In Texas you have a plate on your car both front and back. It stays on there for the life of the car if you wish, although you do get offered a new one every five years if yours is beat up.

The yearly fee you pay to register your car is a sticker that is mounted in the lower right hand side of the windshield. You scrape the old one off and stick the new one on from the inside.

Sticker theft was rampant in Texas until they went to this.