California license plate: Temporary
Issued today 2019 to today. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 14 California license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LL99L99, for exampleGI16T19(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
- 2019 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- How long it is valid
- Temporary plates bridge the gap between sale and arrival of the metal plates; the report-of-sale copy is attached to the vehicle before delivery (VC § 4456(a)).
Legal basis and sources
- § 4456: the report-of-sale duty; (a)(9) 'the dealer or lessor-retailer shall attach the temporary license plates issued by the reporting system'; 'This section shall become operative January 1, 2019'; amended Stats.... https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=4456
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_California
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ca-temporary. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of California's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ca \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ca-temporary")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ca/us-ca-temporary.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ca/us-ca-temporary/template.svg
