 § 60 (AB 2018), effective March 30, 1994; Stats 1997 ch 945 § 14 (AB 1561); Stats 2000 ch 135 § 155 (AB 2539), ch 861 § 32 (SB 2084), effective September 29, 2000; Stats 2017 ch 397 § 1 (SB 810), effective January 1, 2018.

License Tabs