Yup, every state is different. That why we are called the united STATES and not America or something else. There were designated federal powers and the rest delegated to the states. There is some federal coersion and arm twisting but in general that’s the way it is. May change a little with chevron. Don’t mean to keep saying this but it is the grand design that some including the French just don’t get.
Sold my lifelong collection of 47 license plates, No worries.
With toll roads and fee parking using license plate numbers for billing, care must be taken with old license plates. The last thing I would do with my old plates would be to sell them to a stranger.
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This only applies to standard plates…
TN got a new plate design a couple years ago (2022 changed color and added a letter, so plates older than that are not going to do anyone any good here… But as Bing said, states are different so check your to be sure…
old plate (internet pic)
new plate
Not much chance in mixing them up… lol
In Virginia, the rules governing the disposal of your license plates are “very stringent” to a point. When you sell, dispose of, or transfer your ownership of your vehicle in any way, you MUST “surrender” your plates…
As serious as this sounds, the method becomes very “wishy-washy” real quick. The surrender process can be as regimented as you reporting to a DMV office and turn in your plates to have your registration in the system canceled or you can do it by simply logging onto the DMV Website and cancelling your registration that way. But if you still have at-least 6-months left on the registration, you are not eligible for a partial refund through the web…
However, if you “surrender” your plates through the web site, you still possess the actual plates and you are free to do with them as you see fit.
*** Transfer your plates to another vehicle if you purchase a replacement vehicle.
*** Sell your plates online on Craigslist, eBay, or Facebook.
*** Recycle your plates at a recycling center.
But if you keep your plates and use some method to dispose of them (give away, sell, hang them on the wall, etc…) and they somehow get used in some nefarious way, the police will come knocking on your door to explain and prove that it was not you…
We recently donated one of our cars to Eggleston Services and when Eggleston came to pick up the car, I removed the plates and afterwards we drove to the DMV and turned the plates in, we then drove to our insurance agent to cancel the coverage, and then onto the county seat to cancel our ownership so we would not continue to be charge property tax (that’s a thing in Virginia…).