LOL :p

I was fined a 76.86 ticket here.... ONLY because it wasn't displayed AT ALL. It now rests in the front windshield.

 

I just moved to Texas and refuse to put mine on, haven't gotten pulled over yet. Maybe a 100 dollar ticket will change my mind.

 

Luckily, we don't have that stupid front license plate law here in Pennsylvania. We do, however, have window tint laws that make it pretty much illegal to tint cars (SUVs, vans, and trucks are OK though). Cars can't be darker than 70%. Also our alcohol sales laws are pretty strict, no beer in convenience stores or grocery stores in this state. It doesn't seem to have reduced alcohol problems here.

 

I hope we never have to do the front plate thing. I hate front plates on cars but if you have to have them, then I guess your SOL

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plate
In the United States, 20 states do not require an official front license plate, these states being Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia and the territories Guam and Puerto Rico. In Nevada, front plates are optional if the vehicle was not designed for a front plate and the manufacturer did not provide an add-on bracket or other means of displaying the front plate.[5] In Canada, 9 of the 13 provinces and territories do not require an official front plate, including the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Québec, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.

The first time I was pulled over was for no front plate by the CHP. In my VW bug that was a recovered stolen car, it had been partially stripped and put back together with any VW bug parts I could find. The Chippie checked every damn stamping for serial numbers and gave me a very disrespectful experience. The plate was on the back seat, the front bumper had not yet been replaced.

I signed this long ago - http://www.petitiononline.com/caplate/petition.html
It's got 29,578 signatures. Didn't do much good.

One school of thought is that reflective front plates give radar/laser using cops a good surface to zero in on. FWIW.

 

Sorry about that - I'm the enabler cause I sold you the filler plate. Honestly - I have never been caught by not running a front plate.

 

I've been pulled over with the filler in, and the cops never say anything about it. I did look it up, and it is a law in Wisconsin that if you were issued front and rear plates that you display both of them. The maximum fine is $200

Link to statute Section 345.15

 

Sorry to hear about the $120 ticket. That sucks man!

Here in Windsor, Ontario we can get away with running without a front plate about 95% of the time. But that's because of our proximity to Detroit, MI. Michigan doesn't use front plates. So the Windsor cops tend to ignore the fact that some cars don't have front plates.

The problem comes as you drive further into Ontario. No front plate stands out like a sore thumb. So I just keep my front plate on. Besides, I'd be constantly worried about my Dale Jr edition #8 filler plate being stolen off my car.

 

I dont know what *** is code for but i can tell you this, that cop was just being an ***. Thats a ridiculous amount.

Ewww, if it came down to this, i would just rather have the front plates on, this looks hideous.

 

I agree. If it came to that, you may as well just put the front plate on properly.

*** is supposed to be the word "***". Some sites sensor that word. So people substitute the number 5 for the letter "s".