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Manitoba licence plate: Standard

Issued today 1997 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, 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, Standard (1997 to today), sample SMF 615
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example SMF 615 (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
1997 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #003C71 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
PERIOD AND SCENE ARE PRIMARY; THE SERIAL ARRANGEMENT IS NOT. Do not let the strong period grade launder the weak format grade, they are separate claims about the same series and the file keeps them separate on purpose. THE 2012 REFRESH IS A BASE CHANGE, NOT A SERIES BOUNDARY. Secondary sources place a redesign at 2012 (reported as introducing bilingual elements) with the SAME three-letter/three-numeral arrangement either side of it.

Legal basis and sources

  1. first issue June 1997, the Aug 1997-July 1998 rollout window, the trees/water/wheat imagery, the reflectorized coating, the two-plate return https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=22982&posted=1997-06-13
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Manitoba
  3. s. 60(1): the design, colour and material are the registrar's https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/d104.php

Before and after

Manitoba (Canada) license plate, Standard 1983 (1983 to 1998) It replaced Standard 1983 1983 to 1998

This plate in your app

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