New Jersey license plate: Temporary

Issued today Documented since 2012. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJ MVC). One of 11 New Jersey license plates.

New Jersey (United States) license plate, Temporary (documented since 2012), sample X493491

Format, years and the law

Format
L999999, for example X493491 (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 2012; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
About this plate
TEMPORARY. Included because New Jersey serialises temporary tags in their own space, which is the L2 test.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Jersey

This plate in your app

The series id is us-nj-temporary. 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-temporary")'