Québec licence plate: Passenger 2009

Retired 2009 to 2022. Standard plates for car, van, and motorhome, issued by Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ). One of 16 Québec license plates.

Québec (Canada) license plate, Passenger 2009 (2009 to 2022), sample J44 CVF

Format, years and the law

Format
L99 LLL, for example J44 CVF (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
2009 to 2022. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and motorhome.
Colours
Characters #003DA5 Background #FFFFFF
Size
30 × 15 cm (300 × 150 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THIRTEEN YEARS AND THE BULK OF THE QUÉBEC FLEET.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Quebec
  2. Règlement arts. 102, 110, 113, 114, 124, 139, 159, the reserved class prefixes F, L, R, A, C, V and X, which independently explain the excluded first letters above https://www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fr/document/rc/C-24.2,%20r.%2029

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-qc-passenger-2009. 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-passenger-2009")'