Maine license plate: Commercial
Issued today 2007 to today. Standard plates for truck, issued by Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV), Department of the Secretary of State. One of 7 Maine license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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9L-9999, for example7R-5226(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
- 2007 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for truck.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- COMMERCIAL. What makes Maine's case worth recording is that the legend swap is STATUTORILY AUTHORISED rather than merely departmental, §451(4-A)(C) anticipates exactly this substitution.
Legal basis and sources
- §451(4-A)(C): the statutory authority to replace the bottom slogan with class codes on non-passenger plates, the legal basis for this series' legend https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/29-A/title29-Asec451.html
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Maine
This plate in your app
The series id is us-me-commercial. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Maine's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-me \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-me-commercial")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-me/us-me-commercial.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-me/us-me-commercial/template.svg
