New Mexico license plate: Standard balloon
Retired 1999 to 2010. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department, Motor Vehicle Division (MVD). One of 8 New Mexico license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL999, for exampleXNN914(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
- 1999 to 2010. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE PREVIOUS BASE, and the reason to keep it is the MIGRATING NM DIGRAPH. A base that spends its serial space by moving a fixed two-letter token along the string, NM1234, 1NM234, 12NM34, 123NM4, 1234NM, is a distinct exhaustion strategy, different from Arizona's (add a character), Nevada's (change the arrangement) and Colorado's (reuse retired serials). Four states, four answers to the same problem, all in this one group; that comparison is the sort of thing the encyclopedia section exists to make.
Legal basis and sources
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Mexico
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-nm-standard-balloon-1999. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New Mexico's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-nm \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-nm-standard-balloon-1999")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nm/us-nm-standard-balloon-1999.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nm/us-nm-standard-balloon-1999/template.svg
