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Florida license plate: Antique

Issued today 1999 to today. Historic plates for car, truck, and bus, issued by Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV). One of 10 Florida license plates.

Florida (United States) license plate, Antique (1999 to today), sample 175
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Format, years and the law

Format
999, for example 175 (9 any digit)

Its own numeric series, statutorily "commencing with Antique No. 1", for vehicles thirty years old and counting, a rolling threshold, the opposite design choice to the Horseless Carriage's fixed one. In 1999 it absorbed and renamed the old twenty-year "Collectible" series.

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
1999 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, truck, and bus.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
ANTIQUE. The chapter law shows the OPPOSITE: the 'Antique' label is itself the 1999 novelty, ch. 99-248 s. (2)(b) grandfathers plates issued under the SECTION's earlier regimes, which is why it is written around 1 October 1999.
Who can have one
motor vehicle for private use manufactured in a model year AFTER 1945 and 'of the age of 30 years or more after the model year', a ROLLING threshold. § 320.086(3) extends the same plates to ancient or antique firefighting apparatus, FORMER MILITARY VEHICLES and other historical motor vehicles 30 years old or older that are 'used only in exhibitions, parades, or public display', with permanent validity tied to that restricted use.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 320.086(2)(a) the rolling 30-year threshold, the 'Antique No. 1' series, distinguishing colour, the regular/specialty opt-out; (2)(b) the 1 October 1999 permanent and 'Collectible' transitions; (3) firefighting... https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/03...
  2. leg.state.fl.us http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0320/SEC086.HTM&StatuteYe...
  3. Laws of Florida ch. 99-248 s. 319); the (2)(b) transition keyed to 1 October 1999 enacted in the same section http://laws.flrules.org/1999/248
  4. § 316.605(1) cross-reference to s. 320.086(5), which EXEMPTS display of plates on described former military vehicles https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0316/Sections/03...

This plate in your app

The series id is us-fl-antique. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Florida's series:

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