Guam license plate: Temporary

Issued today 2014 to today. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by Guam Department of Revenue and Taxation (DRT), Motor Vehicle Division. One of 10 Guam license plates.

Guam (United States) license plate, Temporary (2014 to today), sample JHD 887

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example JHD 887 (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
2014 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
About this plate
TWO THINGS MAKE THIS SERIES WORTH SPECCING. Second, the plate carries NO SERIAL: its identity is the dealer name plus the VIN plus two dates.
About the format
illustrative only; there is no Guam temporary-plate serial grammar to encode
How long it is valid
§ 7179(e): valid for SIXTY (60) DAYS from issuance, or until a permanent registration plate issues, or until the purchase contract is cancelled or rescinded, whichever occurs FIRST.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 7179 (added P.L. 32-156:2, May 21, 2014): dealer authorisation to issue, the $10 cap, the five mandatory marked fields, the 0.75-inch minimum letter height, the three-way 60-day validity rule, and the three-year... https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is us-gu-temporary. 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-temporary")'