A plan that would have required Ohioans to replace their license plates every seven years has been scrapped.
Public-safety officials also have abandoned the idea of recalling bicentennial and gold-lined plates this December.
The license-plate changes were not included in the two-year budget proposal that Gov. John Kasich unveiled this week, said Jim Lynch, a spokesman in the Ohio Office of Budget and Management.
Joe Andrews, communications director for the Ohio Department of Public Safety, said the changes that had been under consideration were now far down his department’s to-do list this budget term.
“It was never a hard-and-fast request,” Andrews said. “It was not one of our top priorities by any means.”
Ohio law requires motorists to replace license plates if they are severely deteriorated or illegible. In Ohio, a new set of plates comes with an $11.75 price.
The recall would have required motorists to pay $10 to replace their plates. More than 2 million people would have been affected by the recall, costing Ohioans millions of dollars in replacement fees over the next two fiscal years.
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