Northwest Territories licence plate: Amateur radio

Issued today Documented since 2013. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Government of the Northwest Territories (Department of Infrastructure, Driver and Vehicle Services). One of 14 Northwest Territories license plates.

Northwest Territories (Canada) license plate, Amateur radio (documented since 2013), sample VE8RLB

Format, years and the law

Format
VE8LLL, for example VE8RLB (L is any letter)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented since 2013; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #0033A0 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE SERIAL IS A FEDERAL CALL SIGN AND THE TERRITORY SAYS SO IN TERMS: "allocated to the registrant by the Government of Canada".

Legal basis and sources

  1. reg. 8(2)(a), reg. 8(3) https://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/en/files/legislation/motor-vehicles/motor-vehicles.r12.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-nt-amateur-radio. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Northwest Territories's series:

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