(a) State-owned vehicles used for the following purposes are not required to bear the inscription required by Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 721:
  (1) vehicles primarily used to transport youth;
  (2) vehicles used by staff who are on 24-hour emergency call;
  (3) vehicles used for regular travel away from staff members’ home base; or
  (4) vehicles primarily used as part of the agency’s vehicle pool that are available for use by various personnel in support of agency operations.
(b) The purposes to be served by not printing the inscription on these vehicles are to avoid public identification of youth as wards of the state, to facilitate the apprehension of runaways, and to minimize the possibility of personal injury and vandalism of state property.

Source Note: The provisions of this §385.9975 adopted to be effective December 31, 1996, 21 TexReg 12194; transferred effective June 4, 2012, as published in the Texas Register June 22, 2012, 37 TexReg 4639; amended to be effective December 1, 2016, 41 TexReg 8632