as long as you've made your vehicle legal in one of the 50 states, it's legal to drive it in any other state, right?
Even if it doesn't have a front license plate.
So, why do 30 of the 50 require them, and why do 20 states not give a damn?
After all, motorcycles do not have front plates, in ANY state, so, why must cars in 30 states have a front plate when a motorbike does not? And why are the most populous states requiring a front plate, while most of the least populated states do not?
Alabama Arizona Arkansas Delaware Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Michigan Mississippi New Mexico North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee West Virginia all do not give a damn about front plates.
Cops don't bother pulling anyone over and ticketing them for ignoring a front plate requirement, just like having lights that are required to work, but don't, like so many brake lights and tail lights... easy to see that a LOT of cars have lights that don't work. Cops ignore them UNLESS they feel like something else is going on, and then lights, seat belts, and front plate violations are great excuses for pulling over the suspected drunk, stoner, speeder, or whatever.
Cops lets this stuff slide so some other cops can bust you for something more egregious. Also, parking enforcement cops finally get something to do with front plate violators. You know a LOT of sports cars, and expensive cars simply don't have a place for a front plate. I bet cops like that.
At least in Europe it's mandatory to have them front and back. That vehicles can be easy identified, for sure it is handy for Speed Cameras that make a photo of you as driver and front of vehicle with license plate. What is interesting in Poland there are law about rear plate, but only a regulation about front one, so it don't need to be on bumper, it just need to be visible. But on expensive cars that don't have place on bumper for it... it's case of interpretation of police officer. You need to have a rear plate in very specific place in specific size, but in front, you just need to have it, somewhere.
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