NH Florida Car - Inspection Sticker

[songkrai]

The car is in Florida.
New Hampshire plates.
2 years.

New Hampshire registration and plates - current. Insurance current.
Inspection sticker expired.
Need to drive back to New Hampshire from Florida.

Take off expired inspection sticker or leave expired inspection sticker on car.

Which is best ?

Registering car in Florida or any other state is not an option.

Remove expired NH inspection sticker or leave expired sticker on car. To drive/bring back to New Hampshire from Florida.

[fatlazyless]

You can ask your N.H. town clerk for a 'Florida exemption form' giving you two weeks time to get a N.H. state inspection because it was a Florida car. Is designed to be shown to a N.H. police officer who stops you for an expired N.H. inspection sticker.

[Blue Thunder]

I have a similar issue but Mass plates. Sticker expires in January each year. MASS RMV has an option on their webpage that allows me to acknowledge that the sticker is expired and that I will get it inspected upon my return to Massachusetts.
Having said that, I wouldn’t worry about it. Just get it inspected upon your return. Even if you get stopped for it, I would think most officers would find your story believable. Don’t remove the sticker. It’s better to have an expired sticker than no sticker at all.

[Biggd]

Originally Posted by songkrai

The car is in Florida.
New Hampshire plates.
2 years.

New Hampshire registration and plates - current. Insurance current.
Inspection sticker expired.
Need to drive back to New Hampshire from Florida.

Take off expired inspection sticker or leave expired inspection sticker on car.

Which is best ?

Registering car in Florida or any other state is not an option.

Remove expired NH inspection sticker or leave expired sticker on car. To drive/bring back to New Hampshire from Florida.

If it was mine, I would remove the sticker, JMO. Many of the States you go through won't know the NH inspection laws but if the sticker is there then they will know it's expired!

[TiltonBB]

Originally Posted by Biggd

If it was mine, I would remove the sticker, JMO. Many of the States you go through won't know the NH inspection laws but if the sticker is there then they will know it's expired!

A police officer in one state cannot write you a ticket for a violation of the law of another state.

In other words, you could drive your New Hampshire registered car in Florida for years with an expired inspection sticker, or no sticker at all and never receive a ticket.

I do agree with the method suggested above. New Hampshire gives a 14 day grace period for inspections when returning to the state.

[Little Bear]

NH has a special permit allowing transportation of a motor vehicle without an inspection sticker. Just figure out the time that you’ll arrive in NH and then you have a free pass for 48 hours. I had one of these once, got stopped by a cop for an expired inspection, showed him the permit and he said he had never seen one before.

https://www.dmv.nh.gov/sites/g/files...ts/rdmv356.pdf

[TheTimeTraveler]

Should be fine if you enter New Hampshire after dark (maybe after 8:30 pm) where the expired sticker would not be seen because of the light conditions (just don't get a speeding ticket to call attention to yourself).

First thing the next morning get a new sticker applied so it will no longer be an issue.

Drive carefully on your venture north.

[Descant]

Originally Posted by Little Bear

...got stopped by a cop for an expired inspection, showed him the permit and he said he had never seen one before…

Stopped by a Florida State Trooper many years ago. Instead of walking up to the car, he got out, stood behind his door and motioned for me to get out. We had a brand new Volvo with Maine dealer plates. The speedometer had broken but we knew that 3000 rpm was 60 mph so we drove on the tach. Forgot that the electric overdrive gave us another 500 rpm so we were speeding. My NH driver's license, renewed by mail while I was in the Navy, so it was stamped "Valid without photograph or signature" As Little Bear notes, he had never seen that before. He let us go with advice to stop passing so many cars.

[smith point boater]

I have the same problem every year as my sticker expires in April. I am in Florida until mid May. I get a letter from the Alton Town Clerk acknowledging that my sticker has expired and I have 30 days upon my return to get a current one.

Very simple - just write or call your town clerk to request dispensation until your return

[songkrai]

Ended up just scrapping old wrong color sticker off.
Then drove without any sticker on windshield.

Made it. No issues.

But yes. One can contact the town clerk. Documents do have to be mailed back and forth. One down. Then up. Then down.

[smith point boater]

Glad you made it. We don't have any back and forth. Simple email to Town Clerk and a week or so later we have our requested form in hand. Put it in glove compartment and no worries!!

Have a great summer

[garysanfran]

California has inspections every two years for smog emissions only. No safety check at all...Ever.

No brakes? Who cares.

CA is SO paternal in so many ways. I've always assumed it is because the illegal residents have little money to make repairs.

Eliminating discrimination in any form is California's mantra. Even if it makes no common sense.

Unintended consequences? What are those?

[thinkxingu]

Originally Posted by garysanfran

California has inspections every two years for smog emissions only. No safety check at all...Ever.

No brakes? Who cares.

CA is SO paternal in so many ways. I've always assumed it is because the illegal residents have little money to make repairs.

Eliminating discrimination in any form is California's mantra. Even if it makes no common sense.

Unintended consequences? What are those?

One question that keeps coming up is whether or not there is data to support that inspections reduce accidents.

Sure, it would make sense, but there's any number of counterintuitive systems out there.

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