Starting Friday, the Denver Police Department plans to conduct a month-long enforcement campaign to, once again, enforce expired license plate tags throughout the city.

It is the second such enforcement campaign Denver police have conducted within the past few months, including one in July. This despite city ordinance keeping Denver authorities from making traffic stops just based on expired license tags.

For November’s month-long enforcement period, DPD officials in a news release said it is in response to residential feedback over expired license tags.

The enforcement period “provides DPD officers the opportunity to address and take action on the community’s vocalized frustrations over drivers with expired license plate tags and expired temporary plates,” police officials said in a statement.

Getting pulled over in Denver for expired license plates comes with a $95 fine.

During the previous enforcement period in the final week of September, police pulled over hundreds of drivers. In that time, police cited 339 drivers for expired or fictitious license plates, according to DPD.

During the weeklong enforcement in Denver, DPD Traffic officers cited 339 drivers for expired and/or fictitious license plates.  Some of the oldest plates include May of 2019, August of 2021, July and October of 2022, police said.

In the July enforcement period, Denver police officials said they issued 430 citations and witnessed “a significant increase of vehicle owners registering their vehicles.”

A low-level traffic stops policy, passed by Denver City Council in May, limited police from pulling over drivers with expired license plates. Officials reasoned that the move avoids wasting the police’s time on traffic stops for lower level offenses. Instead, it allows for more time to enforce higher level crimes, such as reckless driving, DUI’s and traffic signal offenses, officials said.

During the one-month period, police said, DPD is “temporarily exercising a clause in its low-level traffic stops policy. Outside this special enforcement period, DPD officers may still stop drivers who have expired plates or temporary plates if there are additional concerns.”

Police can conduct stops for low level offenses if the driver is suspected of another serious crime. Also, a clause in the new policy allows Denver police to conduct one-week enforcement campaigns. A one-month grace period following expiration is allowed for regular license plates, but not for temporary plates.

“Also, missing license plates remain a priority for the Denver Police Department and do not fall within the low-level traffic stop policy,” a department spokesperson said.