Can a motor vehicle with no license plates be stopped by a police officer?

(Veh. Code, 26708, subd. (b)(3).) The question for us is not whether the vehicle was in full compliance with the law at the time of the stop, but whether the officer had articulable suspicion that it was not. [Citation.]" (People v. Dotson (2009) 179 Cal.App.4th 1045, 1049.)

"Absence of license plates provides reasonable suspicion that the driver is violating the law. Unless there are other circumstances that dispel that suspicion, that resolve any ambiguities in the legal status of the vehicle's conformance with applicable laws, the officer may stop the vehicle and investigate without violating the driver's Fourth Amendment rights. [Citation.] The uninvestigated chance that a temporary operating permit might be displayed somewhere on the vehicle is not such a dispelling circumstance." (People v. Dotson, supra, 179 Cal.App.4th at p. 1052.)