Northwest Territories licence plate: Dealer

Issued today Documented since 2013. Dealer plates for car, van, and truck, 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, Dealer (documented since 2013), sample D41145

Format, years and the law

Format
D99999, for example D41145 (9 any digit)

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
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, and truck.
Colours
Characters #0033A0 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
Act s. 41: where the Registrar issues a dealer a certificate of registration that does NOT describe a vehicle, the Registrar issues "one licence plate of the class for dealers", a plate with no vehicle behind it. reg. 13(2) then confines its use: no person shall operate a vehicle displaying a dealer inventory vehicle plate "except for promotional activities or for the purpose of testing the motor vehicle for suitability for (a) lease; (b) sale; or (c) exchange."

Legal basis and sources

  1. reg. 8(2)(e), reg. 13(1)-(2) https://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/en/files/legislation/motor-vehicles/motor-vehicles.r12.pdf
  2. Act s. 41 https://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/en/files/legislation/motor-vehicles/motor-vehicles.a.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-nt-dealer. 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-dealer")'