You make a good post. The Honda frame you show.. is a dealer frame. Or at least branded Honda.. perhaps obtainable from a dealer, or auto parts store. Could get you looked at, as wider bottom could make you able to get that ticket. Maybe covering up stickers (if your state uses those) or other information like state name or slogan. It sounds silly, but this can be called an obstruction, as you say. Tickets have surely been issued for dealership plate frames. Has it happened to me? Perhaps once, maybe 16 years ago, so it is a thought whenever I see.. frames.
I would agree with you that the bottom one should be okay. The safest way, in my humble opinion, to not have to worry about someone's interpretation of the law is to not have a plate frame on at all.
Then we get into plastic plate coverings etc.. I feel a lot of people do not know what the law is on this, including that you can be stopped for no reason at all and that's fine in the law. No reason is needed. Everyone thinks there has to be one. This is incorrect. So why give them one more.. Does not usually happen, but don't be a meal ticket for things like license plate frames, something hanging from a rear view mirror (field.of vision ticke I see all sorts of plate coverings, including photo-shift angled lenses and tinted covers.
Houston Police Department
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You make a good post. The Honda frame you show.. is a dealer frame. Or at least branded Honda.. perhaps obtainable from a dealer, or auto parts store. Could get you looked at, as wider bottom could make you able to get that ticket. Maybe covering up stickers (if your state uses those) or other information like state name or slogan. It sounds silly, but this can be called an obstruction, as you say. Tickets have surely been issued for dealership plate frames. Has it happened to me? Perhaps once, maybe 16 years ago, so it is a thought whenever I see.. frames.
I would agree with you that the bottom one should be okay. The safest way, in my humble opinion, to not have to worry about someone's interpretation of the law is to not have a plate frame on at all.
Then we get into plastic plate coverings etc.. I feel a lot of people do not know what the law is on this, including that you can be stopped for no reason at all and that's fine in the law. No reason is needed. Everyone thinks there has to be one. This is incorrect. So why give them one more.. Does not usually happen, but don't be a meal ticket for things like license plate frames, something hanging from a rear view mirror (field.of vision ticket,) something decaled in the AS1 area of a windshield, all sorts of things in this category. All reasons. I see all sorts of plate coverings, including photo-shift angled lenses and tinted covers.
Houston Police Department
www.houstontx.gov
