Expired Inspection Sticker

[onesentient]

Hello...I have an expired inspection sticker on my car and was wondering what a police officer could/would do if I was approached for this? I live in Maine, and I have searched the state statutes, but cannot find a statute on 'expired inspection sticker'! I did read a statute that stated that a police officer, if he felt your vehicle was unsafe, could have it towed to an inspection station (and I think this meant whether the car had a valid sticker or not). Anyone live in Maine that may know about this? Thankyou!

[ezrhythm]

Here in the California Republic you get a "fix it" ticket.

[quasimodo]

Here in Texas. (or anywhere else for that matter)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856

EXPIRATION.
Cessation; end. As, the expiration of, a lease, of a contract, or statute.
2. In general, the expiration of a contract puts an end to all the engagements of the parties, except to those which arise from the non−fulfilinent of obligations created during its existence. For example, the expiration of a partnership so dissolves it, that the parties cannot in general create any new liability, but it still subsists, to enable the parties to fulfil engagements in which the partners have engaged, or to compel others to perform their obligations towards them. See Dissolution; Contracts.
3. When a statute is limited as to time, it expires by mere lapse of time, and then it has no force whatever; and, if such a statute repealed or supplied a former statute, the first statute is, i so facto, revived by the expiration of the repealing statute; 6 Whart. 294; 1 Bland, R. 664 unless it appear that such was not the intention of the legislature.
3 East, 212 Bac. Ab. Statute, D.

The American Heritage Dictionary

1. To come to an end; terminate
2. To breathe one's last breath; die:
3. To exhale; breathe out.

Let it R.I.P.