Puerto Rico license plate: Euro optional

Issued today 2012 to today. Standard plates for car and van, issued by Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas (DTOP). One of 7 Puerto Rico license plates.

Puerto Rico (United States) license plate, Euro optional (2012 to today), sample YDC 912

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example YDC 912 (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
2012 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car and van.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Art. 2.18 delegates 'tamaño' to the Secretary by reglamento, the legal room in which an alternative plate size can exist at all https://bvirtual.ogp.pr.gov/ogp/Bvirtual/leyesreferencia/PDF/2/0022-2000.pdf
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Puerto_Rico
  3. CORROBORATION: a photographed 'Puerto Rico Euro style plate seen in use March of 2022', an independent attestation that the option is real and in circulation, which is why this is modelled at all http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Puerto_Rico/pry2k.html

This plate in your app

The series id is us-pr-euro-optional. 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-euro-optional")'