Massachusetts license plate: Standard green
Retired 1977 to 1993. Standard plates for car and van, issued by Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV), a division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. One of 6 Massachusetts license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999 LLL, for example141 PBR(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
- 1977 to 1993. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car and van.
- Colours
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Characters
#00693EBackground#FFFFFF - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE PREVIOUS BASE, AND IT IS STILL BEING DRIVEN. Massachusetts sets no replacement cycle, so green-on-white plates issued as early as 1977 remain lawfully displayed, and registrants reportedly decline free replacement as a point of pride. The practical limit is legibility, not age: an illegible plate fails the annual safety inspection regardless of colour or vintage, which is the real reason old Massachusetts plates leave the road.
Legal basis and sources
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Massachusetts
- §6's display duty is what makes an unreplaced 1977 plate still lawful: the statute requires display of the plates furnished by the registrar, and sets no expiry on a base https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Chapter90/Section6
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ma-standard-green-1977. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Massachusetts's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ma \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ma-standard-green-1977")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ma/us-ma-standard-green-1977.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ma/us-ma-standard-green-1977/template.svg
