Pennsylvania license plate: Visit PA
Issued today Documented since 2017. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Motor Vehicles (PennDOT). One of 9 Pennsylvania license plates.
Every design of this plate 3
The same registration series, issued on 3 looks. Same format, same size; pick one to see it above.
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visitPA.com with the state outline default
2017 to today
The 2017 revision: the state outline in the navy band beside PENNSYLVANIA, no sticker box.
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visitPA.com, no state outline
2004 to 2017
The same base before the 2017 revision: no state outline in the band (the plates then carried a registration sticker at top left).
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visitPA.com base (specimen) specimen photo
2004 to 2017
The 2005 sample plate HAA-000: blue PENNSYLVANIA header, yellow visitPA.com footer, keystone separator.
Based on 2005 Sample Pennsylvania License Plate by Rouge Furby (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL-9999, for exampleABC-1234(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 2017; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#233B6E - About this plate
- visitPA.com (2017-), THE PREVIOUS BASE, WITH NO END YEAR ON PURPOSE.
Legal basis and sources
- PennDOT: 'Plates issued by third-party or non-Commonwealth vendors may still use the previous design' - the official evidence that this series is STILL ISSUING and therefore has no end year https://www.pa.gov/en/agencies/dmv/vehicle-services/registration-plates/standard-issue-registration-plate.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-visitpa. 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-visitpa")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-pa/us-pa-visitpa.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-pa/us-pa-visitpa/template.svg
