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2011 Texas Legislature session accidentally removes penalty for not displaying license plates or registration stickers.
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/36/3656.asp
I didn't have time to wade through the attached bill to verify it, but looks like a legit article. Anyone want to test it out? ;)
Don't confuse the lack of a proscribed punishment with a change in probable cause law. I'd expect to be pulled over for a chat and request for consent to search every 2 or 3 miles.
If it's not required, how can it be used as probably cause?
Removing the penalty and removing the requirement are different. They can pull you over for a violation, even if they cannot actually punish you for that violation.
This article is wrong, they removed license plates from Section 502.473 and made it only about registration. 504.943 Is a new section that is 100% about license plates.
They just separated the 2 into different sections.
Did the penalty change?
I've owned one Miata or another for over 11 years and I've never run a front plate. Never got pulled over for it either.
Some wiseacre has decided that a minor omission in revised texas statutes means it's OK to run no plates since there's maybe possibly sorta no penalty. I say try it and find out. Just get video.Quote:
Originally Posted by cwisenheimer
I got one for it a few years ago. It was less than a week after I made a claim very similar to yours on this very board.Quote:
Originally Posted by cwisenheimer
My Miata has picked up several warnings and a ticket so I'm not saying shit. Karma is an evil mistress.Quote:
Originally Posted by Titus
As a matter of fact, I drove a turbo'd Sunburst with a roll bar and nice suspension (that is to say, not slow) for years and never got a single ticket. Perhaps Karma is a real sweetheart and it depends on how you treat her.
::StirTheP
j/k
FYI, I still get pulled over for putting the front plate on the driver's side of the car.
They know what you did last summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brg
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs45/i/20...HeyItsDave.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by tailchaser
Only been pulled over for it once, on the DNT. got ticketed, but it was dismissed when I showed up at the JP's office with the plate on. They didn't look hard, or they would've noticed it was attached with tape on the back. :)