Czechia license plate: Dealer

Issued today Documented since 2001. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, trailer, and machine, issued by Ministerstvo dopravy. One of 14 Czechia license plates.

Czechia license plate, Dealer (documented since 2001), sample H21 414

Format, years and the law

Format
L99 999, for example H21 414 (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
Documented since 2001; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, trailer, and machine.
Colours
Characters #009933 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Czechia license plate, Dealer 280×200 mm (documented since 2001)

    Dealer 280×200 mm

    dealer · 280 × 200 mm

  • Czechia license plate, Dealer 200×160 mm (documented since 2001)

    Dealer 200×160 mm

    dealer · 200 × 160 mm

Who the plate belongs to
§ 21 odst. 1 vyhlášky 243/2001 Sb.: the plates are issued "osobě, která zabezpečuje jízdy vozidel dosud neregistrovaných", manufacturers, importers and dealers moving unregistered vehicles. § 21 odst. 2 forbids their use on a vehicle already in the register, with one express exception: test drives during repairs, where the special plate is placed OVER the vehicle's own plate.

Legal basis and sources

  1. vyhláška č. 343/2014 Sb. § 26 odst. 2, § 29 odst. 1 písm. n) až p), § 29 odst. 2. https://aplikace.mv.gov.cz/sbirka-zakonu/ViewFile.aspx?type=z&id=27609
  2. vyhláška č. 243/2001 Sb. § 16 odst. 6 (the format, unchanged since), § 21 odst. 1-2 (who gets them and the repair-test exception), § 22 (the per-plate journey log 'záznamy jízd'). https://aplikace.mv.gov.cz/sbirka-zakonu/ViewFile.aspx?type=c&id=3670

This plate in your app

The series id is cz-dealer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Czechia's series:

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