TEXAS: No more Front License Plates Required after September 1, 2007!
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Finally! Just wait 35 days until this Act Takes Effect:
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodo...l/HB01666I.htm
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the number of license plates to be issued for and displayed on a motor vehicle. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 502, Transportation Code, is amended by adding Section 502.010 to read as follows: Sec. 502.010. ISSUANCE AND DISPLAY OF LICENSE PLATE. (a) Notwithstanding anything in this code to the contrary, including Section 502.180, the department shall issue only one license plate for attachment at the rear of the vehicle for which the plate is issued. (b) Notwithstanding anything in this code to the contrary, including Section 502.404(a), a person is entitled to operate on a public highway a vehicle that displays only one license plate if the plate is attached at the rear of the vehicle. A person may operate on a public highway a vehicle that displays two license plates if both plates were assigned by the department for the registration period as a set of plates. (c) In any provision of this code that relates to the issuance or display of "license plates," "plates," or a "set of plates," the term means only one license plate. SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act regarding the issuance of license plates by the Texas Department of Transportation applies only to the issuance of license plates by the department for a registration period beginning on or after the effective date of this Act. For a registration period that begins before the effective date of this Act, the department shall issue license plates as required by the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
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The front license place saved by *** once--not on my car. I got rear ended and the guy ran off. What he didn't know was that his front plate fell off and was sitting in the street. I picked it up and gave it to the cops, they found the guy.
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I remember a couple of years ago, on the parking lot, while I was gone, someone slightly hit me with a front license plate, so it left the number printed in my rear bumper cover. I did not do anything about that though.
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huge gray area for a while...
basically means if you were assigned two license plates, you are supposed to use both, however, if they only gave you one, you are set...
I got two no front license plate tickets while in Texas...
this bill was supposed to go through like two years ago and didn't get passed...
the one nice thing is that this allows you to only run one and they can't pull you over because of it... although after some time, no one will have two plates at all...
here in Nevada, we have a kickass front license plate law - if there is a place for them, you have to have it, if no place for the plate, you don't need it...
basically means if you were assigned two license plates, you are supposed to use both, however, if they only gave you one, you are set...
I got two no front license plate tickets while in Texas...
this bill was supposed to go through like two years ago and didn't get passed...
the one nice thing is that this allows you to only run one and they can't pull you over because of it... although after some time, no one will have two plates at all...
here in Nevada, we have a kickass front license plate law - if there is a place for them, you have to have it, if no place for the plate, you don't need it...
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I got pulled over 2 days after moving to Corpus from Temple. The cop followed me to my house and pulled me over in my driveway. He said it was because I didn't have a front plate. He then informed me about the "bill that had not yet been passed" saying that I wouldn't need one if it passed BUT until then I need a front plate. It's like a $65 ticket.
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I got pulled over 2 days after moving to Corpus from Temple. The cop followed me to my house and pulled me over in my driveway. He said it was because I didn't have a front plate. He then informed me about the "bill that had not yet been passed" saying that I wouldn't need one if it passed BUT until then I need a front plate. It's like a $65 ticket.
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Texas Transportation Code § 502.404. OPERATION OF VEHICLE WITHOUT LICENSE PLATE OR REGISTRATION INSIGNIA. (a) A person commits an offense if the person operates on a public highway during a registration period a passenger car or commercial motor vehicle that does not display two license plates, at the front and rear of the vehicle.
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(18) "Public highway" includes a road, street, way, thoroughfare, or bridge: (A) that is in this state; (B) that is for the use of vehicles; (C) that is not privately owned or controlled; and (D) over which the state has legislative jurisdiction under its police power.
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I would suggest to contact Fred Brown (author of the HB 1666).
http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/dist14/brown.htm
http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/dist14/brown.htm