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Application Form and Instructions
Texas
Reads License Plate Application [.pdf]
Application form provided by the Texas Department of Transportation
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Texas Reads License Plate Application online
Application form provided by the Texas Department of Transportation
You must print the application form for the Texas
Reads license plate, complete it, and submit the paper copy to
your local Tax Assessor-Collector. The application form is in
portable document format (PDF) and requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in for your browser. Instructions for completing
the application form are below.
Application Instructions
The Texas Department of Transportation may issue specially-designed
Texas Reads license plates to passenger cars and light commercial
vehicles having a manufacturer's-rated carrying capacity of one
ton or less.
Personalized License Plate Selection Instructions
Your selection may consist of:
- No more than five characters, symbols, or spaces, OR three
characters, symbols, or spaces and one silhouette of Texas
- Limit of two spaces for punctuation symbols OR one silhouette
of Texas.
Each square of the selection block may be used to represent one
alpha or numeric character, punctuation symbol, or space. The
silhouette of Texas requires two selection blocks. Use an asterisk
(*) to indicate the Texas silhouette.
- Punctuation symbols which may be used are periods, dashes, or
blank spaces.
- Selections must be shown exactly as you wish them to appear
on the license plate.
- If approved, the personalized license plates will be manufactured
and mailed to your County Tax Assessor-Collector, and you will
be notified accordingly.
To obtain the special license plates, you are to surrender
your current windshield validation sticker to the County Tax
Assessor-Collector. The regular registration fee must be paid
to the County Tax Assessor-Collector for the period for which
the special license plates are valid. If your vehicle is currently
registered when the special license plates are issued, the vehicle
registration expiration date may need to be adjusted to correspond
with the expiration of the special license plates. If necessary,
additional fees will be collected, or credit will be issued, to
make this adjustment.
The Texas Reads license plates may be transferred
to another vehicle registered in the applicant's name. To transfer
the plates to another vehicle, a corrected vehicle registration
receipt must be obtained through the county tax office. The
special license plates may not be transferred to another owner.
Please allow two weeks for notification of approval.
More information available from the Texas Department of Transportation website
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