{"id":86374,"date":"2025-12-17T07:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/86374\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T07:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:15:16","slug":"florida-license-plate-frame-rules-explained-by-flhsmv-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/86374\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida license plate frame rules explained by FLHSMV | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has issued a memo clarifying the regulations regarding license plate frames or covers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leg.state.fl.us\/statutes\/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&amp;Search_String=&amp;URL=0300-0399\/0320\/Sections\/0320.262.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Statute 320.262<\/a> prohibits and penalizes license plate covering, obscuring or otherwise interfering with the visibility of the plate&#8217;s primary features. Since it went into effect on Oct. 1, there has been confusion.<\/p>\n<p>In a memo posted to social media, FLHSMV provided additional guidance and clarification on the use of license plate frames regarding the new statute.<\/p>\n<p>This act does not prohibit the use of a license plate frame altogether, as long as you can clearly see the numeric plate identifier and the registration sticker located at the top right-hand corner of the plate.<\/p>\n<p>FLHSMV does not consider the information at the bottom of the plate, where it says &#8220;Sunshine State,&#8221; a primary feature of the plate. In addition, if a plate frame covers the information at the top of the plate, that is OK, so long as law enforcement can still identify the state that issued the plate.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full memo released by FLHSMV and an example of a legal license plate frame, click on the PDF below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has issued a memo clarifying the regulations regarding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4229,28,8947,30,29,47057,7885],"class_list":["post-86374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-flhsmv","tag-florida","tag-florida-department-of-highway-safety","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-highway-safety","tag-motor-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}