Latvia license plate: Taxi

Issued today Documented since 2010. Taxi plates for car and van, issued by CSDD. One of 15 Latvia license plates.

Latvia license plate, Taxi (documented since 2010), sample VE5674

Format, years and the law

Format
LL9999, for example VE5674 (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 2010; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Taxi: for-hire vehicles where separately serialized or colored. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F5C400
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Latvia license plate, Taxi 300×110 mm (documented since 2010)

    Taxi 300×110 mm

    taxi · 300 × 110 mm

About this plate
THE YELLOW TAXI PLATE. A CORRECTION WORTH STATING: secondary compilations give Latvian taxi plates a "TX" (or TE/TQ) series prefix. The annex prescribes only "two letters", with no reserved combination anywhere, and no CSDD page reached names one. The one thing that distinguishes a Latvian taxi mark in the string alone is nothing; it is the yellow ground that does the work.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 7. pielikums 4.5.1-4.5.3, 1.4 (E type dimensions); punkts 13.5 https://likumi.lv/ta/id/222145-transportlidzeklu-registracijas-noteikumi
  2. CSDD contrasts the taxi 'dzeltenās' plates with the general-use 'baltās' ones https://www.csdd.lv/transportlidzekla-numura-zimes/taksometru-numuru-zimes

This plate in your app

The series id is lv-taxi. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Latvia's series:

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