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Northern Mariana Islands license plate: Standard

Issued today 2004 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by CNMI Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Department of Public Safety. One of 4 Northern Mariana Islands license plates.

Northern Mariana Islands (United States) license plate, Standard (2004 to today), sample XKA 690
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example XKA 690 (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
2004 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
CNMI STANDARD ISSUE. THE ENTRY'S REAL VALUE is the HAFA ADAI legend sourced to an edict, and the worldlicenseplates shortage finding, which tells any future decode effort that CNMI government plates have at least once been recycled into general issue.
About the format
THE THREE-LETTER / THREE-NUMERAL ARRANGEMENT IS NOT STATUTORY.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2106: the plate shows the registration number AND YEAR; front and rear at the factory-designated position; legible at 50 feet; no unofficial plates. Plus the PL 14-18 (July 12, 2004) legislative findings recording... https://cnmilaw.org/pdf/cmc_section/T9/2106.pdf
  2. § 2116(c)(1): 'Below the line HAFA ADAI...', the statutory confirmation of the standard plate's slogan line; and § 2116(c) 'the same standard size and shape as regular passenger vehicle license plates' https://cnmilaw.org/pdf/cmc_section/T9/2116.pdf
  3. § 2101: the registration application, the lawful-ownership and FMVSS-compliance evidence, and the § 2101(d) requirement that liability insurance expire in the same month as the registration https://cnmilaw.org/pdf/cmc_section/T9/2101.pdf
  4. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands
  5. No licence statement; no image or text copied http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Northern_Marianas/cnmiy2k.html
  6. CORROBORATION + GAP-FINDER: an independent CNMI page noting historical variants, plates 'with 19 embossed after the registration', the embossed 19 removed for five-digit registrations, and one plate 'Originally a... http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/PA_NMAR.html

This plate in your app

The series id is us-mp-standard. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Northern Mariana Islands's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-mp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-mp-standard")'
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