British Columbia licence plate: Personalized
Issued today 1979 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, 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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LLLLLL, for exampleCDNDRD(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
- 1979 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#12326EBackground#FFFFFF - About this plate
- Division 34 of B.C. Reg. 26/58 is the personalised-plate regime and it was ADDED BY B.C. Reg. 295/79, every operative section of Division 34 carries the enactment note "[en. B.C. Reg. Reg. 34.04 states the refusal grounds verbatim: a combination "identical to one already in use", "identical to a number plate in an existing or projected series of number plates to be issued", one that "could create identification problems", one that "is unseemly, vulgar, indecent or may offend any person", or one that "might distract the drivers of other vehicles so as to reduce the level of their driving care or attention". Reg. 34.05(1) bars personalised plates on farm vehicles, 'vintage'-plated antique cars, collector-plated vehicles, trailers, Commercial Transport Act vehicles over 5 500 kg, and Division 24 vehicles other than neighbourhood zero-emission vehicles. Reg. 34.10(1)(c) dates the fee regime to plates "issued on or after January 1, 1984". No character-count rule is stated in the regulation; the six-character bound comes from bulletin 33.
Legal basis and sources
- Division 34 ss. 34.01-34.08, enactment note B.C. Reg. 295/79 https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/26_58_10
- six-character bound https://partners.icbc.com/assets/5GMseymkqs8E4Otb8osoGQ/bulletin-33-new-licence-plate-configurations.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is ca-bc-personalized. 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-personalized")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-personalized.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-personalized/template.svg
