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Alberta licence plate: Personalized

Issued today Documented since 2002. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Registrar of Motor Vehicle Services, Government of Alberta (plates issued through registry agents). One of 8 Alberta license plates.

Alberta (Canada) license plate, Personalized (documented since 2002), sample NGMDEF
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLLLLL, for example NGMDEF (L is any letter)

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 2002; 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, truck, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #1B3F8B Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
AR 320/2002 s. Common substitutions include: Number 1 and the letter I; Number 1 and the letter L; Number 6 and the letter G; Number 5 and the letter S; Number 2 and the letter Z; Number 0 and the letter Q; Number 8 and the letter B; Number 3 and the letter E; Number 4 and the letter A." That is a publishable OCR-confusability table straight from a motor-vehicle authority. A personalized plate may not use "a configuration used by Motor Vehicles Services for regular series licence plates", and may not be registered on dealer plates, antiques, consular corps, disabled or specialty plates. No character COUNT is stated on the page.

Legal basis and sources

  1. the O rule, the substitution table, the ineligible classes, the no-regular-series rule https://www.alberta.ca/licence-plates
  2. s. 115 Personal licence plates (index entry) https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf

This plate in your app

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

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