Here is a link to see the fines and penalties for late registration. The DMV doesn’t conduct enforcement efforts for expired tags but if you’re caught, you’ll face a fine and penalties. If a city police or California Highway Patrol officer sees expired tags on a vehicle, they can, and will, ticket it. “Besides the need for justice, why is the state not interested in getting revenue from overdue registrations and the fines and fees that would go with them? I understand that law enforcement officers have more pressing matters needing their attention, but couldn’t parking enforcement personnel, police Explorers, or somebody go around with license plate scanners and report these scofflaws?”Ī: The Department of Motor Vehicles isn’t responsible for enforcing registration violations, that’s law enforcement’s job. Nine were within two months of being expired, seven had 2018 stickers on them and one had a sticker from 2017, he said. Of the 300 vehicles he counted, he said 31 had expired tags. Haessler of Temecula said he finds it “remarkable” how many California vehicle owners don’t renew their registrations, “and how little law enforcement seems to care about enforcing the law.” Haessler said he recently walked a few parking lots on County Center Drive in Temecula.
