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Alberta licence plate: Specialty index

Issued today 2014 to today. Specialty plates for car, van, and truck, 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, Specialty index (2014 to today), sample GBT-229
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example GBT-229 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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
2014 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, and truck.
Colours
Characters #1B3F8B Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
63.1 was ADDED to AR 320/2002 by AR 160/2014 s. 2 and amended by AR 77/2022. s. 63.1(3): the Registrar, "on the application of, and having entered into a written agreement with, an organization, may create a special type of licence plate with respect to that organization". s. 63.1(5): "Specialty licence plates must be in the form and design approved by the Registrar." s. 63.1(6) lets the Registrar restrict a specialty plate to named vehicle classes in writing.

Legal basis and sources

  1. s. 63.1(1)-(6), enactment AR 160/2014 s2, amendment 77/2022 https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf
  2. the three named programs https://www.alberta.ca/licence-plates

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-ab-specialty-index. 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-specialty-index")'
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