Québec licence plate: Off-road V

Issued today 1991 to today. Standard plates for atv, snowmobile, and machine, issued by Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ). One of 16 Québec license plates.

Québec (Canada) license plate, Off-road V (1991 to today), sample V14442U

Format, years and the law

Format
V99999L, for example V14442U (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
1991 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for atv, snowmobile, and machine.
Colours
Characters #003DA5 Background #FFFFFF
Size
20 × 10 cm (200 × 100 mm) · every country's size

Legal basis and sources

  1. Règlement art. 139 (private-land and metal-tracked vehicles), art. 140 (stations, ports and airports), art. 141 (snowmobiles of 450 kg or less), art. 9 (snowmobile plate position) https://www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fr/document/rc/C-24.2,%20r.%2029
  2. CSR art. 421.1: driving a V-plated vehicle on a public road is an offence, verbatim above https://www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fr/document/lc/C-24.2
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Quebec

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-qc-offroad-v. 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-offroad-v")'