They issued a registration certificate for the car, but the text was printed with an offset to the fold line, which caused some characters to switch to the other side and some to be difficult to read. Do these shortcomings need to be remedied?
Ivan, Kemerovo region
The head of the Main Directorate for Road Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Police Lieutenant General Mikhail Chernikov, answers questions from readers. |
The shortcomings you described are due to a technical error.
According to the rules for the state registration of vehicles in the registration departments of the traffic police, approved by Government Decree No. 1764 of December 21, 2019, the correction of a technical error made by the registration department or a specialized organization competent on the basis of an agreement by the manufacturer or representative of a foreign manufacturer in the Russian Federation to sell vehicles manufactured by them is carried out through appropriate amending the State Register of Vehicles and issuing a new registration document to the vehicle owner to replace the document with the error.
In this case, no state tax is levied.
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