Québec licence plate: Amateur radio

Issued today 1991 to today. Personalized plates for car and van, issued by Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ). One of 16 Québec license plates.

Québec (Canada) license plate, Amateur radio (1991 to today), sample VE2 IHP

Format, years and the law

Format
VE2 LLL, for example VE2 IHP (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
1991 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #003DA5 Background #FFFFFF
Size
30 × 15 cm (300 × 150 mm) · every country's size
Who can have one
text: Règlement art. 97 al. 2, verbatim: « Malgré le premier alinéa, une plaque portant le préfixe “VA2” ou “VE2” peut être délivrée au propriétaire d'un véhicule de promenade, titulaire d'une licence de radio-amateur. ». translation note: OUR TRANSLATION: despite the first paragraph, a plate bearing the prefix VA2 or VE2 may be issued to the owner of a passenger vehicle who holds an amateur-radio licence.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Règlement art. 97 al. 2, verbatim above https://www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fr/document/rc/C-24.2,%20r.%2029
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Quebec

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-qc-amateur-radio. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Québec's series:

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