Miata Mailing List: March 1997, Message #131
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Subject: Texas Law [was Caught!  (Front license plate)]

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For any that may doubt, here is an excerpt from the Texas Transportation

Code (taken directly from the State of Texas web site):



Sec. 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, that have been:



              (1) assigned by the department for the period; or



              (2) validated by a registration insignia issued by the

department that establishes that the vehicle is registered for the

period.



Sorry for the bad news.  



HC wrote:

> 

> > I was recently told by a salesman at my dealer (Roger Beasley Mazda in

> > Austin, Texas) that the law requiring front license tags had been

> > repealed in Texas.  A quick look at the Texas statutes confirmed that

> > this was incorrect.

> 

> I was told the same thing by the Dallas dealership where I got my

> car.  Note that the car used to have two plates.  When I asked about

> taking the front plate off, he said I could.  (Now that I think back,

> I guess he really wanted to say anything to make me happy since

> I had been there 6 times with 3 test drives over the course of 2

> months before I agreed to sit down and "talk numbers" with him. :)

> 

> HC

> Red 92A

> Team Lone Star