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Brazil license plate: PNU official

Retired 1990 to 2020. Government 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.

Brazil license plate, PNU official (1990 to 2020), sample GOV-1234
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-9999, for example GOV-1234 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Same letters, different messenger: on the white official plate the tarjeta strip did the decoding, BRASIL for a federal vehicle, the state's name for state fleets, state initials plus municipality for town halls.

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

Years issued
1990 to 2020. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #1C1C1C Background #F6F6F6
Size
400 × 130 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Government fleets under the PNU: a WHITE plate with black characters, visually the same colour pair as a private plate but on white rather than grey, distinguished in the field by the tarjeta, which read BRASIL for federal vehicles, the state's name for state vehicles, and UF + municipality for municipal ones. CTB art. 116 separately allows police and public-security vehicles in reserved service to wear ordinary private plates, which is why an official-looking Brazilian vehicle may lawfully carry a grey plate.

Legal basis and sources

  1. art. 1 § 1 (official plates excepted from the ordinary tarjeta), art. 1 § 2 I-III (BRASIL / state name / UF + municipality), Anexo 5.1 row 'Oficial' (white ground, black characters) https://web.archive.org/web/20140815083608/http://www.denatran.gov.br/download/Consolidadas/cons231.pdf
  2. Res. 45/98 art. 1 § 1-§ 2: the identical rule a decade earlier https://www.gov.br/transportes/pt-br/assuntos/transito/conteudo-contran/resolucoes/resolucao045_98.zip

This plate in your app

The series id is br-pnu-official-1990. 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-pnu-official-1990")'
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