Manitoba licence plate: Personalized

Issued today 1997 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, 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, Personalized (1997 to today), sample MNJASU

Format, years and the law

Format
LLLLLL, for example MNJASU (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
1997 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #003C71 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE STATUTORY HOOK IS s. Personalized plate holders who did not receive a renewal notice may contact the Division of Driver and Vehicle Licensing Personalized Licence Plate Section." The release also records the 1997-98 recycling of lapsed slogans: "Slogans not renewed by Aug. 1, 1998, will be made available to the general public for a fee of $100." Manitoba's own word for a personalized combination is a SLOGAN, which is a nice tell that s. 60(1)'s "words" branch is the one being exercised.

Legal basis and sources

  1. the programme in existence in 1997, the $50 renewal, the $100 release of lapsed slogans, the 'slogan' terminology https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=22982&posted=1997-06-13
  2. s. 60(1) 'numbers, letters or words' https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/d104.php

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-mb-personalized. 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-personalized")'