17/09/2024
๐๐๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ก๐ข๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ซ๐ฒ/๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has extended the deadline on the prohibition against the use of improvised and temporary plates for motor vehicle owners.
Instead of the September 1 deadline, the prohibition will start its implementation on December 31 this year.
But LTO Chief, Assistant Secretary Atty. Vigor D. Mendoza II said this should not be an excuse for motor vehicle owners who have already available license plates to install them in their motor vehicles.
โWe ask the motorists to claim and install their respective license plates as soon as they are available either in the car dealerships and replacement plates in our offices,โ said Assec. Mendoza.
The LTO earlier issued a memorandum circular against the use of improvised and temporary plates after an initial investigation revealed that registered owners of vehicles, especially the newly-bought ones, are not claiming their license plates from motor vehicle dealerships.
Thousands of license plates remain unclaimed in various motor vehicle dealerships and in a meeting with car dealers last month, the car dealers said their clients are unable to claim the plates despite their repeated message to them.
Assec Mendoza said the installation of license plates are also the LTO contribution to the crime prevention measures especially that some vehicles are being used in criminal activities.
โWala na pong backlog sa mga four-wheel vehicles so there is no reason for these vehicle owners not to claim and install them in their vehicles,โ said Assec Mendoza.
โAng natitira na lamang pong backlog ay mga plaka sa mga motorsiklo at ito po ay ang focus namin ngayon in compliance with the directive from President Marcos to address all the backlog on license plates by June next year,โ he added.
Assec Mendoza, however, stressed that the deadline extension will not diminish their effort to aggressively come up with measures to deliver all the unclaimed license plates to the rightful owners.
He said he already instructed the LTO Regional Directors and District Office heads to coordinate with the local government units for the distribution of the license plates. #
