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Puerto Rico license plate: Dealer

Issued today 2000 to today. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas (DTOP). One of 7 Puerto Rico license plates.

Puerto Rico (United States) license plate, Dealer (2000 to today), sample FLO 773
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example FLO 773 (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
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
About this plate
The genuinely distinctive Puerto Rico fact is that the ALLOCATION IS DISCRETIONARY AND LOGGED: Art. 2.14(E) makes the number of dealer plates a per-dealer administrative decision and requires a vehicle-by-vehicle, date-stamped use register open to Department and Police inspection. Most US states issue dealer plates against a fee schedule; Puerto Rico issues them against a judgement about "el desempeño adecuado y responsable" of the dealer.
Who can have one
Art. 2.14: anyone selling motor vehicles or trailers at retail for profit must obtain a "Licencia de Concesionario de Vehículos de Motor y Arrastres". Art. 2.15 creates a SECOND, narrower licence, the "concesionario especial", for those who buy, rescue, salvage, repair, rebuild and sell WRECKED vehicles in limited quantities, with the maximum number of vehicles set by reglamento.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Art. 2.14(A) the dealer licence and its exclusion of Art. 2.15 special concessionaires; Art. 2.14(E) the per-dealer special-plate quota and the inspectable use register; Art. 2.14(F) the penalty; Art. 2.15 the special... https://bvirtual.ogp.pr.gov/ogp/Bvirtual/leyesreferencia/PDF/2/0022-2000.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is us-pr-dealer. 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-dealer")'
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