In addition to the legal variation, many cars don’t have a specifically designed spot to place a front plate.Įxternal brackets have been created to place the plates on the front of vehicles, but Eric Friend, the service manager at Byers Imports, a car dealership in Columbus, Ohio, said that cars sold in other states will not always include the bracket needed to secure a front license plate. “I didn’t know that there was a regulation against it.” They just gave it to me so I just started driving around like that,” he said. “My car was in a car accident and they never put the front license plate back on. A total of 19 states in the US require only one license plate.Ĭhris Baxter, a resident of Cincinnati, drove his car with no front license plate for six months after receiving it that way from a body shop in Kentucky.

While Ohio requires that drivers have both front and back license plates on their cars, all of its border states – Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky – only require a back plate. But some residents report that they didn’t know the law, or didn’t start complying until they received a ticket. I could have been #SamDubose,” another user tweeted.Īccording to Ohio bureau of motor vehicles spokesperson Lindsey Bohrer, license plates are issued in a set. “I drove around Ohio with no front license plates for a decade. You know how many Ohio drivers don't have front license plates on their cars? Hell, I never had one #SamDubose- Miss Ann Dri July 29, 2015

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