Guam license plate: Amateur radio
Issued today 1964 to today. Specialty plates for car, van, and truck, issued by Guam Department of Revenue and Taxation (DRT), Motor Vehicle Division. One of 10 Guam license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LL9LL, for exampleVK5ZE(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 1964 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, and truck.
- About this plate
- AMATEUR AND CITIZENS RADIO PLATES. Given its own series rather than folded into the specialty index because the FORMAT differs categorically: this is the only Guam plate whose serial is assigned by a FEDERAL agency and merely transcribed by DRT. It is the cross-jurisdictional twin of Puerto Rico's Art. 2.28 radio-amateur plate, which does exactly the same thing in almost the same words, two territories, two statutes, one delegation to the FCC.
- About the format
- The pattern shows the general shape of a US amateur call sign (prefix letters, a numeral, suffix letters) purely as an illustration. It is NOT a sourced grammar and must not be treated as one until 47 CFR is pinned.
- Fee
- § 7121(b): in addition to the regular registration fee, not exceeding ten dollars ($10.00), charged again whenever the vehicle or its ownership changes
Legal basis and sources
- § 7121 (GC § 23319.1, enacted P.L. 7-075:1, Jan. 30, 1964, amended P.L. 8-105:2, Feb. 24, 1966): the FCC call-letter serial in lieu of the ordinary number, the novice-licence exclusion, the proof requirement, the $10... https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is us-gu-amateur-radio. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Guam's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-gu \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-gu-amateur-radio")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-gu/us-gu-amateur-radio.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-gu/us-gu-amateur-radio/template.svg
