State of Michigan, is a private entity, such as a Home Owner's Association, allowed to run a license plate to find the owner?

The folks who work on the premises know who lives there and who doesn't, so to start they would have a good indication that the car doesn't belong there. They would also know who the car belongs to.

The HOA would first search their records, because everyone's tag is on file. They would call the police to do it if they didn't find the tag in their records. They have the tags of everyone who lives in the community in their files. So they would look up the tag in their files first. If nothing related comes up in their search, they could call the cops and request that they check the car out.

If the car is sitting with expired tags, they won't even do a lookup. Expired tags are illegal. Car gets towed, and you can bet you agreed to this when you moved into the place.

No, you do not have any special powers more than any other citizen or land owner. What you do have, however, is the ability to send a representative down to the police station and ask for assistance. If you suspect someone is trespassing - as in entertaining someone who is banned from the property, sleeping over without authorization, or parking their vehicle without being a guest of a resident, you have reason to report them to police and ask for help.

You'll never know until you ask- but you as an HOA do not have any more powers than anyone who wants to know who is parking in their driveway, if that clears it up any.

Hello

Normally you can't but places like HOA employ companies that look after their parking. So normally it would not be the HOA that would make the search, I'm not sure that they can, But the Parking company can and if you are illegally parked they are the ones who will deal with the fines and if you don't pay take you to court. The easiest way to tell is to look around as they must display signs warning who they are and what the fine would be. If there are none they cannot fine you

Andy C

NO To get the proper information go to a local Police station and ask Them.

Through a proper source you bet your life they can as a means of protecting the community they serve.

if there is a specific reason ask the police and they will deal with it.