Maryland license plate: War of 1812
Retired Documented 2010 to 2016. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration (MDOT MVA). One of 7 Maryland license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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9L L9999, for example2B Q9019(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
- Documented 2010 to 2016; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#003087 - About this plate
- WAR OF 1812 (2010-2016), THE PREVIOUS BASE.
- Separators
- THE SEPARATOR ON THIS BASE IS A GRAPHIC, NOT A CHARACTER. A SOLIDUS could not be spelled even if it were printed: '/' is in the FORGIVING set but not the EMITTED set, so the lint would reject it.
Legal basis and sources
- the statutory frame is unchanged across the base change - § 13-410 did not move https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gtr§ion=13-410&enactments=false
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Maryland
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-md-war-of-1812. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Maryland's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-md \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-md-war-of-1812")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-md/us-md-war-of-1812.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-md/us-md-war-of-1812/template.svg
