Pennsylvania license plate: Personalized
Issued today 2017 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Motor Vehicles (PennDOT). One of 9 Pennsylvania license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLLLLLL, for exampleQCUWPXV(L is any letter)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2017 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer.
- About this plate
- PERSONALISED, THE BEST-SPECIFIED FORMAT IN THE MID-ATLANTIC GROUP. Pennsylvania is the only authority here that states its separator rule in terms, and the rule it states is unusually strict (exactly one, hyphen or space, never both).
- About the format
- The alternation is longer and is the only spelling that satisfies the separator contract, which is a small but real demonstration that §2.8's rule has teeth.
- Who can have one
- PennDOT: 'Requests for personal registration plates are restricted to: passenger vehicles, motorcycles, motor homes, trailers, trucks with a registered gross weight of not more than 14,000 pound'.
Legal basis and sources
- PennDOT: seven characters (five for motorcycles); 'One hyphen or one space is permitted, but not both. Special characters are not available.'; the eligible vehicle list; the MV-70S fee pointer https://www.pa.gov/en/agencies/dmv/vehicle-services/registration-plates/personalized-registration-plates.html
This plate in your app
The series id is us-pa-personalized. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Pennsylvania's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-pa \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-pa-personalized")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-pa/us-pa-personalized.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-pa/us-pa-personalized/template.svg
