LDPR deputy Alexander Sherin submitted for consideration to the State Duma of the Russian Federation a bill on holding auctions for the sale of license plates of a "special" series for vehicles.
A "special" series means characters that consist of the same letters or numbers, or include two zeros or one zero to the left with a repetition of the region code in the series.
Any citizen participating in the auction will be able to reserve such a number. The responsibility for organizing and holding auctions will be assigned to the State Traffic Inspectorate. Both individuals and legal entities will be able to take part in it. The initial cost of the lot is at the level of 10% of the state duty for vehicle registration. Information about the rooms put up for sale will be published 7 days before the start of the auction, which will take place 24 hours - from 15:00 to 15:00 the next day.
It will be prohibited to resell "nice" numbers, to use them on state or municipal transport. The money received from the sale of "beautiful" numbers is proposed to be directed to the road funds of the regions.
The explanatory note to the document notes that such an initiative was submitted to the State Duma back in 2015, but the idea has not yet been implemented, and illegal income and the shadow market for the sale of state numbers still exist.
If adopted, the law will enter into force 90 days after its official publication.
