I suspect you're screwed. Save your money, pay your fine, move on. It's the owner's responsibility to properly display license plates, and if you can't because you don't have them both, it's up to the owner to go to the appropriate authority and fix it. This assumes that you mean that it's registered in your home state, and your home state requires two plates. If it was legally registered in a another state that doesn't have two, but an over-zealous cop wrote you up for it anyway, that should be a slam dunk: what you were doing wasn't against the law.
In most states, the only way to obtain a legal license plates for your vehicle is through the department of motor vehicles. However, if your searching for novelty license plates as a collectors item, look no further than the websites Larry's License Plates and Plates USA.
Yes, Texas is one of the 31 states that requires vehicles to have a front and rear license plate. Despite the fact that every state bordering Texas requires only one plate, Section 504.943 of the Transportation Code requires that a vehicle display two plates. Do classic cars need front license plates in Texas?
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The State of Connecticut requires cars registered there display two license plates, one on the front and one on the rear of the vehicle.(See Related Link, below, for more information.)
NC requires a notarized title, a NC driver's license, and a passed NC inspection before the vehicle can be registered.
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Yes. You can be the registered owner of a vehicle and apply for license plates even without having a drivers permit.
The State of Maryland requires two license plates on all registered vehicles, one attached to the front of the car and one to the back The fine for not having the required number of plates is $55 (as of 2007)
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The state of Texas requires that you have 2 plates. One in front and one in the rear.
The color of the license plate sticker depends on the state in which you obtained the vehicle license.