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Hockey9019
06-15-08, 07:20 PM
I know they passed it last year that you don't have to have your vehicle registration signed anymore, but can't find it on the Michigan legislative site
If someone can find it, I'd appreciate it
Thanks
Hockey9019
06-15-08, 07:24 PM
And right after I posted this, I found it
http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-79
And right after I posted this, I found it
http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-SB-79
It was a stupid law to start with, only plus I can think of is giving officers one more thing to compare your signature on... seriously though, why bother wasting the time to write up an appeal and vote on it, when there's so much more important stuff the state legislature could be working on?
If somebody can't sign their name twice... they probably shouldn't be driving anyhow!
On another note... along the same line, several years ago I was driving for a small trucking company (light trucks, chauffeurs class), down by the Detroit zoo somebody decided to merge into me in a construction zone.
We both pulled over and got out, he messed up the passengers door pretty bad... I called the cops, he got in his car and took off... (he also couldn't speak any English, might not have been familiar with the laws in this country).
The cop was there in a couple minutes and said he must have just missed us, he'd just gone by a couple min. before, I had my license, DOT medical car, insurance and registration waiting when the cop arrived... apparently that truck was titled to the owners son, not the company... and the owner's son never signed the registration!
It was obvious who I was, with all the info ready and wearing a shirt with the company name on it... and the company name painted on the truck, so he didn't bother issuing a citation or anything, just told me to bring the registration in and get it signed when I got back to the shop that day.
I guess the registration wouldn't matter today, since that was a 'personal' F-550 tanker. :p
(And nope, I never heard anything about them catching the guy who dented my door! I was just glad I wasn't in my usual, almost brand new truck that day!)