British Columbia licence plate: Parks 2017
Retired 2017 to 2025. Specialty plates for car, van, and truck, issued by Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), as delegate of the Province under the Motor Vehicle Act. One of 13 British Columbia license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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RK999L, for exampleRK534X(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2017 to 2025. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, and truck.
- Colours
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Characters
#12326EBackground#FFFFFF - About this plate
- START IS PRIMARY AND TO THE DAY. Province of British Columbia news release 2017ENV0020-000696 (19 March 2017), verbatim: "The three licence plate designs - a Kermode bear found only in British Columbia, the snow-capped Purcell Mountains, and a stunning view from Porteau Cove overlooking Howe Sound - were unveiled by Environment Minister Mary Polak and Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Todd Stone on Jan. 18, 2017, in Vancouver" and "became available for purchase at Autoplan broker offices on Jan. 29, 2017". Unveiling and FIRST ISSUE are eight days apart and this file records the issue date, not the unveiling.
Legal basis and sources
- unveiled 18 Jan 2017, on sale 29 Jan 2017, the three designs, the ICBC partnership https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017ENV0020-000696
- the RS/RK/RM 'Current pattern' column https://partners.icbc.com/assets/5GMseymkqs8E4Otb8osoGQ/bulletin-33-new-licence-plate-configurations.pdf
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is ca-bc-parks-2017. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of British Columbia's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-bc \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-bc-parks-2017")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-parks-2017.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-parks-2017/template.svg
