Mexico license plate: Federal inspection

Issued today 2016 to today. Government plates for car, truck, and van, issued by Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT). One of 43 Mexico license plates.

Mexico license plate, Federal inspection (2016 to today), sample AG-97

Format, years and the law

Format
LL-99, for example AG-97 (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
2016 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car, truck, and van.
Size
300 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
SCT road-inspection vehicles (Inspección de Vías Generales de Comunicación), four characters, joint-shortest in the file with the state Auto Antiguo series, and the only Mexican format with two letters followed by exactly two digits.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Tabla C row 1 'Inspección de Vías Generales de Comunicación Federal, AA-00' https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016
  2. Apéndice C 'SERIES ASIGNADAS AD-01 - AZ-99'; Apéndice A Figura 7 (cuatro caracteres) https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016

This plate in your app

The series id is mx-federal-inspection-2016. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Mexico's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/mx \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "mx-federal-inspection-2016")'