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Originally Posted by coldkilla
are you allowed to keep the plate in the front window if its visable?
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i've had my balls busted many times for this. i had been involved in an accident and it shattered the bracket in the front. i told the cop all of this, but he said i couldn't drive the car unless the license plate was attached to the bumper, at least 12" above the ground. i found a couple of sheet metal screws and screwed it to the bumper, but i was not a happy camper. he didn't write me a ticket, which was a saving grace, but he was going to impound the car if i didn't put the front plate on it.
so, no, the windshield is not the proper place for the plate. you can get a way with it for so long - but then you will run into the cop who will give you a hard time about it and might even write you a ticket for it.
there's regulations in the DMV book on registrations and stuff about the plate. years ago when people first started jacking their pickups up, they had to make a special bracket sometimes in order to get the plate mounted within the spec stated in the law about plates. higher than 12" from the ground and lower than 30" from the ground, i think is what it says. if you do a search on the DMV website i know you'll find the spec.