SPRINGFIELD ––New, smaller renewal stickers are being distributed to passenger car, B-truck and motorcycle owners who have license plates expiring in March, Secretary of State Jesse White said today. The sticker size was changed to accommodate the new design plates, which will be distributed for passenger cars later in the year.
To accommodate the new sticker's placement on current, old-design plates, motorists will receive a blank sticker with the smaller renewal sticker. The blank sticker must first be affixed to cover the old, larger sticker, and then the new renewal sticker should be affixed to the right portion of the blank sticker.
White said motorists can purchase the new renewal stickers with a touch tone telephone and a credit card. "TouchTone Renewal" allows all motorists receiving pre-printed renewals to order stickers conveniently, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Passenger car, B-truck and motorcycle owners also can buy their March 2002 renewal stickers at 117 secretary of state license facilities, five secretary of state mobile units or at financial institutions that sell stickers. Stickers may be purchased at about 2,500 financial institutions statewide for a slight additional fee.
It is now too late to mail applications and guarantee delivery of new stickers before the
March 31 expiration date. Anyone driving a vehicle on or after April 1 with an expired March 2001 sticker will be subject to a $75 fine for improper registration.
Pre-printed renewal applications have been mailed to 900,640 passenger car, B-truck and motorcycle owners who renew their registrations in March.
Instructions for motorists are printed on the renewal applications and posted at Secretary of State facilities. The 2002 expiration renewal sticker has black numbers on a white reflective background.
A list of the facilities selling stickers is attached.
