Tex. Transp. Code § 504.511 · Subchapter F. SPECIALTY LICENSE PLATES WITH RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION AND REGULAR LICENSE PLATE FEES
PEACE OFFICERS WOUNDED OR KILLED IN LINE OF DUTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall issue specialty license plates for:
(1) a person wounded in the line of duty as a peace officer; or
(2) a surviving spouse, parent, brother, sister, or adult child, including an adopted child or stepchild, of a person killed in the line of duty as a peace officer.
(b) License plates issued under this section must include the words "To Protect and Serve" above an insignia depicting a yellow rose superimposed over the outline of a badge.
(c) The fee for issuance of the license plates is $20.
(d) In this section, "peace officer" has the meaning assigned by Section 1.07, Penal Code.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Transferred and redesignated from Transportation Code, Section 504.407 by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1296 (H.B. 2357), Sec. 199, eff. January 1, 2012.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.504.htm
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