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Louisiana license plate: Dealer

Issued today 2012 to today. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV), Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Public Safety Services. One of 7 Louisiana license plates.

Louisiana (United States) license plate, Dealer (2012 to today), sample BA96117
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL99999, for example BA96117 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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

Years issued
2012 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
LOUISIANA DEALER INVENTORY PLATES. The class is thoroughly sourced by the policy and the format is not, which is the recurring shape of this file. Worth carrying forward: Louisiana runs new-car and used-car dealer licensing through two separate commissions but issues them the same plate class, and it maintains a PERSONALIZED DEALER plate (R.S. 47:473.1) whose configurations Policy 21.00 expressly deconflicts against ordinary vanity plates, 'Identical personalized prestige plates cannot be issued, INCLUDING personalized prestige plates with the character configuration already on a personalized dealer plate.' Two vanity namespaces sharing one uniqueness constraint is a genuinely unusual registry design.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Louisiana OMV Policy 5.00, 'Dealer Inventory Plates', authority R.S. 47:473, the LMVC/LUMVC licensing split, the $15 per-plate fee, the application form DPSMV1640, and the lost/stolen plate procedure https://public.powerdms.com/ladpsc/documents/370971
  2. Policy 45.00 Category #2: R.S. 47:473 dealer plates, 47:473.1 personalized dealer, 47:473.2 handicapped dealer/commercial, the statutory three-way subdivision of the dealer class https://public.powerdms.com/ladpsc/documents/370991
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Louisiana

This plate in your app

The series id is us-la-dealer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Louisiana's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-la \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-la-dealer")'
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