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Texas. I got a ticket for the offense "failure to display". I went to the court house to plead "no contest" and pay the fine. I asked the clerk if I could read the statute that applied to my ticket. What see showed me (502.002) only pertained to "driving an unregisted vehicle". I told her that didn't fit what the officer wrote and I didn't want that on my driving record. Even the officer admitted that my vehicle was registered. She argued and INSISTED that that was the statute, so I just left. A few days later I called on the phone and had the same argument. I returned in person and for the THIRD time was argued with and told that 502.002 IS THE STATUTE. So I had the clerk write that on the ticket and initial it and I got a hearing date. I tried to explain the confusion about the charge to the judge but he didn't care. So I plead not guilty and go to a pre-jury hearing next week. At the last hearing I overhead the clerks talking about how they now file the "failure to display" tickets under to correct statute. So I'm afraid that I will go to court and they will suddenly agree with me and charge me with proper statute. I feel since they insisted three times the statute was 502.002 they have no right to change it now that I've taken off work 3 times for this situation. BTW the "Judgement" for my previous hearing only lists "failure to display" as the charge. Any suggestions.