A hold is caused by the city or county reporting your traffic ticket as being past due. The only way to safely remove the hold without causing damage to your driving record is to first have a lawyer post an appearance bond with the court where the citation is located. Second, an OMNI fee must be paid to the court to remove the hold. Once these two steps are taken, you can successfully renew your driving privileges in Texas.
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This is a helpful breakdown — a lot of drivers don’t realize the hold won’t lift until both the appearance bond and the OMNI fee are handled. One thing worth adding for the future: once the hold is cleared, eligible Texas drivers can often keep a new ticket off their record entirely with a state-approved defensive driving course, which helps avoid the past-due spiral that causes these holds in the first place.