Bakersfield Municipal Code Ch. 9.26 Hubcaps

Sections: 9.26.010 Placing identifying marks. 9.26.020 Obliterating identifying marks unlawful. 9.26.030 Selling or possessing hubcaps with obliterated identifying marks.

It shall be lawful for any person to place or have a distinguishing or identifying mark, name, or number on any hubcap of a motor vehicle, which number may, but need not, correspond to the serial number, license number or other distinguishable number lawfully placed upon a vehicle. (Prior code § 10.30.010)

No person shall intentionally deface, destroy, alter, obliterate or permit any person as his agent or otherwise to intentionally deface, destroy, alter or obliterate any distinguishing or identifying mark, number or name placed on a hubcap or on any portion thereof. (Prior code § 10.30.020)

No person, except as provided in this section, shall knowingly buy, receive, keep, dispose of, destroy, throw away, sell, exchange, offer for sale, or have in his possession any hubcap of a motor vehicle when any distinguishing or identifying mark, name or number placed on said hubcap or any portion thereof has been altered, defaced, obliterated or destroyed, unless a report of such fact is duly made to the police department of the city if said person is a resident of said city or such hubcap is generally kept or maintained in said city. (Prior code § 10.30.030)