SOT.....Texas New License Plate Law

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Yes but a front plate violation in Califonia is only like $10 since it 
is a fix it ticket.

-Raffi

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:03PM -0800, Dan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:45:14PM -0600, Martin Rodriguez- CJS/ELP 
> wrote:
>>  MessageHi All
>>  this was forwarded to me this morning... as you all know i drive my 
>> rocco on
>>  the both sides of the Rio Grande ...
>>
>>  A new law was passed on September 1st that it is illegal to have a 
>> bracket
>>  around your license plate.
>>  Brackets such as; dealership, sports team, college alumni.  No 
>> brackets are
>>  allowed of any sort!
>>  If a police officer pulls you over for having a bracket around your 
>> license
>>  plate it is a $200 fine.  Yes $200...thanks for the notice!
>
> RTFA.  It says nothing of the sort.  You can have any license frame you
> want, be it a guido chain link license plate or a redneck rattlesnake
> frame with reclining nudes.  All the law says is that the frame may not
> block the registration numbers or stickers.  Only an inbred
> trailer-dwelling hillbilly would think it would be OK to obscure your
> plates with some oversized frame.  I'd call any fine levied on such an
> offence to be tax on stupidity...  much like people who complain about
> being fined for removing their front license plate.
>
> Dan
>
> --
> The hallucinations have cheered me up immensely.
>
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