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Ontario licence plate: Standard 1986

Retired 1986 to 1997. Standard plates for car, van, and bus, issued by Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO); plates and permits issued through ServiceOntario. One of 12 Ontario license plates.

Ontario (Canada) license plate, Standard 1986 (1986 to 1997), sample 532 RJK
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Format, years and the law

Format
999 LLL, for example 532 RJK (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
1986 to 1997. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and bus.
Colours
Characters #003C71 Background #FFFFFF
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
Separators
crown graphic in the gap, as on the current series

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ontario
  2. HTA s. 11(3): plates of this vintage remain lawfully transferable between the holder's vehicles of a similar class, which is why the series has no hard end for DISPLAY purposes https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h08

Before and after

Ontario (Canada) license plate, Standard 1997 (1997 to today) Replaced by Standard 1997 1997 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-on-standard-1986. 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-standard-1986")'
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