Another question is how other states will accept these plates. Back in 2012, I got stopped by a Texas Highway Patrol officer who said that my SD license plate was expired.
This was due to the fact that my tag had an ‘11’ sticker on it. I tried to explain to him the ‘11’ was for November, the month my tags renewed, and not the year. The sticker color does change every year.
I showed him the ‘2012’ in smaller letters on the sticker and said that SD sent out new physical tags every ten years and just stickers the other nine. But he wasn’t buying it.
Finally, I asked him to either call SD or his supervisor. When he refused I pulled out my phone and started to dial. When he asked who I was calling, I said ‘911’ since he wouldn’t call anybody.
At that point, he went back to his car, made a call, and a few minutes his supervisor showed up, looked up something online, pretty much called him an idiot, apologized to me, and sent me on my way.
I got the feeling he had done something like this before. So I can just see what he would do with a tag that keeps changing its display.
Nevada does the same thing.