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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
They are in the electronic database for 10 years.
They time out and drop off after that, which is when you provide the officer the "blue slip" from the Secretary of State describing how the system works.
No one has said anything about it yet but it seems to me that we are in the same situation with trailer plates and any other non-expiring registrations.
K
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No, not from what I understand Keith, at least for the year of auto antique plate. If you notice, when you apply for a year of auto plate, the application goes to a private contractor hired by the State of Michigan DMV. They maintain those records and they are not comingled with the rest of the DMV records.
If you get stopped by a LEO and he does a check on your plate, it won't show up as a valid licensed auto. I've been stopped twice for a supposed invalid plate, even though I had a valid and current registration, but it didn't show up in DMV records. This was on a car that I had just licensed the year before.
The only way they could verify it was to contact the outside contractor.
Screwy system, but it is what it is. I'm not sure if the same thing holds for the regular antique plate, but it is the situation for the year of car plates.