Andorra license plate: Personalized

Issued today Documented since 2014. Personalized plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Govern d'Andorra, Registre de Vehicles. One of 16 Andorra license plates.

Andorra license plate, Personalized (documented since 2014), sample CV309

Format, years and the law

Format
LL999, for example CV309 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The characters mean exactly what the buyer paid them to mean, within one statutory fence: no vanity plate may read MT, CD, CMD, A or CC followed by digits, nor the word PROVA, because those strings are the reserved voices of Andorra's official series.

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
Documented since 2014; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
340 × 120 mm · every country's size
About this plate
PLAQUES DE MATRÍCULA PERSONALITZADA, from 2014.
About its years
Llei 24/2014, del 30 d'octubre, BOPA núm. 67, any 2014, published 26 November 2014 (the sumari of BOPA núm. 67, any 26 is dated 26.11.2014; the draft's 25 November was the third instance of the same off-by-one and is corrected). Note that Andorra puts personalised plates in a LAW passed by the Consell General and sanctioned by both Co-Princes, where San Marino uses a decree, a markedly higher instrument for the same subject. COMMENCEMENT, which the draft did not state: disposició final segona, verbatim, "Aquesta Llei entra en vigor al cap d'un mes de ser publicada al Butlletí Oficial del Principat d'Andorra."
Format notes
A match is therefore a shape hit.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Llei 24/2014, del 30 d'octubre, arts. 2, 3.1-3.2, 4.1, 6.3, 7.1 lit. a-j, disposició final segona https://bopadocuments.blob.core.windows.net/bopa-documents/026067/html/lo26067002.html
  2. Decret 456/2022 art. 26, the reglament's own personalised-plate article, incl. 26.1 (eligible vehicles) and 26.5 (afectació a un altre vehicle) https://bopadocuments.blob.core.windows.net/bopa-documents/034135/html/GR20221110_09_12_43.html

This plate in your app

The series id is ad-personalized. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Andorra's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ad \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ad-personalized")'