How many days are license plates stored in the traffic police?

The period of storage of numbers in the traffic police. The cost of keeping the license plate for your next car.

Since the entry into force on October 06, 2018, Order No. 399 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation dated June 26, 2018 “On approval of the rules for state registration of motor vehicles and trailers for them in the State Road Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, a sample form of a certificate of registration of a vehicle means and invalidation of regulatory legal acts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and certain provisions of regulatory legal acts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia,” the storage period for license plates has been increased to 360 days . During this period, the traffic police will store your license plate plates for free and assign it to your car upon request. According to the old regulations, storage was allowed for 180 days, after which the license plate was assigned to anyone.

The procedure for saving a number in the traffic police

The procedure for maintaining state license plates is simple. It is necessary to hand over license plates when performing registration actions - for example, when replacing a license plate, or deregistering due to disposal. In the “Please” column of the application, you must indicate that you are asking to save the registration numbers for subsequent assignment to your car.

How much does it cost to keep license plates in the traffic police?

When talking about the cost of maintaining a license plate in the traffic police, we are talking about state fees that will have to be paid in order to carry out the necessary administrative actions. The registration plate preservation service itself is free.

To keep the license plate for your next car, you will have to spend a little money. If we had not kept the license plate, we would have given away the car with the existing license plates, bought another car with license plates, registered it while keeping the license plates, and paid 850 rubles in state duty. Now let’s calculate how much you will have to pay for the pleasure of transferring registration plates to your next car.

Firstly, before the sale, it is necessary to replace the license plates (we save our favorite ones in the traffic police, and put any other random license plates on the car).
At the same time, we pay 2850 rubles in state duty. After all, cars are not deregistered now; they are sold only with license plates. Secondly, after purchasing the car, we again pay 2,850 rubles in state fees for registration with a replacement license plate. Thus, we overpay 5,700 rubles in state duties. But the person buying a car from you will pay less than he paid under the previous scheme, when the car was deregistered while retaining the license plate and the buyer paid 2,000 rubles in state duty for registration with the assignment of the license plate, and not 500 for registration with the retention of the number.

Is it possible to transfer my saved license plate number stored in the traffic police to a third party?

Unfortunately, the administrative regulations for registration do not provide for such a procedure. The license plate kept by the traffic police is not the property of the car owner in the full sense of the word. It cannot be transferred to a third party. The traffic police has the right only to assign registration plates to the same person who previously deposited them.

Thus, in order to transfer or sell the license plates stored in the traffic police to someone, the car owner will need to register the car in his name, assigning the saved license plate to it, and then sell the car along with the license plates to the buyer.

Can the traffic police assign my license plate to someone else’s car?

If you have left your license plate number with the traffic police, it will be stored only for you for 360 days. However, if you do not submit an application for registration of a car for this license plate on time, the traffic police, according to administrative regulations, has the right to assign it to any car in the general manner. Therefore, do not forget to comply with the registration deadlines if you have deposited registration plates in the traffic police.

Storing numbers in the traffic police - Details!

If you want to keep the number from your old car, then the information in this article will give you a complete understanding of how to do this. If you bought a car and want to keep the signs that are installed on it, then you should consider registering without changing the signs. So, more about saving your number.

Number storage period increased to 360 days

On October 7, 2018, a new regulation on the rules for registering vehicles came into force. (ORDER of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation dated June 26, 2018 N 399). An important innovation was the increase in the shelf life of numbers from 180 to 360 days. This will add convenience to owners of “thieves” numbers, and simply beautiful signs. According to the order, if the last day of the storage period falls on a non-working day of the unit in which the signs are located, the expiration date is considered the next working day. (but it’s better not to take risks and not come on the last day, the human factor has not been canceled).

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Documents for saving numbers

PTS
Registration certificate
Registration plates
Passport
OSAGO

If you don’t have a registration certificate, it’s no problem, a lost PTS is also not a critical problem, even if you lost both of these documents and want to keep the numbers, they will do it for you, you’ll just receive a duplicate PTS or a new electronic PTS. Many traffic police departments do not ask you to show compulsory motor liability insurance when you save your license plate number.

How much does it cost to leave license plates with the traffic police?

As such, there is no cost for the service of maintaining a number in the traffic police, or one might say it is free. But you will have the following additional costs as opposed to just getting new signs.

1) State registration plates that comply with the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation are subject to storage, i.e. in a condition very close to new condition, in particular, the numbers should not have: deformations, damage, peeling, corrosion, erased paint. If such signs are present, you will need to make duplicate numbers, fortunately there are no problems with this, almost every traffic police department has companies that will print you fresh plates for 1.5-2 thousand rubles.

2) Your car, while saving the license plate, cannot remain without signs, so when you deposit your favorite license plates, you will have to pay to get a new license plate for your car.

3) An important nuance that many people learn only when they receive signs from storage, which remains the same in the legislation. Regardless of how long the traffic police will store the license plates, you will have to pay a fee to obtain them, just like for obtaining new license plates.

As a result, the cost of maintaining the number will cost:

Duplicate characters (1-2 thousand)
Fee for issuing other signs and registration certificates when depositing old license plates (RUB 2,850)
Fee for receiving your registration plates from storage and issuing a registration certificate (RUB 2,850)

So consider for yourself whether you are so attached to your numbers that you pay an extra 3-5 thousand.

Retrieving numbers from storage

This is even easier than handing over your numbers for storage. You need to come to the traffic police, where you left the license plates on the car that you will register. When submitting documents, inform that you have saved the signs, it is advisable to know approximately when you handed them over, since the inspector will need to find the numbers in the warehouse, where they are stored in order of date of delivery, and not alphabetically. Only the owner who deposited the plates can get the plates from storage; if the plates were handed over by the husband as the owner, then it will not be possible to get the plates for a new car of which the wife is the owner.

Is it possible to extend the storage of the number?

If the license plate storage period for 360 days is coming to an end, simply going to the traffic police and expressing a desire to extend the storage will not work. In order for the plates to continue to belong to you, you need to install them on a car that you own, and then you can re-deposit them for another 360 days. If you deposited your numbers before October 7, 2018, you can extend the storage period from 180 days to 360 only by re-saving.

Conditions for storing license plates in the traffic police: procedure and new terms

Most drivers in the Russian Federation prefer not to change their license plate number after purchasing a new car. Some people don’t want the extra fuss with papers, others want to keep the original combination of letters and numbers that they accidentally came across. Few people know that this issue is being resolved. The service of storing license plates at the traffic police in 2019 is still relevant, and the terms have been revised for the convenience of motorists.

New conditions

The deadlines for the above service for drivers have been extended. Now everyone will be able to leave their license plates not for 180 days, as before, but for 360. This time is more than enough to find and buy a new car or deal with other circumstances that caused the license plates to be sent for storage.

If you want to keep a beautiful number, go through a special procedure

How to store numbers

Any driver can keep previously received license plates; just contact the traffic police department with a similar request. Any branch will do - you don’t have to return to the place where previous operations with the machine were carried out.

The procedure itself does not require payment, but the driver will have to spend a small amount on preparing photocopies and state fees.

Example of an application to save numbers

Next, the driver will have to check the license plates for compliance with the standards. If there are no signs themselves or they are in poor condition, the procedure will take a little longer. The traffic police inspector will insist on replacing old physical numbers with similar duplicates that meet all requirements. They can be made right on site. If there is no queue, it will take about an hour. This rule is necessary in order to maintain the identification of cars on the road, even for owners of old cars.

Correct request form

The owner can do this any time he needs this service. The main thing is to visit the department and follow the registration rules dictated by the traffic police officers. First, you need to write an application for preservation, which will contain basic information about the owner and the car itself.

What to include in the application:

car data (VIN number, make and model of car);
license plates to be retained;
your personal data.

If necessary, your numbers can be stored in the traffic police department

A special space will be provided on the application form for the information listed above. The text of the application itself can be written in any form, expressing a request to retain the specified license plates for the time allocated by law. At the end, the application must be confirmed by the date of preparation and the signature of the applicant.

List of documents that will be required:

personal passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation or a foreigner;
OSAGO (insurance policy);
car registration certificate;
PTS (vehicle passport).

The list of required documents is small. Any law-abiding car owner can collect them and return them in the shortest possible time.

How much do you need to pay

Storage itself is free, but when submitting an application, a citizen is required to pay a state fee of 2,000 rubles. This will be the price when actual payment is made to traffic police officers directly at the department.

If the license plates available to the car owner do not pass the inspector's inspection, you will need to pay for duplicates or refuse the service. Prices for physical media for numbers can vary from 600 to 1300 rubles per plate, but the total price for a complete set rarely exceeds 2000 rubles.

The total maximum that a driver will spend on the annual storage of his license plates, taking into account their possible replacement with new ones, is 4,000 rubles. This is a small amount, which is very beneficial to the owner.

Is it possible to extend the shelf life

360 days is an impressive period of storage of license plates in the traffic police, but circumstances are different, you may not even have time to meet the deadline for a calendar year. Unfortunately, you cannot increase the shelf life directly during the process. If the driver wants to get additional time, only re-registration will help him.

Simply extending the deadline will not work; you will need to pay the state fee again and resubmit the package of documents

Conclusion

Summarizing the above, we get:

If desired, you can keep the registration plate of the car if you sell the car.
The storage period for license plates in the traffic police in 2019 is 360 days.
When writing an application, you will have to pay a state fee of 2000 rubles.
The deadline cannot be extended. If necessary, you will need to fill out an application and pay the cost of the service again.

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Storing numbers in the traffic police: are the current rules legal, the court will decide

A citizen of the Russian Federation appealed to the Supreme Court, who believes that the current norms contradict the Civil Code.

The rules for registering vehicles in the traffic police departments are suspected of being illegal. The fact is that the latest edition of this document limits the possibilities for storing license plates. A resident of the Jewish Autonomous Region filed a corresponding complaint with the Supreme Court, who lost his state registration plates, although he intended to keep the number for himself in order to later use it when registering another car. The court will hear the case next week, March 28.

Let's describe the situation. The registration of the car owner’s car was terminated in 2014, the corresponding decision was made by the regional State Traffic Safety Inspectorate due to the fact that inspectors identified “unauthorized changes in the design”, we are talking about “non-factory” seams on the car frame. Two years passed and the citizen decided to deposit the registration plates from this car with the traffic police: this opportunity is provided for those who want to use the license plate on subsequent cars. But the plaintiff’s department not only refused to take them, but also confiscated the signs themselves, and by that time the numbers were wanted.

At first, the car owner contacted the Ministry of Internal Affairs of his region several times and asked to remove the license plates from the search database, as well as to return the state signs, however, he achieved nothing. As a result, at the end of 2018, he received a response from the department, according to which his numbers were disposed of. The situation did not suit him, so he appealed to the Supreme Court, demanding that the current rules for vehicle registration, enshrined in Order No. 399 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, be declared illegal.

The fact is that this order appeared only in 2018, and at the time the registration of a Russian citizen’s car was stopped, the old registration rules were still in effect (order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of 2008). Judging by the plaintiff’s appeal to the Supreme Court, these norms allowed the number to be deposited at any time after cancellation of registration, while the new order introduced a restriction. According to it, license plates can be deposited only for one year after the vehicle is deregistered.

As Kommersant reports, in addition, the driver believes that the current norms are contrary to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. According to him, a “relationship of depositor and custodian” arises between the citizen depositing the license plates and the traffic police department. The role of the relevant agreement is performed by the statement of the car owner. In this case, the storage period must be specified in the contract, and if it is not, then it is considered unlimited. But according to the current version of the order, it is 360 days (previously it was limited to 180 days, and until 2013 - 30 days).

According to the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Supreme Court, Gaik Maryan, the claim of a resident of the Jewish Autonomous Region will most likely not be satisfied. He explained that according to the old standards, it was necessary to deposit the license plates immediately after the vehicle registration was cancelled, and not at any time, as the plaintiff claims. Whereas the new rules allow you to do this within 360 days.

The legal aspect is also important: the fact is that state signs are not the property of the car owner, because he pays the state duty for the registration action, and not for purchasing license plates. The signs are (and remain after assigning a number) part of the registration system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Gayk Maryan also reminded that citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to retain the license plates from their old car, however, if the storage period (360 days) expires and the driver does not register another car with them, the registration number will be transferred to another car owner. It is for this reason that citizens do not pay for the storage of state signs.

At the beginning of August 2019, new car registration rules will come into force. According to them, the region code in license plates will again be linked to the owner’s registration. That is, there will no longer be an opportunity to register a car with a “non-local” license plate, as it is now.