| (a) Digital license plate designs.
(1) A digital license plate provider is prohibited
from designing or creating specialty license plates under Transportation
Code Chapter 504, unless the provider has a contract with the department
under Transportation Code, §504.851.
(2) A digital license plate provider must enter into
a licensing agreement, with standard language as approved by the department,
for the display of any third party's intellectual property on a digital
license plate.
(b) Digital license plate displays.
(1) Electronic information to be displayed on a digital
license plate, including the content and design of both required and
optional digital license plate information, must be approved by the
department. A digital license plate may not be personalized or customized
in any region of interest, including the legend area, except as provided
by the department under this chapter.
(2) Optional digital license plate information when
in park. When the vehicle is in park, optional digital license plate
information may include any of the following optional digital license
plate information as approved by the department and the digital license
plate owner:
(A) an emergency alert or other public safety alert
issued by a governmental entity, including an alert authorized under
Subchapter L, M, or P of Government Code Chapter 411;
(B) vehicle manufacturer safety recall notices;
(C) advertising; or
(D) a parking permit pursuant to an agreement between
a digital license plate provider and the entity that issues the parking
permit.
(3) When the vehicle is in park, required digital license
plate information may be reduced in size but must be in a field no
smaller than 4.5 inches by 2.5 inches in the upper right-hand corner.
The alphanumeric characters and any symbols in the reduced field must
be black. The background in the reduced field must be white. There
must be two adjoining borders outlining the field. The inside border
must be black and the outside border must be white.
(4) If more than one category of optional digital information
in subsection (b)(2) of this subsection could be displayed at one
time, the department may determine the order of display on the digital
license plate.
(5) A digital license plate may be authorized for electronic
toll collection with approval from, and agreement between, a digital
license plate provider and the appropriate toll entity.
(c) Registration Expiration Notification.
(1) Digital license plate providers must display the
word "EXPIRED" as approved by the department on a digital license
plate if registration has expired.
(2) If a digital license plate is displaying a registration
expiration notification, the registration notification and optional
digital license plate information may not encroach upon the primary
or secondary regions of interest.
(3) Unless otherwise prescribed by this chapter, the
digital license plate provider must not remove an expired registration
notification until after the department confirms registration is current.
(d) Owner authorizations.
(1) The digital license plate provider may not display
optional digital license plate information on a digital license plate
unless the digital license plate owner authorizes the display.
(2) The digital license plate provider may not disclose
GPS data to any person unless the digital license plate owner authorizes
its disclosure or the disclosure of the GPS data is required or permitted
under other law.
(3) The digital license plate provider must disclose
to potential and current digital license plate owners how GPS data
authorized for disclosure by the owner or by law will be used and
to whom it will be disclosed.
(4) The digital license plate provider may not require
the owner to authorize the display or disclosure under paragraphs
(1) or (2) of this subsection as a condition of purchase or lease
of a digital license plate.
(5) The digital license plate provider must immediately
discontinue the display of optional digital license plate information
if the digital license plate owner requests for the display of the
optional digital license plate information to be discontinued.
(6) The digital license plate provider must provide
a single mechanism (or method or means) by which the digital license
plate owner may opt in or opt out of the display of optional digital
license plate information.
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