Ontario licence plate: Personalized
Issued today 1998 to today. Personalized 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLLLLLLL, for exampleGVPTSXGI(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
- 1998 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#003C71Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- The statute creates the class (s. 7(24)(o), s. HTA s. 7(24)(o) and s. 12(3)(a) both entered the Act by 1999, c. 12, Sched. R, in force 1 January 2001 per the e-Laws amendment table, and Ontario's requested-number programme demonstrably predates that consolidation.
- Transfer
- ServiceOntario, verbatim: "A personalized licence plate can be transferred only once to another person before it is attached to a vehicle. Once the plate is registered to a vehicle, it cannot be transferred again.", which sits on top of the ordinary Ontario owner-binding rule (HTA s. 11(3)).
Legal basis and sources
- ontario.ca https://www.ontario.ca/page/personalized-licence-plate
- HTA s. 7(24)(o): the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations 'prescribing the criteria for the issuance, retention and return of a number plate bearing a requested number', the statutory hook for the whole... https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h08
This plate in your app
The series id is ca-on-personalized. 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-personalized")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-on/ca-on-personalized.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-on/ca-on-personalized/template.svg
