When you sell or trade in a vehicle you keep the plate. If you are buying a new or used vehicle that plate you kept can be transfered to the vehicle you purchased, you will wait until you are doing the transfer in the tag office or OTC before actually putting the plate on the vehicle because it has not been a signed to the newly purchased vehicle yet. If you purchased the vehicle BEFORE JULY 1ST and there is a plate on it already that you are going to keep...YOU MUST take the plate off and bring inside the tag office so we can see that you have the correct plate...and NO A PHOTO. WILL NOT WORK...OTC says you must bring it inside. THIS IS ONLY ON PUCHASES BEFORE JULY 1ST.
If you've purchased your new car after July 1st, yes you keep your old plate.
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