DALLAS - Car dealers who use license plate frames to advertise are among those worried about a new state law that may render some of the frames illegal.

The law, which went into effect Sept. 1, makes it illegal to attach illuminated devices to a license plate, add emblems to it or obscure the name of the state on the plate -- which a frame can do.

At John Eagle's dealership in Dallas, about $10,000 worth of brass and chrome license-plate frames will stay in a box and off the backsides of Aston Martins.

"I'm sending them back," Sonny Morgan, managing partner of the dealership, told The Dallas Morning News.

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