Puerto Rico license plate: Antique
Issued today 2000 to today. Historic plates for car, issued by Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas (DTOP). One of 7 Puerto Rico license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL 999, for exampleEBZ 979(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 2000 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car.
- About this plate
- ANTIQUE PLATES. Puerto Rico sets a ROLLING threshold (40 years), the same design choice as Florida's Antique series (30 years) and the opposite of Florida's Horseless Carriage (fixed model year 1945).
- Who can have one
- Art. 2.26: a special plate is issued on application to any motor vehicle classifiable as an "automóvil antiguo", meaning any car "que haya sido construido por lo menos CUARENTA (40) AÑOS ANTES DE LA FECHA DE EXPEDICIÓN DE LA TABLILLA", a ROLLING forty-year threshold measured against the ISSUE DATE OF THE PLATE, not against the calendar year.
- Fee
- Art. 2.26: no fee beyond that fixed by law for private-use plates
Legal basis and sources
- Art. 2.26: the rolling 40-year threshold measured from the plate's issue date, the no-extra-fee rule, and the delegation of design/characteristics/issuance/renewal/cancellation to reglamento https://bvirtual.ogp.pr.gov/ogp/Bvirtual/leyesreferencia/PDF/2/0022-2000.pdf
- plateshack.com http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Puerto_Rico/pry2k.html
This plate in your app
The series id is us-pr-antique. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Puerto Rico's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-pr \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-pr-antique")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-pr/us-pr-antique.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-pr/us-pr-antique/template.svg
