Stickers on Cars Must Be Removed Early Next Month

All non-essential stickers will be stripped from Massachusetts cars by local inspection centers under a recent directive from the State Reglstry of Motor Vehicles. Inspection centers, however, have been instructed to leave on stickers for the University parking lot.

The order means that decorative stickers on the front windshield extolling the virtues of such things as the Grand Canyon and Harvard University must be removed. Small transparencies low down on the rear window will not be touched by inspection centers.

All cars registered in Massachusetts must go through an inspection at an authorized center before November 1. The offending stickers will be removed by garage attendants during the inspections.

Some inspection stations have been removing University parking stickers, but they have been ordered to leave these alone by the Registry of Motor Vehicles.