aldixie

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Hi Guy's,

Did you see on the news last night that Jersey village police put two people in jail because they didn't have front license tags/ valid tags. I have my front tag displayed in my windshield. I think Eric is the only one legal among us without a front tag because he has his licensed as antique.

Just a heads up if your travelling through Jersey village.

esc

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Are you usre they arrested them for no front plate, or did they pull them over for no front plate and arrest them for something else...like no insurance?

Font plate...never had one, never will. I love driving an antique!

FNFAL308

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It seems it is absolutely true

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pa...Y&pageId=1.1.1

"A spokesperson with Jersey Village Police Department acknowledges the arrests but says officers have the right to arrest anyone for violating the law.
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BADMAN

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It's called "income generation".

DENN_SHAH

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"A spokesperson with Jersey Village Police Department acknowledges the arrests but says officers have the right to arrest anyone for violating the law."

what do you want to bet they would not even ticket, much less arrest another cop for no front tag on his personal car.

i wish we could get rid the the stupid front tag here.

Kevin84Z28

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Here's what the Texas Vehicle Code states:


§ 547.004. GENERAL OFFENSES. (a) A person commits an
offense that is a misdemeanor if the person operates or moves or, as
an owner, knowingly permits another to operate or move, a vehicle
that:
(1) is unsafe so as to endanger a person;
(2) is not equipped in a manner that complies with the
vehicle equipment standards and requirements established by this
chapter; or
(3) is equipped in a manner prohibited by this
chapter.
(b) A person commits an offense that is a misdemeanor if the
person operates a vehicle equipped with an item of vehicle
equipment that the person knows has been determined in a compliance
proceeding under Section 547.206 to not comply with a department
standard.
(c) A court may dismiss a charge brought under this section
if the defendant:
(1) remedies the defect before the defendant's first
court appearance; and
(2) pays an administrative fee not to exceed $10.
(d) Subsection (c) does not apply to an offense involving a
commercial motor vehicle.


That is an extremely ridgid law. But why is it on the book? It was written in 1995 and amended in 2005. Why do the people of Texas allow it?

FNFAL308

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Now, you can't be from The Peoples Republic Of Kalifornia asking that question! JHFC

We put up with it for the same reason everyone else does everywhere- not enough people with the ***** to stand up. Each successive generation popping out now has less and less ***** and that is just what the liberals want.

BTW: I don't have a front plate - no where to hang it. Have not been stopped yet but there is one around here that seems to be itching to stop me. whatever.

Reid Fleming

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http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/vi/Misc/faq/faq_item.htm#plates

How many license plates am I required to display?
State law requires that you display two (2) license plates, one to the front and one to the rear. Placement or mounting of license plates is not defined.

Not defined.....So in theory you could mount your front plate on your back seat and it would pass. Better yet, mount the plates back to back in the rear bumper spot. Your front plate facing forward, your rear plate facing back.

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No kidding. Look at the surrounding states. NM, OK, LA, and AR don't have front plates. Yet Texas does. Booooooo.

Kevin84Z28

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That I agree with.

Reid Fleming

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My dad is an ex police officer. I asked him about the no front plate deal. He said he never gave out a no front plate ticket. And that it said more about the member than it did the recipient.

Go figure. You can ride a motorcycle with no front plate and no helmet, but you can't drive a car with no front plate. Wait until some lawyer driving a C6 Vette gets a ticket for this.

How can you have an expired front license plate anyways?

esc

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I couldn't agree more. Case and point, the time I got a ticket from one of Bellaire's finest for no front and "obscured" rear when it didn't pass the white glove test.

ZONES89RS

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Well, it is like this, you must have a front plate, it must be visible from 2 and 20 feet, weather you have to get down on your hands and knees or not. Mine sits in the front windshield.

Reid Fleming

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The license plate is already on the front window (windshield sticker)

FNFAL308

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I have heard of people putting it on the air dam under the nose and that it is legal to put it there.

Will it really pass there? Wouldn't the cop just say that it is not reasonably displayed? I think you'd have to lay down to see it there.

That might be worse than not having one at all if it pisses the cop off.

Reid Fleming

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How long ago was that and how much was the ticket? Sometimes I wonder if not running a plate is worth it. Did it effect your insurance rates?

My plate is clearly visible from 2 and 20 feet.....when I open my closet door.

esc

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It was 20 years ago and they were $40.00 each.

FNFAL308

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Has anyone ever heard of someone driving a vette get a ticket for no front license? I have yet to see a vette WITH a front license. Vettes all over The Woodlands with no fronts.

esc

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You know. I have driven my Camaro for over 26 years without a front plate. I've gotten tickets 4 times. Every time the "officer" pulled me over not for no front pate, but because he had already decided that he wanted to give me a hard time. I was going to get a ticket for something, even if he had to make it up. So I was just as happy to give him something easy to write me up for. It isn't a moving violation, the fine is (well used to be) cheap and and it pacified the cop.

Reid Fleming

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Just to clarify, when Texans talk about "tags" are they referring to license plates or registration stickers or both?

esc

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Plates.

FNFAL308

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Best reason I've heard yet to continue to run frontless. I do agree that if you get stopped you are getting one for something. The sad part is if you drive a corvette, jag, beemer, etc you don't even get stopped. AND, I stand out like a sore thumb (or middle finger) driving through The Woodlands going to work every day. I guess not as bad as driving the bubba truck though...

19redbird89

I agree with everyone on the front license plate idea. It should not be a requirement and I will say that my car has never had one. Never will and neither did my truck. I was pulled over numerous times by state troopers between dallas and wichita falls. Never given a ticket only a "hey thats a nice truck, you know you need a front license plate right? I say yes sir and he lets me go on my way. Never a ticket though and not even a piece of paper as a warning.

Brandon

sailtexas186548

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i live in clear lake shores, i think our "city" is 3/4 of a mile long, and we have oh i want to say 26 cops, they are NOTORIOUS for giving out stupid tickets, once i got a written warning for leaving my bike on the side or the road in a boat yard while chasing a friends escaped dog, the bike was there for 8 min tops, and i explained to the cops, and he still wrote me up for something i dont even understand, but anyways they never give me trouble about my lack of a front plate, and i drive fast and my car is loud, so i think if you get a ticket for it, the cop jsut feels like being a complete ****

Stephen

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Here's how you Camaro guys can get around a ticket....

<flip switch>
"Officer sir....I believe you may be mistaken. Look again, please. Unless my plate fell off, it is there."

http://www.hotrodders.com/gallery/sh...o/18718/cat/50





For the Firebird owners...This isn't a hidden plate, but uses 2 existing bolts to mount & not in the exterior body. Soon to become a motorized flip-up (hidden) license plate holder.


For some reason, TGO is screwing up, despite me COPYING the URL...It say 'Page Not Found'... :dunno:

TGO...Welcome to the useless as hell site, called TGO....It totally keeps ****ING UP the URL and adding **** to the URL that I didn't enter! 30 edits later & NO CHANGE!!!!!!!!


https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/fabr...nse-plate.html

dirtywhiteZ28

License plate. Yeah right. The truth be told is that it was the easyiest way to ensure that all vehicles had an equal chance of being radar reflective freindly back in the days when cop cars had to have a flat vertical surface, to reflect the old technoligy back to the gun, in a reliable and effective manner. Many manufacturers would provide the dealerships with plastic plate holders designed to mount onto the front of the vehicle and acheive this. Fast forward and now the law is a conveinient way to help identify law breakers from the front or rear, especially when the front of the vehicle is the only end visible,(e.i.)-gasoline theft caught on camera, parking at the front door of a retail store before robbing it, rear ending another vehicle and taking off. Ahhh and the coup de grah a beautiful picture of your happy mug with identifiying plate as you pass the unmanned radar photo rig parked on the side of the freeway clocking you at 93MPH by laser, not someone you may have lent your car too.

Larry Dunlap

My son recently got a fixit ticket for no front plate, although he had it on the dash. I hated to do it but we had to drill two holes on the nice flat surface of the virgin front bumper cover and put one on

yevgenievich

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wouldn't it be better to make a bracket that would extend from below the bumper instead of drilling holes?

Kevin84Z28

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Velcro...?