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Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, 576 U.S. 200 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that license plates are government speech and are consequently more easily regulated/subjected to content restrictions than private speech under the First Amendment.
In 1956, the United States, Canada, and Mexico came to an agreement with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, the Automobile Manufacturers Association and the National Safety Council that standardized the size for license plates for vehicles (except those for motorcycles) at 6 inches (15 cm) in height by 12 inches (30 cm) in width, with standardized mounting holes. [4]
2023 California temporary license plate for a Mercedes-Benz GLB-250. Steve Jobs' car, parked at Apple Infinite Loop campus in 2010. Prior to 2019, California was the last U.S. state to not require the display of any form of temporary license plate on new vehicles.
The police department in Oakley, a city about 40 miles south of Sacramento, which The N&O found was sharing license plate data with at least seven out-of-state agencies — including in Texas and ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Texas' refusal to issue a license plate bearing the Confederate battle flag, rejecting a free-speech challenge. The court said in a 5-4 ...
The "Texas, Our Texas" license plates issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles will include the song's namesake as well as honor the 100th birthday of the tune with the dates 1924-2024.
In January 2012, the Texas legislature inadvertently removed the penalty for driving without a front license plate. As a result, the law required front and rear license plates on passenger vehicles, but stated no penalty for non compliance. Realizing the mistake, the legislature eventually reinstated the $200 fine in September 2013. [42]
Formats for license plate numbers are consistent within the state. For example, Delaware is able to use six-digit all-numeric serials because of its low population. Several states, particularly those with higher populations, use seven-character formats of three letters and four digits, including 1ABC234 in California, 1234ABC in Kansas and ABC-1234 (with or without a space or dash) in Georgia ...