No Front Plate

Omikron

My dealer kept it off for me. I will just deal with ticket/warnings. No nose surgery for my Z

Blonde

I'm too much of a rule-follower so I would have added the front plate, I guess... Besides, I drive kinda fast and figured I wouldn't need any more reasons for them to pull me over.

007MI6

Exactly!

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CC_370z

Go to Highland Village, 2 out of 5 cars do not have front plate.

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Omikron

Breaking the Law

Dont know why I felt the need to link to that... lol

roplusbee

That is why I picked this up............


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sojirovskensi

it's blocking the airway!

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TXSpeedDemon

You only have ot worry about this for 1 more month. then you have 1 year where you can get away with NO LICENSE PLATES AT ALL!!!

Here's the story on how our idiotic state legislative branch has made driving without a license plate an unpunishable offence in 2012:

Texas License Plates Become Optional
Texas legislature accidentally deletes penalty for failing to display a license plate.

Texas license plateA number of special interest groups have fought over the design of specialty license plates in Texas over the past few weeks. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People cheered the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) board last month for rejecting a "Sons of Confederate Veterans" plate the group found racially offensive. An American Indian group blasted a plate honoring the Buffalo Soldiers, a regiment of black troops who served in the US Army from the end of the Civil War through 1951. These plate conflicts may turn out to be unnecessary because beginning on January 1, 2012, the use of license plates in the Lone Star State becomes optional.

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, current law mandates the display of two license plates -- one at the front and another at the rear of a vehicle. Failure to comply is a misdemeanor offense punishable by a $200 fine under Texas Code Section 502.404. As part of a sweeping revision of the state vehicle code, however, that provision will soon disappear.

House Bill 2357 was intended as a non-controversial 234-page update to existing law. It passed the state House on May 29 voted 139-6 and the state Senate 31-0, receiving the signature of Governor Rick Perry (R) on June 17.

"The motor vehicle statutes were codified in 1995, but there has not been a complete reorganization of substance since before that time," Representative Joseph Pickett (D-El Paso) wrote in his justification of the legislation. "This bill directly addresses the problem of the statutes being outdated in regard to automation and organization."

As part of the update, the new law deleted the license plate statute, returning parts of it to Section 502.473 and 504.943. In moving around the legal language, the bill went through the entire legislative process without anybody noticing that a key line was deleted without providing a replacement: "An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $200."

Without the line, it is not clear whether police officers or courts would have the authority to impose a punishment on drivers who chose not to display license plates or registration stickers, especially in jurisdictions that still use red light cameras. Driving with a false or altered plate remains a misdemeanor, however. Lawmakers will not have a chance to remedy their mistake until January 8, 2013 when the legislature reconvenes, unless Governor Perry calls a special session specifically to address the license plate issue.

A copy of the legislation as enacted is available in a 650k PDF file at the source link below.
http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2011/tx-hb2357.pdf

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I haven't read the whole bill yet to verify this is true, but armed with a printout of this article and bill (assuming it's true) would get any case dismissed between Jan 1 2012 - Jan 8th 2013!!!

Also means free rides on the Tollway for all of next year for any car without a toll tag or plates! I'll kindly accept your donations in the form of rep points

TXSpeedDemon

Never mind, I"m too late. someone else already posted this up!

Ron

ha!

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haitech

My salesman asked if I wanted my front plate on. I told him no. We walk outside and someone already placed it on. Wtf. Then I told him to take it off and the bracket made dimples in my new front bumper. Sigh. Had them fill it with touch up paint and went on my way.

Splinter

my car already came with the plate on too so i got the motorized bracket and center mounted it in the grill

made a diy too Here

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