Replacement Warren County decals arriving with April’s 2018 tax bill

Courtesy photo/ Virginia State Police

FRONT ROYAL – When Warren County residents receive their first-half 2018 tax bills next month, there will be a little something extra tucked inside the envelope. Taxpayers will find a shiny, new replacement County vehicle decal.

Warren County Administrator Doug Stanley said recently, at a regular Board of Supervisor’s meeting, that the reissue of decals was necessary after a December, 2017 memo from the Virginia State Police stating Virginia state inspection stickers will no longer be affixed to the bottom center of a vehicle’s windshield.

The move is because of state inspection stickers being relocated to the bottom left corner of the windshield (in front of the driver’s seat). The relocation stems from automobile manufacturers now offering crash avoidance technology in many of their vehicles, which uses the center of the windshield.

The Warren County vehicle decals will also be relocated to the bottom left corner of the windshield to the immediate right of the inspection sticker when viewed from inside the vehicle.

As vehicles are inspected throughout 2018, the Virginia inspection stickers will be relocated to the new location in front of the driver’s seat. Residents may ask the individual at the inspection station to place the County decal in its new location at the same time as the Virginia inspection sticker is placed.

A Virginia State Police Safety Division media release states that certified inspection stations began relocating inspection stickers on Jan. 1, 2018.   The new County decals must be placed in the new location, per Virginia code, by December 31, 2018.