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Originally posted by ezrhthym
I DO NOT recommend to just remove one's plates and begin to travel in an auto unless you are prepared to handle a seizure (stop), kidnapping (arrest), and theft (towing), with a de jure plate or not.
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Of course. The plate is not important, it is merely notice of your jurisdiction. You could just as well go without since the exercise of your right does not require it. It won't matter either way if you encounter an ignorant LEO.
What
is important is proper documentation that the vehicle is unregistered. This includes:
Returning to the DMV the Certificate of Title (make a copy first) and the plates. These two items are state property which you no longer have use for. A Certificate of Title is equivalent to a title insurance policy and its sole purpose is to protect the lienholder, if any. It is not a title, that is the bill of sale. The copy of the COT is for your own use in case the legitimacy of the bill of sale is brought into question.
A concise affidavit stating the facts of your actions and a memorandum of law which authorizes you to do so. I would publish these two docs in the newspaper first and then the de jure county recorder, there are some counties that won't accept unauthorized docs.
Carry in your vehicle copies of the state COT, the bill of sale, the affidavit, the memorandum, the newspaper clippings and those from the recorder. From these docs there can be no doubt that your vehicle is not a motor vehicle required to be registered, but a private vehicle whose driver is exercising his fundamental right to travel in the normal conveyance of the day.
Having a drivers license is optional and doesn't affect your rights in a properly unregistered vehicle.
gldskr