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Manitoba licence plate: Dealer

Issued today Documented since 2018. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, and trailer, issued by Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Manitoba, with Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) as administrator under The Drivers and Vehicles Act. One of 9 Manitoba license plates.

Manitoba (Canada) license plate, Dealer (documented since 2018), sample YZ 3221
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 9999, for example YZ 3221 (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
Documented since 2018; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #003C71 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
s. 64 creates dealers' number plates; s. 35(2) is the operative deeming rule: "A registration card issued to a dealer in relation to dealers' number plates is deemed to have been issued for a vehicle when (a) the vehicle displays, in accordance with the regulations, the quantity and type of dealers' number plates that the regulations prescribe for use on vehicles of its registration class; and (b) the dealers' number plates on the vehicle display its registration card number and, in accordance with the regulations, stickers showing that the registration is valid." Note what is MISSING from (b) against the ordinary rule in s. 34(1)(a)(iii): no registration-CLASS sticker. 10, Sch. C, s. 15) and is an UPPER BOUND, Manitoba plainly issued dealer plates before 2018; that Act was a re-enactment.

Legal basis and sources

  1. ss. 35(2), 64; enactment note S.M. 2018, c. 10, Sch. C, s. 15 https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/d104.php

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-mb-dealer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Manitoba's series:

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