Montana license plate: Trailer
Issued today 1989 to today. Trailer plates, issued by Montana Motor Vehicle Division (MVD), Montana Department of Justice. One of 5 Montana license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999999, for example336869(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
- 1989 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Trailer: trailers and semi-trailers where separately serialized. Issued for trailer.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- TRAILER. Kept as its own series because Montana gives it a size rule, a county-prefix consequence and a permanent-registration legend that the passenger plate does not have. The declared-weight size split is the single best example in this group of a US state making the PLATE FORMAT depend on a vehicle attribute plus an owner election.
Legal basis and sources
- MCA 61-3-332(4)(b) and (4)(d): the 6,000 lb declared-weight size split and the owner's paid election; (5) the county-number exemption that rides on the size; (2)(c) the 'permanent' legend option; (3)(d) exemption from... https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0610/chapter_0030/part_0030/section_0320/0610-0030-0030-0320.html
This plate in your app
The series id is us-mt-trailer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Montana's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-mt \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-mt-trailer")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-mt/us-mt-trailer.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-mt/us-mt-trailer/template.svg
