In a message dated 6/8/2005 5:50:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
think I once read or was once told by someone that, in the US, you could have any vehicle licence plate as long as it was no more than eight characters, and didn't even have to be unique Our U.S. Constitution of 1787 says that the laws of individual states outrank wannabe laws of the national government except for the very few cases specifically written in the same quaint document. Our national judicial system still follows this precept on matters of no great importance. Consequently, each of our 50 states can have its own rules for vehicle license ID. Depending on the total number of vehicles in any given state that need to be licensed, the rule may allow from 6 to 8 characters. E.g., California went from 6 to 7 characters before any other state did, I think, in the mid-1970s due to its being the most populous state. But still the character string appearing on the plate must be unique within each state. At least I have never heard of one of our states' allowing non-unique values in the vehicle license number field. The most unforgettable vanity plate I ever saw was "KGB SPY" in the late 1970s on the George Washington Parkway not very far from the C.I.A. headquarters, of all places. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
