I am not arguing with you about it. go into the MVO and ask them. most places it is even against the law to even remove the tag and put it back on.If the MVO has it on it's statutes then it will be legal to so. what one patrolman says may not be what another will do
some states have different ways of doing things. most times these things will never effect you , but the next owner goes to do something and this is where the vin# problems show up. There are lots that don't care about the next person though.
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