Officials ruled the plate reading GOBK2CA could be taken to mean 'go back to California,' but the owner plans to appeal their decision.
The agency stepped in again in this case after receiving a complaint about the driver's GOBK2CA license plate. The owner is now preparing for a hearing on Wednesday in which he will fight to have the unusual plate returned to their vehicle.
A sign welcomes drivers to the Department of Motor Vehicles in Los Angeles in February 2009. The Department of Motor Vehicles in Nevada has slammed the brakes on a license plate it believes has"defamed" everyone from California.The driver was identified on Thursday by local news channel KOLO-TV as Adam Steelmon, who had previously posted an image of the plate on social media where it went viral.
The relevant statute governing appropriate license plates states that drivers"can't print numbers upside down, can't do more than 7 numbers [...] can't express contempt, ridicule or superiority of race, ethnic heritage, or gender," Eli Rohl, a public information officer for the Nevada DMV in Carson City, told KOLO-TV.
Rohl added that the plates"can't have any sexual, derogatory or obscene [words]. Can't contain a direct or indirect reference to drugs, or drug paraphernalia, or a gang, and it can't make a defamatory reference to a person or a group."
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