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Florida license plate: Dealer

Issued today Documented since 1997. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV). One of 10 Florida license plates.

Florida (United States) license plate, Dealer (documented since 1997), sample YRS 723
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example YRS 723 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

"Dealer" at the bottom, and the plate binds to the dealership, not to any vehicle. The trap: a dealer may run a specialty design instead, which displaces the legend, the one bottom legend the statute lets disappear.

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
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
DEALER PLATES. The dealer TAX CLASS (§ 320.08(12)) is far older than the legend evidence; what this series records is the legend-bearing plate, and 1997 bounds that. Sentence history actually pinned: ch. 99-248 s. 21 (1999) DELETED the original exception letting gross-vehicle-weight dealer vehicles take a 'Restricted' plate; the CURRENT exception (a specialty design may displace the Dealer legend, s. The specialty carve-out is the interesting fact and a trap for any classifier that keys off the legend.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 320.06(3)(a): the 'Dealer' legend, the § 320.08(12) tax hook, and the specialty-plate exception 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...
  3. laws.flrules.org http://laws.flrules.org/1999/248

This plate in your app

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