It's just the city of New Haven at this point. They have a really
overzealous tax collector there that has been busting balls for the last few
years. A few years ago he bought several expensive "Plate Finder" systems
and had them mounted in city tow trucks. The trucks cruise around the city
and cameras mounted on the front fenders captures images of the plates on
the back of parked cars. The computer in the cab compares the plate with the
city's tax database and if the registered owner has overdue property taxes,
an alert will sound so they can boot or even tow the car depending on the
amount owed. It won't get released until the taxes are paid in full. Now
they're planning on going after vehicles registered out of state but are
stored within the city limits. It sounded like they were seeing trends, like
vehicles with an out of states plate parked in front on the same address for
what they deemed an excessive number of days. State law is if you relocate
to the state you have to register your vehicle in CT within 30 days Not sure
on that time span, could even be 2 weeks, but 30 days sounds right.
Definitely not more than that though. The problem I see with New Haven's
plan is the city is also the home of "Yale University" and a large number of
students live off-campus. There are a lot of legit out of state plates in
that town since out of state students are not required to re-register their
vehicles in CT.
This is the same city that started a program last year to issue city ID
cards to illegal immigrants. They can walk in the just a piece of mail with
their address and get an ID for a small fee.
Walt
-----Original Message-----
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:56:19 -0400
From: Don Rey <radon220@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: DML: MT LLC
I just saw a news story in CT saying they're cracking down on
"illegal" out-of-state registrations here. They want to make sure
they're getting their fair (ha!) share of taxes if you store and drive
your vehicles mainly in CT (the registration fee is just another tax,
afterall).
Sounds like more and more people were finding this a good way to lower
costs. And the state said "hell no"
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