WOW. This entire thread and no one has the law right. sorry for the attitude.
Put the plate in your front windshield. Do not have it so that it is in any way unreadable, i.e. do NOT wedge it too far down in the dash.
Do that and you ARE complying with the law. I get these tickets dismissed regularly.
If you think I'm drilling holes in my Challenger or Charger SRT8's, you're crazy.
The law says "in the front", not "bolted to the frontmost part of the car."
In fact, in Mata v. State, a cocaine case appealed from here in Bell County to the Texas Ct. Crim. Appeals, the conviction was thrown out, since the court found the statute to not require the plate to be bolted to the bumper. That case is the prevailing interpretation of the statute and the language is the same.
Put the plate in the windshield. If you get a ticket, tell the cop he's full of ****. take the ticket to the prosecutor and explain. If they give you ****, PM me. I have yet to run in to ANY SINGLE city prosecutor who did not immediately dismiss the ticket once I went in and talked to them. They then call the cop to explain the law, which they SHOULD already know.
