license plates

[27east 19]

Why is it that marked police units and some fire vehicles don't have official license plates, just the unit number?

[texastom791 31]

I've always been told that a chiefs car is an emergency vehicle and doesn't need to have plates.

[OnTheWheel 43]

§ 125. Motor vehicles. Every vehicle operated or driven upon a public

highway which is propelled by any power other than muscular power,

except (a) electrically-driven mobility assistance devices operated or

driven by a person with a disability, (a-1) electric personal assistive

mobility devices operated outside a city with a population of one

million or more, ( vehicles which run only upon rails or tracks, ©

snowmobiles as defined in article forty-seven of this chapter, and (d)

all terrain vehicles as defined in article forty-eight-B of this

chapter. For the purposes of title four of this chapter, the term motor

vehicle shall exclude fire and police vehicles other than ambulances.

Title 4 regulates registrations

[20y2 43]

Every police car and fire vehicle has an 'official' plate assigned to it, it just need not be attached to the vehicle while driving. Running the VIN will give the DMV assigned number.