Switzerland license plate: Rental
Retired 1977 to 2001. Dealer plates for car, van, and bus, issued by Bundesamt für Strassen (ASTRA) / kantonale Strassenverkehrsämter. One of 17 Switzerland license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LL 999999, for exampleWE 348835(L is any letter, 9 any digit)Canton letters as ever on Switzerland's short-lived rental-car marking, which the ordinance grouped with the dealer plates. Repealed in 2001, since then a Swiss rental car is indistinguishable from any other, which is rather the point.
The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 1977 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
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 300 × 80 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE MIETWAGEN (RENTAL-CAR) SERIES, ENDED, and the cleanest dated pair of brackets in this file: it begins on 1 July 1977 with Art. 151 Abs. 4's issuance date for specially-marked plates under Art. 82 Abs. 2 lit. b, and it ends on 1 June 2001 with lit. b's repeal (AS 2001 1387). Both dates come from the consolidated ordinance's own apparatus. Since 1 June 2001 Swiss rental cars have carried ordinary plates, which is why no live successor series exists.
- About the format
- Art. 82 Abs. 2 lit. b required rental-car plates to be specially marked but the repealing amendment took the DESCRIPTION of the marking out with the letter, so the consolidated text now reads "b. …" and no primary in reach says what the mark was. Guessing the marking letter was declined.
Legal basis and sources
- VZV Art. 82 Abs. 2 lit. b, now shown as repealed with the footnote 'Aufgehoben durch Ziff. I der V vom 11. April 2001, mit Wirkung seit 1. Juni 2001 (AS 2001 1387)'; Art. 151 Abs. 4 (specially-marked plates under Abs.... https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1976/2423_2423_2423/de
This plate in your app
The series id is ch-rental-1977. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Switzerland's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ch \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ch-rental-1977")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ch/ch-rental-1977.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ch/ch-rental-1977/template.svg
