Across New York City, drivers of cars with illegal out-of-state license plates or no plates at all are more likely to have outstanding tolls and fines, speed in school zones and block fire hydrants, according to a new City Council report.

The report found these “ghost cars,” as they’re commonly called by city officials, make it difficult for authorities to enforce the law because of their harder-to-trace nature. The vehicles also occupy limited parking space and cost the city millions of dollars in lost revenue each year. A previous city comptroller analysis estimated that number at more than $100 million.

“It’s one of these issues, kind of like smoke shops, that all New Yorkers Yorkers have noticed these plates crop up, and then there wasn’t much enforcement, so they get away with it

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