Prince Edward Island licence plate: Dealer

Issued today 1988 to today. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, and trailer, issued by Highway Safety Division, Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (Prince Edward Island); registration transacted through Access PEI. One of 8 Prince Edward Island license plates.

Prince Edward Island (Canada) license plate, Dealer (1988 to today), sample DLR3942

Format, years and the law

Format
DLR9999, for example DLR3942 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
1988 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #C8102E Background #FFD100
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE ONLY PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND NON-PASSENGER CLASS THE ACT ITSELF DESCRIBES, and the description is a good one: s. H-5, itself carrying "R.S.P.E.I. 1974, Cap. The DLR arrangement and the colours are the article's.

Legal basis and sources

  1. HTA ss. 41-42: the distinguishing-marker requirement, the transferability rule, the permitted-use list and the operating prohibition, quoted above; s. 35 (dealer's trade licence and number plate); s. 51 (regulations... https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/sites/default/files/legislation/h-05-highway_traffic_act.pdf
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Prince_Edward_Island

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-pe-dealer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Prince Edward Island's series:

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