Seat belts were always a difficult ticket for me to issue because you often have to be close enough to see that the person is not wearing one; or they are usually traveling in the opposite direction as you are, thus not allowing you enough time to safely turn around and follow them to issue the citation. However, in the state of North Carolina, issuing tickets for vehicle registration and vehicle inspections were/are easy because we have color coded stickers that are affixed to the rear license plate of a vehicle, making it easy to distinguish when someone has or hasn't kept their vehicle up to date. Regarding insurance, this is a big one. Determining whether or not a vehicle has up to date insurance is done by computer. Typically, a police officer will be driving behind a vehicle or be within view of several vehicles in which he or she can run the license plate number through a specialized computer system. This computer system will then bring up all of the information on that particular vehicle such as who it is registered to, how many tickets the person who owns the vehicle has received, whether or not the person has been arrested as well as when the insurance is up. Police officers are also able to look at a person's driver's license to determine whether or not that person's license to drive has been revoked or suspended, in which case, the person can be arrested on the spot.
Once a police officer determines that a license plate for a particular vehicle reveals that the vehicle has an insurance stop (or expired insurance), the police officer is required by law to pull the vehicle over, double check the insurance information with the driver (because sometimes there is simply a lapse in insurance coverage), and then inform the driver that their license plate will be seized right then and there. While the person driving the car will not be arrested for expired insurance, they will also not be able to drive their vehicle from that point on because it is illegal to drive a vehicle on public roadways when it is not insured. The police officer will then unscrew the license plate and take it with them. As for the person, they will need to call someone for a ride or if the police officer is nice and the person lives within close proximity to where they were stopped, the police officer might give that person a ride back to their home.
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