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Missouri State Highway Patrol encourages citizens to keep vehicle registrations up to date


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While it's just a tiny sticker on your license plate, if you don't keep it up to date, it could cost you some money. (FILE)

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While it's just a tiny sticker on your license plate, if you don't keep it up to date, it could cost you some money.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says one of the things they look for is that your vehicle's registration is up to date and urges you to keep up with required fees.

"It's very important to have an updated registration number one so you're not stopped by law enforcement and issued a citation and number two to eliminate any possible thing the Department of Revenue may access as far as a penalty if you don't have those up to date when you go into re-register," said Troop B Public Information Officer CPL. Justin Dunn.

While there has been some talk of the number of citations going up for lack of registrations, the Highway Patrol says that they haven't seen an increase.

Troopers said are treating it like any other offense.

"I don't see where we've seen an increase in citations throughout the state. The Missouri State Highway Patrol has always taken the safety of our roadways as an important part of our job, so we just basically make sure we enforce those traffic roadways to make sure that the roadways are safer," Dunn said.

If you haven't updated your registration, the patrol encourages you to do so, saying that it helps troopers do their job.

"You having your registration up to date obviously lets us know who the vehicle is registered to, the owner of the vehicle, when it expires, where they live, it gives us a lot of different information from that vehicle registration," Dunn said. "Where if you don't have it up to date, it actually can come back to where it may not be on file through the Department of Revenue or it's been deleted through its system. So we may not know actually who owns the vehicle and where the vehicle originated from."
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