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Ontario licence plate: Historic

Issued today 2007 to today. Historic plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO); plates and permits issued through ServiceOntario. One of 12 Ontario license plates.

Ontario (Canada) license plate, Historic (2007 to today), sample 9H5282
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Format, years and the law

Format
9H9999, for example 9H5282 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
2007 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #003C71 Background #FFFFFF
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE ELIGIBILITY TEST IS STATUTORY AND THE FORMAT IS NOT, the split this whole file is built around, in one series. HTA s. 7(1.1) states the 30-year rule in terms; nothing in the Act or the regulation says a historic plate reads 1H2345, and 2007 is the article's unfootnoted date.
How numbers are issued
1H0001 upward per the article's issuance record
Who can have one
HTA s. 7(1.1), verbatim: "'historic vehicle' means a motor vehicle that, (a) is at least 30 years old, and (b) is substantially unchanged or unmodified from the original manufacturer's product." Reg. 628 s. 1(1) carries its own definition "despite the definition in subsection 7 (1.1) of the Act" for registration purposes.

Legal basis and sources

  1. HTA s. 7(1.1): the 30-year, substantially-unmodified statutory definition https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h08
  2. Reg. 628 s. 1(1) 'historic vehicle', which overrides the Act's definition for registration purposes https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/900628
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ontario

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-on-historic-2007. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Ontario's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-on \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-on-historic-2007")'
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