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Brazil license plate: Mercosur state arms

Retired 2018 to 2018. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by SENATRAN (Secretaria Nacional de Trânsito), órgão máximo executivo de trânsito da União, Ministério dos Transportes; normative authority CONTRAN (Conselho Nacional de Trânsito). One of 11 Brazil license plates.

Issued only between March and November 2018, mostly in Rio de Janeiro, the only Brazilian plate since 1990 to show geography again: a state flag, a coat of arms, and the municipality's name at the right edge.

Brazil license plate, Mercosur state arms (2018 to 2018), sample RIO3B77
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL9L99, for example RIO3B77 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The letters were already meaningless, the geography moved into print: state flag, coat of arms and the municipality's name at the plate's edge, for just nine months of 2018. It is the last Brazilian plate that says where it is from.

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2018 to 2018. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
400 × 130 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE NINE-MONTH PLATE. Between Res. CONTRAN 729/2018 (6 March 2018) and Res. CONTRAN 748/2018 (30 November 2018) the Brazilian Mercosul plate carried, at its right edge below the blue band, the flag of the state of registration, a coat of arms, and beneath the arms the NAME OF THE MUNICIPALITY of registration. Rio de Janeiro, the first state to issue, from September 2018, issued these, and so did the states that started before the 748/2018 timetable ran out. Res. 748/2018 art. 4 revoked all four Anexo I items in a single line and Brazilian plates have shown no geography at all since.
Region code notes
THE ONLY BRAZILIAN PLATE SINCE 2018 THAT DECODES GEOGRAPHICALLY, and it does so by printing the answer rather than by encoding it: the state flag identified the Unidade da Federação and the legend under the arms named the municipality of registration in words. There is no code table to ship.

Legal basis and sources

  1. gov.br https://www.gov.br/transportes/pt-br/assuntos/transito/conteudo-contran/resolucoes/resolucao7292018_nova.pdf
  2. Res. CONTRAN 748/2018 of 30-11-2018 art. 4, verbatim: 'Revogar os itens 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.8 e 1.8.1 do Anexo I da Resolução CONTRAN nº 729, de 6 de março de 2018.', the instrument that closes this series' period https://www.gov.br/transportes/pt-br/assuntos/transito/conteudo-contran/resolucoes/resolucao7482018.pdf
  3. art. 2, the per-state December 2018 cronograma these plates were issued across, Rio de Janeiro first https://www.gov.br/transportes/pt-br/assuntos/transito/conteudo-contran/resolucoes/resolucao7482018.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is br-mercosul-uf-brasao-2018. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Brazil's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/br \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "br-mercosul-uf-brasao-2018")'
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