(a) No person shall operate or park a motor vehicle upon the streets of this Municipality if it displays a distinctive number or identification mark which:
(1) Is fictitious;
(2) Is a counterfeit or an unlawfully made copy of any distinctive number or identification mark;
(3) Belongs to another motor vehicle, provided that this section does not apply to a person who fails to comply with the transfer of registration provisions of Ohio R. C. 4503.12.
(ORC 4549.08)
(b) Upon the transfer of ownership of a motor vehicle, the registration of such motor vehicle expires, and the original owner shall immediately remove the license plates from such motor vehicle. The transfer of the registration and, where applicable, the license plates from the motor vehicle for which they originally were issued to a succeeding motor vehicle purchased by the same person in whose name the original registration and license plates were issued shall be done within a period not to exceed thirty days. During that thirty-day period, the license plates from the motor vehicle for which they originally were issued may be displayed on the succeeding motor vehicle, and the succeeding motor vehicle may be operated on the public roads and highways in this Municipality.
(ORC 4503.12; Ord. 700-96. Passed 10-8-96.)