The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXIII
MOTOR VEHICLES

Chapter 320
MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSES

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F.S. 320.061

320.061 Unlawful to alter motor vehicle registration certificates, license plates, temporary license plates, mobile home stickers, or validation stickers or to obscure license plates; penalty.—A person may not alter the original appearance of a vehicle registration certificate, license plate, temporary license plate, mobile home sticker, or validation sticker issued for and assigned to a motor vehicle or mobile home, whether by mutilation, alteration, defacement, or change of color or in any other manner. A person may not apply or attach a substance, reflective matter, illuminated device, spray, coating, covering, or other material onto or around any license plate which interferes with the legibility, angular visibility, or detectability of any feature or detail on the license plate or interferes with the ability to record any feature or detail on the license plate. A person who violates this section commits a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a moving violation as provided in chapter 318.

History.—s. 9, ch. 28186, 1953; s. 3, ch. 69-178; s. 192, ch. 71-136; s. 3, ch. 72-79; s. 7, ch. 77-357; s. 15, ch. 83-318; s. 33, ch. 96-413; s. 23, ch. 2007-196; s. 25, ch. 2010-162; s. 32, ch. 2012-181.

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Amendments to 320.061

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 320.061

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S320.061 - FORGERY OF - REPEALED 2010-162 - M: S

Civil Citations / Citable Offenses under S320.061

R or S next to points is Mandatory Revocation or Suspension

S320.061 TAG - unlawful alteration Note 16 - Points on Drivers License: 3

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

VAN TEAMER, v. STATE, 108 So. 3d 664 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2013)

. . . activity of making a false application on vehicle registration, a violation of sections 820.06 and 320.061 . . . the owner made a false application on the vehicle registration in violation of sections 320.06 and 320.061 . . .

JENKINS, v. STATE, 102 So. 3d 739 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2012)

. . . See § 320.061, Fla. Stat. (2009). Incident to arrest, they searched him and the car. . . . Jenkins for violating section 320.061, which provides as follows: No person shall alter the original . . .

VICKERS, v. STATE, 677 So. 2d 974 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1996)

. . . 1), Florida Statutes (Supp.1994), alteration of license plates (count III), in violation of section 320.061 . . .

JOHNSON, v. STATE, 537 So. 2d 655 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1989)

. . . This appeal challenges the constitutional validity of a traffic stop based on section 320.061, Florida . . .