"Wilma TV was fined $17,500. Alaska: The Last Frontier Alaska: The Last Frontier is an American reality cable television series on the Discovery Channel, currently in its 8th season of broadcast. The show documents the extended Kilcher family, descendants of Swiss immigrants and Alaskan pioneers, Yule and Ruth Kilcher, at their homestead 11 miles outside of Homer. By living without plumbing or modern heating, the clan chooses to subsist by farming, hunting and preparing for the long winters. The Kilcher family are relatives of the singer Jewel, who has appeared on the show. Production occurs throughout the year on site."
"serial format. During 1972, nine thousand pairs of these plates were produced, but before they could be issued they were rejected by Governor William A. Egan, who objected to the use of dots rather than stars in the state flag. The plates were instead considered prototypes, with their elements being used on future plates: the revalidation sticker box in the top left corner was used on the 1974 and 1975 versions of the 1970 plate; the ABC 123 serial format was adopted in 1976; and the ""Last Frontier"" plates issued since 1981 have the state flag in the center (with"
"Five states currently offer license plates with a pro-choice theme: Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Choose Life license plates Choose Life license plates are specialty license plates available in 32 states in the United States that express an anti-abortion message. The plates are the concept of Choose Life, Inc., an anti-abortion advocacy group based in Ocala, Florida. It was founded in 1997 by Randy Harris, a commissioner of Marion County, after he got an idea (when he noticed an environmental plate on the car in front of him, while stuck in traffic) to use specialty license plates as a"
"– all of them treated equally as ""nations"" that Florida was part of or governed by. The five flags ""that have flown in Florida"" were included on the official Senate seal, displayed prominently in the Senate chambers, on its stationery, and throughout the Capitol. On October 19, 2015, the Senate agreed to change the seal so as to remove the Confederate battle flag from it. The new (2016) Senate seal has only the flags of the United States and Florida. In Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, vehicle owners can request a state-issued license plate featuring"
"standards. Awards have been given to Nevada, Virginia, Nebraska, Colorado, Indiana, Florida, New Jersey, California, South Dakota, Delaware, Kansas, West Virginia, and New Mexico. In December 2005, the Coalition for a Secure Driver's License launched a billboard campaign in North Carolina urging the increase of driver's license issuance standards, which group members felt were overly lax. The billboard's slogan, ""Don't License Terrorists"" accompanied an image of a terrorist wearing a traditional Arab headdress while holding a driver's license and grenade. James Zogby, president of the Washington-based Arab American Institute, said the billboard was racist and anti-immigration for its depiction of"
"Australia – The Rose State; and South Australia – The Electronics State. All slogan plates are discontinued, as at October 2008. It is also possible to obtain a wide variety of personalised registration plates that feature full-colour illustrations and customised logos or slogans. ABC-123 - AAA-QZZ (All except AMB), RAQ, RBQ up to SZQ, RQA-RQZ, SQA-SQZ, TAQ, TBQ up to XTQ (All except VPQ and WSQ), XUO-XZZ, YAQ, YBQ up to YHQ, YIM-YXZ (All except YKA-000 to YKA-799), YYQ, YZQ, ZAA-ZZZ. S-123-ABC - AAQ, ABQ up to BXQ. ARA - ARZ, BQA - BQZ, TAQ, TBQ up to TGQ. Vehicle"
"Canada, or standard auto plates of the province of Ontario with flags of the Governor General on the front hood. Vehicles owned by the Canadian Forces and the Department of National Defence are also specially plated, and authorized for movement on all highways and roads. Called a ""Canadian Forces Registration"" (CFR), these licence plates are white with a green border and the text ""Canada"" written on them at the top in green, with a red maple leaf on either side of the text at the top. CFR serials are five-digit numbers for vehicles and for trailers. These plates also do"
"the license plate itself. Pennsylvania issued validation stickers for Philadelphia residents that were displayed in the lower left corner of cars' rear windows for a few years to thwart sticker theft from plates; the practice ended in late 2003 with the last issued stickers bearing January 2005 expirations. As of January 2017, Pennsylvania no longer issues any registration stickers. In Hawaii, counties compete over the cost of vehicle registration dues. Vehicles are purchased at a discount on Oahu compared to the neighboring islands where there is usually only one dealer per vehicle make. Because the outlying counties issue plates starting"
"discontinued on passenger plates in 1972, and on truck plates in 1975. From 1976 until sometime after 1996, the county of issuance was displayed on a sticker at the top of the plate. Cibola County was created in 1981, after the codes had been discontinued. Vehicle registration plates of New Mexico The U.S. state of New Mexico first required its residents to register their motor vehicles and display license plates in 1912. New Mexico is the only state that specifies ""USA"" on its license plates, so as to avoid confusion with the country Mexico, which it borders to the southwest."
"overflowing from SZZ-999 to UAA-000 etc. (having reserved the Taa-nnn series for trailer registrations). Run years: 1 January 1987 to 1 July 2018 Heavy vehicles (over 4.5 tonnes GVM) can choose to participate in FIRS scheme. FIRS plates are WX·00AA, and are green on a reflective yellow background. FIRS plates are issued by state authorities on behalf of the Commonwealth, and carry the format as specified by the ""Interstate Road Transport Regulations 1986 – Reg 21"". Federal Interstate-registered vehicles are prohibited from undertaking intrastate journeys and can only be used for cross-border work. The first character represents the state of"
"Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin), with Tennessee being the most recent state (as of 2015) to repeal the restriction for installing logo signs on rural highways only. The 2000 MUTCD also added the attractions category, followed by the 2003 MUTCD which added the 24-hour pharmacies category. Logo signs in the United States are limited to six logos per sign, and additional signs may be used up to a total of four in each direction per interchange. In 2006, the Federal Highway Administration issued an interim approval to"
"in September 2013. Massachusetts is a unique case for license plate mounting. Before the introduction of the current ""Spirit of America"" base starting in 1986 for commercial vehicles, as well as vanity plates in 1988 for all other vehicles, the state issued only a single green-on-white plate to be mounted on the rear bumper. With the current-issue base, two plates are issued and are to be mounted on both the front and rear bumpers. Since all license plates issued since 1978 are currently valid, most passenger vehicles registered in Massachusetts display two plates, but those with the older green-on-white plates"
"""B"" for January to ""Y"" and ""Z"" for December. Maine trailer plates start with two digits and a dash, as all plates expire on the last day of February, and the first two digits of the plate are the year it expires. Although increasingly few states place the full name of the county of registration explicitly on their standard-issue plates, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee continue the practice. However, Georgia allows drivers to choose the slogan ""In God We Trust"" in place of the county name where the vehicle is registered, and Florida allows its residents to choose"
"the issuing jurisdiction. The term ""license plate"" is frequently used in statutes, although in some areas ""tag"" is informally used. The official three letter ISO international code attributed to the United States is USA. Plate designs often contain symbols, colors, or slogans associated with the issuing jurisdiction. Registration number formats, typically alphanumeric, are designed to provide enough unique numbers for all motor vehicles a jurisdiction expects to register. For example, the small states of Delaware and Rhode Island are able to use formats of 123456, while California uses the seven-character format 1ABC234, and several other populous states use seven-character ABC-1234"
"showing prospectors on the trail to the Yukon. Tennessee commemorated its 1996 bicentennial celebration by issuing standard plates labeled ""BicenTENNial"" in the place of the state's name; these plates remained standard issue until 2001, five years after the celebration had ended. States often issue plates with their motto or slogan, such as North Carolina's ""First in Flight"" and Ohio's ""Birthplace of Aviation"". These are arguably also general commemoratives. By law, all plates issued in Alabama must contain the words ""Heart of Dixie"" inside a small heart symbol. Over the years, due to sensitivities over the word ""Dixie"", the symbol (which"
"that they felt the ""Choose Life"" saying was intended to be an anti-abortion message. Sometimes even ordinary plates can spark controversy. For instance, George Maynard did not like the state motto on his New Hampshire license plate, ""Live free or die"" and chose to cover it with tape. He was prosecuted and convicted for defacing a license plate. The United States Supreme Court ruled in ""Wooley v. Maynard"", 430 U.S. 705 (1977), that since one is compelled to have a license plate on one's vehicle, they are permitted not to have to show a message from the state to which"
"Washington do so only for certain types of license plates, such as vanity plates and special issues; Alabama, Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia have switched to the so-called ""flat plate"" technology for all their license plates. Nevada formerly issued flat plates but has returned to making embossed plates. Delaware license plates have not been embossed for several decades. Wyoming normally issues flat plates but also issues embossed license plates for an extra fee. In 2018, California started a pilot program in"
"of replacing these with ""Spirit"" plates at no charge (though a different number will be used); however, most choose to keep their 1977 plates as a point of pride. In many cases, the 1977 plates are worn and illegible; legally per M.G.L. Chapter 90, a car with an illegible plate (regardless of age or color) must fail the state's annually required vehicle safety inspection. This is a safety fail, which under Massachusetts law prohibits operation of the vehicle until the issue is corrected. Vehicle registration plates of Massachusetts Massachusetts was the first U.S. state to issue license plates, on September"
"000-NAA to 999-PZZ remaining in circulation, and 000-QAA to 999-QZZ combinations being used and reserved for large trailers and government vehicles. On 22 April 2012, the recently elected Campbell Newman-led LNP government announced that it would stop manufacturing ""The Smart State"" plates as a cost cutting measure, noting that nine-out-of-10 customers chose the ""Sunshine State"" slogan. Starting on 19 August 2013, limited edition ""Queenslander! – 8 in a Row"" slogan plates starting at 000·UAA were issued to celebrate the recent eighth consecutive State of Origin win for Queensland. In July 2014, when the combination 999·TZZ was reached, the 000-UAA to"
"and rear-only plates, with a state shape added in the top left corner and the ""Constitution State"" slogan moved from the top to the bottom. The current sky blue base was introduced in January 2000. Between September 2000 and August 2002, all remaining 1957–74 and 1976–99 plates were replaced with plates on this base bearing the same serials. Hence, serials issued in 1957 can be seen on the current base. Plate stickers continued to be issued through August 2006 (the last being used for August 2008 expirations). From September 2006 through July 2010, windshield stickers were used instead (the last"
"Confederate flag from plates finding that the plates were speech by the state. The use of the Confederate Battle Flag and other Confederate symbols on the plates has stirred controversy but Jay Barringer, commander of the Maryland Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans countered ""We're trying to divest ourselves of the negative associations"" with the Confederate flag. In some states revenues are shared with the SCV organization. In New Jersey, people convicted of drunk driving can be banned from using vanity plates. In Ohio, convicted drunk drivers are mandated to drive with special red-on-yellow license plates in exchange for limited"
"and Australia is ""XZ"" rather than ""AUS"". United States license plate designs and serial formats In the United States, the appearance of license plates is frequently chosen to contain symbols, colors, or slogans associated with the issuing jurisdiction, which are the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the 5 inhabited U.S. territories, and Native American tribes, each of which independently registers motor vehicles. Regular-issue license plates for passenger vehicles typically have 5-7 characters, with specialty or vanity plates having up to 8 characters in some states. This article describes the designs and serial formats for regular-issue plates. Formats for"
"Federal law specifically allows them to choose to either retain the state vehicle registration of their original residence or change registration to their state of assignment. In the United States, 19 states – Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia – do not require an official front registration plate. In 2004, Puerto Rico established the designs of the United States plates and the requirements of the United States plates. In Nevada, front plates are optional if the vehicle was not designed for a"
"and Calgary Flames licence plates for $75 with $55 of each purchase going to the charity of the selected team, the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation and the Calgary Flames Foundation, respectively. Alberta also has a ""Support our Troops"" licence plate that has been available since July 22, 2014 with most of the money going to the Support our Troops program. When in Canada, The Queen rides in a car that bears a licence plate showing a gold St. Edward's Crown on a red field. The Governor General's car bears a plate similar to the Flag of the Governor General of"
"protest motto ""No taxation without representation"" omitting the initial ""No"", and is now printed on newly issued Washington, D.C. license plates (although a driver may choose to have the District of Columbia website address instead). President Bill Clinton's presidential limousine had the ""Taxation without representation"" license plate late in his term, while President George W. Bush had the vehicle's plates changed shortly after beginning his term in office. President Barack Obama had the license plates changed back to the protest style shortly before his second-term inauguration. President Donald Trump continued to use the plates as of his inauguration, though he"
"Larry Hogan of Maryland (a Republican)—announced plans to seek discontinuation of their states' Confederate-flag specialty license plates. In addition to the Charleston killings, the governors cited the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in ""Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans"", issued days earlier, in which the Court affirmed that states are not constitutionally obligated to issue Confederate specialty plates. On June 24, 2015, Robert Bentley, governor of Alabama, ordered the removal of the Confederate flag from a memorial on the state capitol grounds. A spokeswoman for Governor Robert Bentley told the Montgomery Advertiser on Wednesday that he did not want"
"had the license plates displaying the confederate flag on their vehicles, and the SOCV challenged the governor's authority to recall the license plates, citing the 2001 injunction, and in a letter addressed to Virginia DMV Commissioner Richard Holcomb and forwarded to the governor, Sons of Confederate Veterans Commander Tracy Clary wrote: ""I am aware of no order from the 4th Circuit vacating our right to receive our plates from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles and on behalf of ALL the citizens of the Commonwealth I insist that you follow the rule of Law."" But in August 2015 the Federal"
"plates containing a small Confederate Battle Flag had been offered in Virginia ever since a Federal judge issued a 2001 injunction ruling that banning them would be discriminating against the Sons of Confederate Veterans and limiting their First Amendment right to free speech. In a highly controversial move, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, announced that the Commonwealth intended to phase out the state-sponsored specialty license plate six days after a racially charged shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina ignited protests against the display of the Confederate Battle Flag and other Confederate symbols. More than 1,600 Virginians"
"west as Illinois; California's FasTrak; Florida's SunPass; Kansas's K-Tag; Oklahoma's Pikepass; Texas's TxTag (and within Texas, Houston's EZ Tag and Dallas's TollTag); Louisiana's GeauxPass; and Georgia's Peach Pass and Cruise Card. Many toll roads have implemented open road tolling which eliminates the need to stop at toll booths. Toll roads, especially near the East Coast, are often called ""turnpikes""; the term ""turnpike"" originated from ""pikes"", which were long sticks that blocked passage until the fare was paid and the pike ""turned"" at a ""toll house"" (or ""toll booth"" in current terminology). In early US history, many individual citizens would maintain"
"scheme. In Vermont, municipal government plates have a red background instead of the usual green background; State Police plates are green with yellow lettering instead of white, matching the color scheme of VSP patrol vehicles. In Florida, government vehicles have a black-on-yellow scheme. Old California government plates have the letter ""E"" inside of either an octagon or a diamond, which are no longer issued, but still valid. Old government vehicles will either have a diamond or octagon before 6 random digits while newer government vehicles say ¨CA EXEMPT"" at the top of the license plate in red instead of the"
"Thus, an observer familiar with the sequence can determine roughly when the plate was issued. In a few cases, numbers have been assigned in descending order. For example, when Virginia switched to seven characters for its standard issue in 1993, numbers beginning with AAA-1000 were already in use for extra-cost, optional-issue plates; therefore, the new standard license plates were issued in descending order from ZZZ-9999. In some states, the month of expiration or the county of registration is incorporated into the plate's serial. The last number on a Massachusetts license plate indicates the month the vehicle's registration expires (for example,"
"Expressway (pictured at the right heading north) which, although even numbered, is signed north-south. State roads can have anywhere from one to four digits depending on the importance and location of the road. County roads often follow this same system. A law introduced on January 1, 2013, required all non US drivers to possess an International Driving License to drive within the state. The Florida Department for Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles issued a statement on February 14, 2013, announcing that the law would not be enforced. Amtrak service exists in Florida. Sanford, in Greater Orlando, is the southern terminus"
"of the plate number was reduced in order to accommodate the addition of the state number, legend indicating the position of the plate on the vehicle (""delantera"" (front) or ""trasera"" (rear)), and additional graphics. Mexican plates are issued in several different classifications: Private, Private ""Fronteriza"", Public, Public ""Frontera"", ""Servicio Público Federal"", ""Inspección Fiscal y Aduanera"", ""Armada de México"", and ""Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores"". The ""Fronteriza"" plates were introduced in 1972 and are available in the Mexico-United States border zone. This zone is formed by the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur, as well as parts of Sonora, Chihuahua,"