Pennsylvania license plate: Temporary
Issued today 2017 to today. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, 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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9999-999, for example1861-491(9 any digit)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
- Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- About this plate
- TEMPORARY. THE CLASS IS STATUTORY AND THE STATUTE IS UNUSUALLY EXPLICIT about what temporary plates are FOR - removal from the Commonwealth, or the gap pending permanent plates - and about their one physical distinction, the reflectorisation exemption.
Legal basis and sources
- § 1331(c): 'The department shall provide temporary registration plates for use on vehicles which are to be removed from this Commonwealth or for use as necessary pending issuance of permanent registration plates'; §... https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-75-pacsa-vehicles/pa-csa-sect-75-1331.html
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Pennsylvania
This plate in your app
The series id is us-pa-temporary. 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-temporary")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-pa/us-pa-temporary.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-pa/us-pa-temporary/template.svg
