Dopuszczalność stosowania treści o charakterze religijnym na indywidualnych tablicach rejestracyjnych pojazdów samochodowych w Polsce
Accessibility of using of the religious content on the individual registration plates of vehicles in Poland

Summary/Abstract: According to the aforementioned legal regulations it results that the Polish legal system allows registration of a vehicle with an individual registration plate from as late as the 21st of September of 2002. The individuality of the registration plates consists in granting by decision of state authority solely letter and number that both constitute the distinguishing feature of each voivodship. The rest of characters in the individual registration plate is specified by an interested owner of given vehicle but always according to the binding Polish law. The regulation in Poland provides that the individual distinguishing feature of the registration plate should consist of word, abbreviation or expression formulated in Polish language of the length of maximally five characters and without any offensive text or content inconsistent with the social co-existence principles. The administrative law does not contain its own autonomous definition of “the social co-existence principles”. Therefore, by interpreting of usage of these principles within the administrative law it is necessary to apply the way of understanding of them present in article 5 of the Civil Code altogether with the jurisprudence of the general and administrative courts of law and with the doctrine of the subject. Moreover, the expression “the social co-existence principles” is “joint term which includes numerous general clauses” in connection with the moral norms. In author’s opinion the potential content of the religious character on the individual registration plates can be divided into two categories on the basis of its collision with the social co-existence principles. The first group contains the examples that are absolutely unacceptable, as for instance: “JESUS”, “ALLAH”, “BUDDHA” or the abbreviations such as: “JPII”, “PIOX”, “JOHN23”. The second category includes the registration plates that contain the content alien to our religious and legal culture, such us: “ZEUS”, “ARES”, “PTAH”. The latter ones are admissible.

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