Dayton Daily News

OHIO BMV REJECTED 450 VANITY PLATES IN 2020

- By Laura A. Bischoff Contact this reporter at 614-224-1624 or email laura. bischoff@coxinc.com.

Raunchy. Violent. Racist. Gross.

The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles rejected more than 450 personaliz­ed license plate requests last year — most of which are so nasty we won’t print them in the newspaper.

Still, some Ohioans wanted to drive on public roadways with government-issued plates that described their preferred sex acts or favorite pieces of anatomy.

Potty humor, including POOHPN, got blocked.

Many of the requested plates got tossed out because they added popular acronyms for swear words.

It’s hard enough to get by with a criminal record but at least two people wanted “FELON” as their personaliz­ed plate. Someone else wanted a plate that said “AX MRDRR.” More mild — “I H8T PPL” — didn’t pass either.

And while there is no love lost in Ohio for COVID or 2020, the raunchy references to both were denied.

So what are the Ohio BMV standards?

When reviewing requests for special license plates, the BMV rejects requests that:

■ Contain words, combinatio­ns, and/or phrases that are so profane, obscene, sexually explicit or scatologic­al.

■ Contains words, combinatio­ns, and/phrases that are so offensive that they could reasonably be expected to provoke a violent response from viewers without additional comment.

■ Contains words, combinatio­ns, and/or phrases that advocate immediate lawlessnes­s or advocate lawless activities.

These prohibitio­ns apply to any language, read either frontward or backward.

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