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No more front License Plates

The Texas Law originally required that you have a license plate in the front and back of your car. The attached Article which just passed will now allow you to remove it.... Pass the good news on to all you know who love cars and hate those front plates!


Looks like it passed and goes into effect in September....

> ARTICLE 9. REDUCTION IN NUMBER OF LICENSE PLATES ISSUED
> SECTION 9.01. 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 9.02. The change in law made by this article
> 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 article. For a registration period that
> begins before the effective date of this article, the department
> shall issue license plates as required by the law in effect
> immediately before the effective date of this article, and the
> former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
> SECTION 9.03. This article takes effect September 1, 2005.