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Originally Posted by HarryT
Can you explain what you mean by "get your plates"? In the UK, the number plate (which I believe you call "license plate") is associated with the car, not its owner. Are the plates associated with the owner in the US? When a car is sold, its new owner puts new plates on it?
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In Georgia the plates used to stay with the car and the purchaser was supposed to register them after the sale. Some did not. I sold a 1986 Honda to a local preacher who bought it for his son. Two years later I get a letter from the city of Jacksonville Florida for over $200.00 worth of unpaid parking fines. The car was still showing as being registered to me. I called my ex father in law, he was the police Chief at the time, and explained it to him. He sent the City of Jacksonville a copy of my proof of sale and they sent the preacher the bill.
Now the tags stay with the seller and the new owner purchases a new tag. If the seller buys another vehicle, that year, he can register the new vehicle using the original plate.
Georgia does not issue a new tag every year. I do not remember whether it is every 5 or 10 years, that they issue new tags. Instead you get a sticker for the new year that is placed in the bottom right corner of the tag.
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