Yukon licence plate: Snowmobile

Issued today Documented since 1978. Standard plates for snowmobile, issued by Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Government of Yukon. One of 19 Yukon license plates.

Yukon (Canada) license plate, Snowmobile (documented since 1978), sample S9141

Format, years and the law

Format
S9999, for example S9141 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
Documented since 1978; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for snowmobile.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
Paragraph 10(c) carries no amendment note and is therefore original to the 1978 order; 1978 is an upper bound on the grammar's start. s. 11(2)(b) leaves snowmobile plate placement "as authorized by the registrar", the one Yukon vehicle type with no legislated mounting position.

Legal basis and sources

  1. s. 10(c), s. 11(2)(b) https://laws.yukon.ca/cms/images/LEGISLATION/SUBORDINATE/1978/1978-0120/1978-0120.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-yt-snowmobile. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Yukon's series:

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