Moscow authorities will fight against drivers who remove license plates from cars to avoid paying for parking

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Today, in parking lots you can regularly see vehicles with their identification marks removed. The traffic police service is desperately fighting this, but so far to no avail. The larger the metropolis, the more such drivers you can meet. Those who don’t like to pay still strive to leave their cars without license plates in paid parking.

Will they take it or not?

The question arises, is it really legal to take away a vehicle? Based on current legislation, it is prohibited to take the car. However, it can be evacuated “on a general basis.” Especially from places where a large number of people are constantly present. This is being done because of the fight against terrorism. The unidentified car, like another unidentified object, is evacuated.

So why do drivers remove their identification signs in parking lots? Main reasons:

• desire to avoid payment;
• evasion of payment of a fine for violating traffic rules;
• to avoid evacuation of the vehicle.

Still, it should be noted that it is illegal to hide the identification mark of your car. Article 12.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses is violated. You can pay up to 5,000 rubles or even lose your rights.

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Such a simple way to prevent the evacuation of a car seems innocent and simple. But is this really so?

It’s interesting that they started hiding license plates since digital locks appeared . Hairdryers, a device that records the speed of a moving car, have caused some drivers to remove their identification plates.

One of the first means in the fight against them was hairspray and women's tights. Such means blocked the reflection of light, so they did not allow the number to be recorded. However, such ancient means are absolutely powerless in the fight against evacuation .

If due to this the radar could simply not record the data, then the inspector may well notice and then identify a violation of the law, manifested in the form of falsification or concealment of the license plate.

It is worth admitting that even removing the plate with numbers and taking it with you or leaving it in the trunk is not so easy. To do this, the driver must always have with him a tool that allows him not only to dismantle, but also to mount the license plates back.

At the same time, it is important to learn how to perform such actions without unnecessary noise and as quickly as possible, since otherwise passers-by may suspect a crime and call a traffic police inspector.

But why do some motorists still resort to these tricks? Where did the tradition of removing numbers or hiding them using a special film, a layer of dirt and other “screens” come from?

There are several possible answers to this question:

• Many paid parking lots are equipped with special mechanisms, parking signs, that read the number. Thanks to this information, the car owner is obliged to pay for parking. If the device cannot determine absolutely all the digits of the numbers, you can really save money;
• similar equipment is also installed in the coverage area of ​​most prohibition signs. As in the case of paid parking, its purpose is to read license plates and transmit information to charge fines to negligent drivers;
• and finally, current legislation prohibits the towing of a vehicle without license plates. Drivers who hide their license plate count on traffic police inspectors to strictly comply with this rule.

However, unfortunately for car owners, traffic police officers are well aware of such tricks . That is why they have developed a number of measures that allow them to counteract dishonest drivers.

Paid parking

Whether parking is paid or not is monitored by parking sensors - these are devices that can read the identification mark and identify the owner of the vehicle. Drivers have learned to hide them in order to avoid paying for parking. The numbers are covered with film and other stickers. Some people purchase magnetic frames that allow them to be quickly removed and put on. Workers can remove foreign objects that will cover the numbers and interfere with vehicle identification. Thus, you can avoid penalties from traffic police inspectors, but not payment for parking your car.

Parking lot workers can also call the state traffic inspector and insist on evacuation if the car is involved in an emergency.

Why do drivers hide their license plate number?

Removing license plates is one of the tricks that drivers go to so that their vehicle is not taken to the impound lot. The method seems simple and innocent. Is this really true?

They started hiding numbers with the advent of digital locks. “Hairdryers” - a device that recorded the speed of a moving car forced drivers to damage the plate with an identification sign.

The first products were women's tights and hairspray. These means did not allow the light to be reflected and the number recorded. But in the fight against tow trucks, such ancient means are powerless.

If the radar simply did not record data, then a foot inspector can notice and identify a violation of the law in the form of hiding or falsifying a license plate.

Removing the license plate and leaving it in the trunk or even taking it with you is not that easy. The driver will have to constantly carry a tool with him that will allow him to both dismantle and reinstall the license plates.

At the same time, you need to learn how to perform such actions as quickly as possible and without unnecessary noise, otherwise passers-by may suspect a crime and call the traffic police inspectors.

But why do motorists resort to such tricks? The law does not allow a towing service to pick up a vehicle without identification marks, because there is no way to identify the vehicle.

Some drivers hide their license plates, disguise them with improvised means, or pollute them, putting on signs that distort the image. but even under such circumstances, the car is sent to a parking lot.

In Moscow, a decree was approved that vehicles with unreadable license plates must be evacuated. The inspector enters visible numbers, because he has no right to tear off stickers - this is classified as property damage.

But the owner of the car will be fined 2.5 thousand rubles, but will have to visit the traffic police department more than once with statements, protocols and other papers.

Actions if a car is towed to an impound lot are shown in the article: what to do if a car is towed to an impound lot.

Read about the legality of towing a disabled person's car here.

Fine for leaving a car without an identification mark

According to the law, there are no penalties for such parking. However, the situation is twofold, because the laws contradict each other. The fight against terrorists has a detrimental effect on those who want to “save money.”

What responsibility awaits car owners for hiding their license plate number?

As discussed above, even taking into account that the evacuation of a car without license plates is not permitted in a large number of cases, the law provides for several exceptions that do not allow one to have one hundred percent certainty. As a result, hiding or twisting the license plate is almost pointless.

For car owners who like to cheat and believe that a missing license plate will protect their vehicle from impound parking, a number of penalties are provided:

• If a motorist drives with hidden license plates, he will be punished with a warning and a fine of 500 rubles;
• There are more serious penalties for driving with missing signs. In this case, the owner is fined 5,000 rubles or may be deprived of his driver’s license for up to 3 months;
• For finding a car in a parking lot with missing identification marks, a traffic police officer can find out how and under what conditions this happened. In almost all cases, this violation is punishable by a fine of up to 2,500 rubles.

You may notice that fines for missing license plates when parking are quite small. However, they are much more expensive than paying valet parking. If you do not want to expose yourself to such expenses, it is better not to try to save on them. In addition, being in a paid parking lot will protect your car from minor damage and the possibility of theft.

There is simply no way to hide identification marks, hoping that traffic violations will go unpunished. Your car will still be taken to the impound lot, and you will have to pay for being there and a fine of 2,500 rubles. It is much more useful and cheaper to comply with traffic rules so that you do not have to pay various fines.

Police instead of traffic police

If an inspector finds vehicles without license plates in a paid parking lot, they are planned to be placed under the control of law enforcement agencies. These cars may be stolen, wanted, or already used in illegal activities. To protect local residents from terrorist attacks and encounters with criminals, unmarked cars will be handed over to the police. Therefore, from now on, drivers who decide to save money may face serious problems worse than evacuation or a fine.

Recommendation: Before you rent a number and park your car, it is better to seriously think about the possible consequences.

"Fair" evacuation

If a car owner parks his “iron horse” without license plates under a “Parking is prohibited” or “Stopping is prohibited” sign, MADI inspectors will not waste precious time on further clarification of the circumstances of this act.

They have the legal right to tow a car to a parking lot for illegal parking. In this case, the inspector will not figure out who owns the car.

Since he does not have the right to clean the dirt from the license plate or rip off the special film (by law, such actions can be classified as property damage or violation of the inviolability of private property), he will rewrite the visible numbers and then send the car to the impound lot.

If a cunning driver has completely removed the license plates, then only he will have problems, since he will not know what to do next, where to look for the car, or to which parking lot it was evacuated. This may well waste a lot of mental energy and precious time.

Recently, you can see the evacuation of cars without license plates under the pretext of fighting terrorism.

The vehicle is removed from a 400-meter zone from the MCC, surface vestibules of stations, metro structures, ground transport stops, transport hubs, parks, as well as other public places where a large number of people accumulate.

According to the new regulations, such cars are moved to specialized parking lots, where they are checked by law enforcement officers.

Thanks to this, they can determine whether the car poses a terrorist threat or whether it is wanted. After this check, the evacuated cars are returned to the owner or his legal representative.

Lanes of Invisibility

You can see streets lined with unmarked cars. Today such streets are called invisible lanes. While respectable motorists are circling around, trying to find a place to park, those who like to circumvent the rules spend hours free of charge. Owners of middle-class vehicles wonder why those who have expensive cars do not want to pay for parking spaces? Why will you get away with parking without license plates in a paid parking lot? Theoretically, police officers can find out the vehicle identification code, but in most cars it is hidden by the hood.

What threatens a car without license plates?

Despite the fact that the owner has the right to freely move around the city and beyond for 10 days, stopping in paid and free parking lots is essentially prohibited.

While driving, a traffic police officer has the right to stop you, but the maximum that you face is checking the purchase and sale agreement for compliance with the terms of vehicle registration. This procedure does not take longer than 5-10 minutes and does not threaten deprivation of rights or other terrible things.

While driving on the roads is clear, parking is not so simple. Evacuation from paid parking threatens all cars without license plates. The territorial moratorium on all suspicious cars that could be considered a terrorist threat includes any cars without license plates parked in crowded places in the center of Moscow and beyond. It turns out that evacuation to the impound lot does not threaten only those who leave their vehicle in the yard between the houses on the very outskirts.

Evacuation of a car in emergency situations

Various everyday situations arise. During various construction, repair work, or the participation of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, it may be necessary to vacate a parking space. In such a situation, service workers can call a tow truck for the vehicle. There is a certain list of places from which a car is towed even without license plates:

• gas pipeline;
• city ​​sewer system;
• water pipes;
• places through which special services will travel.

Advice: In case of emergency evacuation of the car, the owner will be required to pay for the tow truck, a fine for the lack of registration plates and the time the car spent in the impound lot. It's worth paying attention to the place.

Towing a properly parked car

Is it legal to tow a car without license plates that is parked without violations?

As we have already noted, special services can evacuate a car without identification marks only in extreme cases.

For example, if the vehicle is in the area covered by a prohibitory sign . However, if the car was parked in a yard where there are no parking restrictions, then traffic police inspectors usually do not touch it.

However, this rule also has a number of nuances. For example, if a driver left a car on a section of the road under which there are underground communications (water pipes, gas pipes or a sewer network), then it may be evacuated to a penalty area.

The fact is that in an emergency, certain services must have quick access to all communication facilities . If there is a car above them, access to them remains blocked.

Foot army against car offenders

When fighting against those who like to circumvent the law, foot traffic police inspectors act. They are engaged in freeing the numbers from various stickers covering the number and issuing a fine.

Sometimes pedestrian traffic inspectors have to deal with the rudeness and arrogance of today's drivers. It gets to the point where the driver directly says that everything is legal and there shouldn’t be any problems.

Parking lot without numbers

If you walk around the city center, you can understand that the alleged “terrorists” prefer expensive cars.
If you walk around the city center, you can understand that the alleged “terrorists” prefer expensive cars.

What actually happens when a car without license plates is noticed by towing service employees? The car is loaded onto a tow truck and taken to the impound lot! Well, this is idiocy!

By the way, here is an excerpt from the recommendations of the National Anti-Terrorism Center:

Procedure for detecting a suspicious item

• It is strictly forbidden to touch, open, move or take any other actions with the discovered item.
• It is not recommended to use mobile phones and other radio communications near such an object.

I'm not saying that only a terrorist without a brain would leave a car filled with explosives without license plates in order to thereby attract attention to himself. Most likely, it will be an inconspicuous and just stolen car with license plates.

The decision of the capital's anti-terrorism commission caused misunderstanding not only among ordinary motorists and the media, but also among deputies. Yaroslav Nilov, deputy head of the LDPR faction and chairman of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs, is confident that city officials have exceeded their powers, and the evacuation of cars without registration plates is just a desire to earn as much money as possible.

Gap in the law

Parking without identification signs does not fall under the points of violation of the law. It turns out that driving without them is a violation, but parking is not yet. But they are going to close the “loophole” because this phenomenon is spreading like an epidemic from large cities further and further. A legitimate reason for towing such vehicles, in addition to the fight against terrorism, may be improper parking of the vehicle. Fortunately, this happens everywhere.

To summarize, we can say that at the moment there are no penalties for parking without identification marks, but the car can still be towed “on a general basis” or if the vehicle is involved in an emergency. It's better to think twice before leaving your car in the parking lot.

Video: Moscow, Luchnikov lane, paid parking and all cars without license plates

Detaining cars and moving them to a specialized impound lot is one of the measures to combat traffic rule violators.

In order to return movable property from the impound lot, the driver must not only obtain permission from the relevant department of the traffic police, but also pay the cost of evacuation and storage services, which quite often amounts to large sums of money.

To avoid evacuation, many drivers leave their vehicles without license plates. Is it possible to evacuate a vehicle without signs? Read on.

Are cars that are parked without violating traffic rules taken away?

Towing of vehicles with missing license plates is carried out by technical services in special situations. For example, this can happen when parking a car under a sign that prohibits it. If you park your car in yards with no prohibitory signs, most likely nothing will happen to it.

But this rule also has some nuances. For example, a car can be towed to a parking lot if it is parked under areas where there are any communications underground - gas pipes, water supply, and sewerage pipes. The purpose of this is to enable rescue services to access necessary communications during emergencies. If there is a car there, this access simply will not exist.

Towing a car with missing license plates in a paid parking zone

If a motorist has removed license plates to refuse to pay for a parking space, having his car towed will be a fully legal method of punishment. No one can tow a car located in a paid parking lot. Nobody will do this.

They deal with such drivers differently. Information about the car is transferred to the Parking Space Administrator. This service has walking staff. Who are authorized to remove or erase extraneous items that obscure license plate information. Next comes the standard scheme - recording the car number and charging a fine to the owner.

How to find out where a car is currently located online by license plate number

They include both government (the traffic police base) and commercial structures, including insurance companies.

From a huge amount of data, we create a single, most informative report for each car.

You will receive vehicle details online and a copy of the report will be sent to your email.

Where is the car in the impound lot: how to find out and what methods

1. Passport.
2. Documents for the car (confirming ownership).
3. Technical certificate.
4. Insurance policy.
5. Receipt for payment of the fine.
   The inspector on duty will issue a receipt for paying the fine; after payment, you need to submit this receipt to the traffic police.
6. Based on the above documents, the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate issues a certificate allowing you to pick up the fined car.
7. If the car is not taken by the owner, then this person must have with him a power of attorney from the owner, certified by a notary.

How to find out the owner of a car by car number

It is quite possible that you are interested not only in the full name of the car owner, but also in some other personal data: address and passport details. Obtaining this information will not be difficult.

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