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Florida license plate: Restricted

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

Florida (United States) license plate, Restricted (documented since 1997), sample RND 398
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example RND 398 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

"Restricted" at the bottom marks a restricted-use vehicle, a class the statute defines purely by cross-reference to six paragraphs of the vehicle-tax schedule. The serial itself carries no meaning.

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 trailer.
Colours
Characters #1D6B45
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
RESTRICTED-USE PLATES. TRIGGER-LIST DRIFT, recorded not resolved: the 1997 (and still the 1999, per ch. 99-248 s. 21) trigger list INCLUDED s. Categories are recorded conservatively.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 320.06(3)(a): the 'Restricted' bottom legend and the exact list of § 320.08 tax paragraphs it applies to https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/03...
  2. 320.08(3)(d), (4)(m) or (n), (5)(b) or (c), (12), or (14) shall have the word "Restricted" at the bottom', the legend series existed by 1997 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-restricted. 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-restricted")'
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