The New Hampshire Department of Motor vehicles has informed a local small business owner that when it comes time to renew his current vanity plates he will be denied?
(Seacoast Online) Owner of Granite State Growler Tours, (David) Adams already has the vanity plate BEERBUS on a 14-passenger bus he uses to drive customers to craft breweries between Newburyport, Mass., and York, Maine, with stops in Portsmouth.
The DMV’s updated policy states that it will not permit plates that make reference to “intoxicants.” But beer is a legal beverage, licensed and advertised legally throughout the state, as is Liquor, to which an astute observer remarked (on facebook) …
“What a joke. The State has no problem putting large signs on the highways advertising the “intoxicants” they themselves are selling, right on the highways mind you.”
Should we expect the NH DMV to begin lobbying to remove all highway signage directing people, with or without the word ‘beer’ on their license plate, to NH State liquor stores….because they make reference to intoxicants?
No. But they have made the process of getting a vanity plate more burdensome. Imagine that. A clueless bureaucracy with hypocritical rules making something that used to be simple more difficult and unpleasant.
Your tax dollars at work.
H/T Susan Olsen
