Québec licence plate: Personalized
Issued today 2018 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, motorcycle, moped, atv, snowmobile, and motorhome, issued by Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ). One of 16 Québec license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLLLLLL, for exampleNSMZHMG(L is any letter)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 2018 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, motorcycle, moped, atv, snowmobile, and motorhome.
- Colours
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Characters
#003DA5Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 30 × 15 cm (300 × 150 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- 18, a. 35 inserted arts. 7.2 to 7.7 and is the enacting instrument for the regime AS IT NOW STANDS.
- Who can have one
- text: Règlement art. 7.2, verbatim: « Seules les personnes qui ne sont pas des personnes morales peuvent obtenir une plaque d'immatriculation personnalisée. Une telle plaque ne peut être associée qu'aux véhicules routiers suivants, sauf s'ils sont mis au rancart: 1° les véhicules de promenade, pour lesquels le présent règlement ne prévoit pas que la plaque d'immatriculation porte un préfixe; 2° les motocyclettes, les cyclomoteurs et les habitations motorisées d'une masse nette de 3 000 kg ou moins; 3° les véhicules tout-terrain et les motoneiges d'une masse nette de 450 kg ou moins. ». translation note: OUR TRANSLATION: only persons who are NOT legal persons (i.e. not corporations) may obtain a personalized plate, and it may only be associated with: passenger vehicles for which this regulation prescribes no prefix; motorcycles, mopeds and motorized homes of 3 000 kg or less; and all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles of 450 kg or less.. note: No corporate vanity plates in Québec, a hard eligibility rule stated in the instrument, and one that distinguishes Québec from Ontario, where a business may hold one.
Legal basis and sources
- Règlement arts. 7.2-7.7 (inserted by L.Q. 2018, c. 18, a. 35, with art. 7.7 amended by D. 997-2022, a. 10) and arts. 139 al. 2, 141 al. 2 (the V-hyphen off-road form) https://www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fr/document/rc/C-24.2,%20r.%2029
- CSR art. 10.4 (the power to issue a personalized plate), art. 32.1 (the alphabet and the prohibited-message rule, verbatim above), arts. 32.2-32.4 (activation, management fees, replacement on invalidation), arts.... https://www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fr/document/lc/C-24.2
This plate in your app
The series id is ca-qc-personalized-2018. 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-personalized-2018")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-qc/ca-qc-personalized-2018.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-qc/ca-qc-personalized-2018/template.svg
