Aurora police cracking down on expired vehicle tags, illegal license plates

DENVER (KDVR) — If your vehicle registration is out of date or your plates are illegal, police in Aurora are looking for you.

A campaign to target expired registration and illegal license plates is underway and will continue through the summer, the Aurora Police Department posted on Friday . Officers on motorcycles will be enforcing the vehicle laws weekly.

“We heard you, Aurora. The vehicle registration problem is out of control,” the post reads.

These are the violations that will be targeted, according to the department:

• No registration
• Failure to register vehicle within 90 days of residency
• No license plates attached
• Expired license plates
• Expired temporary permit
• Failed to display valid registration
• Displayed fictitious/stolen plates
• Legally inoperable vehicle (parking violation)

Vehicle registration fines range from $15 to $75, while a plate more than 60 days expired costs $95.50.

For fake, suspended, altered or stolen plates, a violator could face 10 to 90 days in jail and fines between $150 and $300.

Police pointed drivers to the list of county motor vehicle offices and urged the traveling public to get their vehicle registrations in order.

The department said officers issued 23 tickets for registration violations just last week, with the oldest expired plate dating to August 2021.

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