Liechtenstein license plate: Rental V

Retired 1978 to 2001. Dealer plates for car, van, and bus, issued by Amt für Strassenverkehr (ASV), Fürstentum Liechtenstein. One of 13 Liechtenstein license plates.

Liechtenstein license plate, Rental V (1978 to 2001)

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99999 V (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
1978 to 2001. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, and bus.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
Size
300 × 80 mm · every country's size
About this plate
MIETWAGEN, rental cars, marked with the letter V. Repealed in 2001 and not reissued. Recorded because plates in circulation outlive their instruments and a parse API meeting an old V plate should be able to date it: a V marking places the registration before 2001. Liechtenstein and Switzerland repealed their equivalent rental markings within months of each other, from separately-enacted ordinances, a striking convergence that is NOT a legal relationship (structural fact 4).
About its years
A CLEANLY CLOSED SERIES. The marking is in the 1978 VZV as originally enacted, Art. 71 Abs. 2 Bst. b, "die Schilder für Mietwagen mit dem Buchstaben 'V'", and Bst. b was REPEALED by LGBl. 2001 Nr. 118. The start is an upper bound in the same sense as the other 1978 rows; the end is fixed by a repealing instrument, which is the strongest kind of end date available.

Legal basis and sources

  1. the ORIGINAL VZV text, Art. 71 Abs. 2 Bst. b: 'die Schilder für Mietwagen mit dem Buchstaben "V"' https://www.gesetze.li/chrono/html/1978020000
  2. the consolidated text showing Art. 71 Abs. 2 Bst. b as 'Aufgehoben', repealed by LGBl. 2001 Nr. 118 https://www.gesetze.li/konso/1978.020

This plate in your app

The series id is li-rental-v. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Liechtenstein's series:

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