Any ticket that you get may impact your insurance rates, depending on your driving record and your insurance companies policies. Ultimately you, as the driver are responsible for ensuring the plate was valid and are also responsible for the fine. Leaving this in the car rental company's hands was a big mistake. That ticket will now remain on your driving record. Just curious how you determined that the sticker was valid? The officer would usually check the MTO database for the exact expiry date. The sticker had Dec 2015 on it - and when I returned to the rental place they checked it as well a...

Hey. First post - and hopefully not many more in the future! :D Four months ago I rented a vehicle - later that night got pulled over, asked for my licence, handed it over and it was returned to me along with a ticket because the licence plate sticker was out of date. The officer said, 'take it to your rental company, they'll sort it, but I had to issue the ticket to you on your licence.' I check when I'm home, and the licence plate sticker IS valid and in date. Take the car to the rental place the next day, explain what happened and they say, 'it happens, give us the ticket we'll sort it.' So...