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District of Columbia license plate: End taxation

Issued today Documented since 2017. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles (DC DMV). One of 10 District of Columbia license plates.

District of Columbia (United States) license plate, End taxation (documented since 2017), sample ZM-2313
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-9999, for example ZM-2313 (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 since 2017; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #003087
About this plate
END TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION (2017-), THE CURRENT DISTRICT STANDARD ISSUE, and the only standard-issue plate in the United States whose legend is a political demand fixed by law. The statutory opt-out makes the District structurally like Florida: one statutory design with a legislated escape hatch, so the bottom legend is not a property of the series but of the REGISTRANT'S CHOICE. Parallel issuance with the 2013 base is real, no recall was located, which is why the periods overlap with distinct notes.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 50-1501.02(f)(3) the Mayor designs the tags; (f-1) the mandated 'End Taxation Without Representation' phrase, its four carve-outs, and the individual opt-out to an alternate design https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/50-1501.02
  2. DC DMV: two tags front and rear, the agency-page-in-force evidence for the display regime https://dmv.dc.gov/service/dmv-vehicle-tags
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Washington,_D.C

Before and after

District of Columbia (United States) license plate, District of Columbia (documented 2013 to 2017) It replaced District of Columbia documented 2013 to 2017

This plate in your app

The series id is us-dc-end-taxation. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of District of Columbia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-dc \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-dc-end-taxation")'
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