CA_Libertarian
State Researcher
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This has been discussed before... perhaps someone less lazy than me will post a link to the other thread where we thoroughly hashed this out.
I'll summarize my view here:
1) The legislature's intent here was obviously to prevent someone from PERMANENTLY preventing the SN from being read.
2) If all "covering" of a SN were illegal, then what constitutes "covered" for purposes of this statue?
This has been discussed before... perhaps someone less lazy than me will post a link to the other thread where we thoroughly hashed this out.
I'll summarize my view here:
1) The legislature's intent here was obviously to prevent someone from PERMANENTLY preventing the SN from being read.
2) If all "covering" of a SN were illegal, then what constitutes "covered" for purposes of this statue?
- My car has a SN on it (commonly referred to as "VIN"); when it's cold outside my window fogs over, obscuring the SN; when it's hot outside I use a sun shade that prevents looking through the front window where the SN is. Are these violations?
- My TV has a SN on it, yet when I moved a couple years ago I draped a blanket over it to prevent damage to it, coincidentally covering the SN. Is this a violation?