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Alberta licence plate: Veterans

Issued today 2005 to today. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and moped, 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, Veterans (2005 to today), sample PHW-510
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example PHW-510 (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
2005 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and moped.
Colours
Characters #1B3F8B Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE DESIGN IS IN THE REGULATION EVEN THOUGH THE SERIAL IS NOT. AR 320/2002 s. 66.1(1), verbatim: "The Registrar may issue a veterans' licence plate that includes the word 'Veteran' and bears a depiction of the integrated maple leaf and poppy logo of the Royal Canadian Legion to an individual who meets the criteria set out in this section." s. 66.1(6) restricts it to passenger-class motor vehicles, Class 2 farm vehicles, motor cycles (not off-highway vehicles) and mopeds. s. 66.1(9)-(10) let the Registrar recall the plate when eligibility lapses, and alberta.ca adds that on the veteran's death the plate "may be retained only as a memento but can no longer be used on a vehicle".

Legal basis and sources

  1. s. 66.1(1), (4), (6), (9), (10) https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf
  2. 2005 introduction, 2012 motorcycle variant, memento rule https://www.alberta.ca/licence-plates

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-ab-veterans. 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-veterans")'
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