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You can get a ticket if your bike rack blocks your licence plate
Police don’t like it when you have too much on your plate – including a rear-mounted bike rack.
In every province it’s against the law to have anything covering your licence plates, whether you realize it or not.
“Police vehicles are all equipped with automatic licence-plate readers, so they need to be able to scan the licence plates to look for [expired and suspended licences] and warrants,” said Kyla Lee, a Vancouver criminal lawyer.