Malaysia license plate: Taxi
Issued today 1987 to today. Taxi plates for car, issued by Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan Malaysia (JPJ). One of 8 Malaysia license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL 9999(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
- 1987 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Taxi: for-hire vehicles where separately serialized or colored. Issued for car.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - About this plate
- TAXIS AND HIRE CARS: black on white, the exact inverse of the ordinary plate, and one of the three plate forms JPJ's own specification page recognises. Note the statutory hook in s. 66(1)(s), Malaysian law expressly contemplates a distinctive number or sign for public service vehicles, which is unusually explicit for a common-law road traffic act.
Legal basis and sources
- JPJ, verbatim: 'Black alphabets and numbers, embossed or glued on a white plate for taxicabs and hired cars.', the inverted colours, one of only three plate forms JPJ recognises. https://web.archive.org/web/20130516074518/http://www.jpj.gov.my/web/eng/specifications-of-vehicle-number-plates
- Road Transport Act 1987 s. 66(1)(s), which expressly empowers rules 'to provide for a distinctive registration number or other sign to be carried by public service vehicles or goods vehicles', the statutory hook for a... https://lom.agc.gov.my/ilims/upload/portal/akta/outputaktap/1871744_BI/Act%20333_Final_15%20Oct%202023%20(25.3.24).pdf
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Malaysia
This plate in your app
The series id is my-taxi. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Malaysia's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/my \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "my-taxi")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/my/my-taxi.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/my/my-taxi/template.svg