{"id":5222,"date":"2025-10-15T03:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/5222\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T03:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:04:08","slug":"driver-cited-for-using-a-hand-drawn-license-plate-in-merced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/5222\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver cited for using a hand-drawn license plate in Merced"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Central California driver of a Nissan Sentra was pulled over and cited for driving with a drawn license plate instead of a proper one. <\/p>\n

When it comes to art, everyone\u2019s a critic, including the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n

In Central California last week, the CHP stopped a Nissan Sentra that didn\u2019t have a state-issued license plate but instead had a piece of homemade pop art on the back of the car.<\/p>\n

The CHP deemed the creative handiwork unworthy and cited the driver with a fine of $197 for driving without a proper license plates. <\/p>\n

Merced\u2019s California Highway Patrol gave the unnamed driver \u201cpoints for creativity\u201d with a post on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The department did not respond to a call asking when or where the event happened.<\/p>\n

It noted in the post that an officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle because \u201csomething unusual\u201d was noticed about the rear license plate. The license plate included the \u201cCalifornia\u201d lettering along the DMV\u2019s website and a registration sticker.<\/p>\n

\u201cUpon closer look, it turned out to be handmade!\u201d the CHP posted.<\/p>\n

California law requires that proper state-issued license plates are placed on vehicles.<\/p>\n

If a plate is missing or stolen, it can be replaced by the DMV for $27<\/a>, a much smaller evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Central California driver of a Nissan Sentra was pulled over and cited for driving with a drawn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,859,8,852,5769,1059,287,5765,5770,5771,5389,5768,1417,5767,4412,5766,178],"class_list":["post-5222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-california-news","tag-chp","tag-creativity","tag-dmv","tag-driver","tag-hand-drawn-license-plate","tag-homemade-pop-art","tag-lettering","tag-merced","tag-nissan","tag-point","tag-post","tag-social-medium","tag-state-issued-license-plate","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}