Take off ‘NBI@75’ plates now

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is reminding motorists still using the agency’s 75th anniversary commemorative plates to immediately remove them from their vehicles.

The NBI warned that the continued use of the expired license plates would make their users criminally liable.

In a statement on Saturday, bureau officials stressed that the commemorative plates had already expired in April after the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) disapproved early last month a request to extend their validity.

In a June 8 letter to the NBI, the DOTC denied requests to extend the validity period of the two plates issued by the agency in November 2010 in line with its 75th anniversary.

One of the plates issued was marked “NBI@75” while the other also featured the anniversary logo.

The NBI advised motorists whose vehicles still bear the licenses plates “to immediately remove them from their cars to avoid getting entangled with authorities.”

Stiff penalties await violators, the bureau said. Jeannette I. Andrade