Mexico license plate: Public car 2001

Retired Documented 2001 to 2016. Taxi plates for car, issued by Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT). One of 43 Mexico license plates.

Mexico license plate, Public car 2001 (documented 2001 to 2016), sample 89-62-RZA

Format, years and the law

Format
99-99-LLL, for example 89-62-RZA (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 2001 to 2016; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Taxi: for-hire vehicles where separately serialized or colored. Issued for car.
Size
300 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
One-back PÚBLICO LOCAL car format of the entidades federativas. The 2000 NOM gives the SAME order to the border público-local row, so this shape covered both, exactly as A-000-AAA does in the 2016 NOM.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Apéndice C row 10 'Público Local (Entidades Federativas), Automóviles, 00-00-AAA' (and row 3, the fronterizo equivalent, same order) https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=774741&fecha=26/01/2001

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is mx-public-car-2001. 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-public-car-2001")'