Tex. Transportation Code § 504.512

This is the official text of Tex. Transportation Code § 504.512, part of Texas’s Transportation Code — governs vehicles, drivers, and roadways.

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§ 504.512. GOLD STAR MOTHER, FATHER, SPOUSE, OR FAMILY MEMBER.

Official statutory text

(a) The department shall issue a specialty license plate for the mother, father, or surviving spouse or an immediate family member of a person who died while serving in the United States armed forces. License plates issued under this section must include the words "Gold Star Mother," "Gold Star Father," "Gold Star Spouse," or "Gold Star Family" and a gold star. A person may not be issued more than one set of the license plates at a time.

(a-1) In this section "immediate family member" means the parent, child, sibling, adoptive parent, adoptive child, foster parent, foster child, stepparent, or stepchild of a person who died while serving in the United States armed forces.

(b) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 741 , Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2016.

Status: repealed · Read it on the official government site

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