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Florida license plate: Apportioned

Issued today Documented since 1997. Standard plates for 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, Apportioned (documented since 1997), sample GUQ 194
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example GUQ 194 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

"Apportioned" at the bottom is the decode: an International Registration Plan vehicle whose fees are divided among the states its fleet actually runs through. The tell-tale detail is the sticker, a month, not the owner's birth month, because fleets have no birthday.

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

Years issued
Documented since 1997; 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 truck and bus.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
APPORTIONED (International Registration Plan) PLATES. Dating a series by a cycle amendment is the same instrument-date disease as dating it by a statute edition. Still the only Florida plate on a 3-year rather than a 10-year cycle, and the only one whose sticker shows a month rather than the owner's birth month, apportioned vehicles are fleet-registered, so the birth-month scheme cannot apply.
Replacement
years: 3. statutory text: § 320.06(1)(b)2: 'Beginning July 1, 2024, a vehicle registered in accordance with the International Registration Plan must be issued a license plate for a 3-year period. At the end of the 3-year period, upon renewal, the license plate must be replaced.'. note: a CAB CARD stating the declared gross vehicle weight per apportioned jurisdiction is issued annually, $28 original or renewal; a damaged or worn plate is replaced at no charge on surrender

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 320.06(1)(b)2: the IRP 3-year plate 'Beginning July 1, 2024', the annual cab card, the $28 fee, free replacement of damaged plates; (3)(a): the 'Apportioned' bottom legend 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/SEC06.HTM&StatuteYea...

This plate in your app

The series id is us-fl-apportioned. 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-apportioned")'
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