New Jersey license plate: Garden state screened
Issued today Documented since 2014. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJ MVC). One of 11 New Jersey license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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L99 LLL, for exampleR26 KTM(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 since 2014; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still 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
#1B1A1A - How numbers are issued
- The second block is evidence the first exhausted, which is useful era-inference signal and is recorded as reported, not as fact.
Legal basis and sources
- NJ MVC's standard-plate page and its official 'Standard Plate Example' image, the source for the 3+3 grouping, the state-outline separator, the gradient, the mixed-case legends and the two-plate rule https://www.nj.gov/mvc/vehicles/standplates.htm
- NJ MVC: 'A personalized plate must have at least three letters and a maximum of seven characters', the only official New Jersey character constraint https://www.nj.gov/mvc/vehicles/personalized.htm
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Jersey
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-nj-garden-state-screened. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New Jersey's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-nj \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-nj-garden-state-screened")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nj/us-nj-garden-state-screened.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nj/us-nj-garden-state-screened/template.svg
