Puerto Rico license plate: Specialty index

Format, years and the law

Format

LLL 999, for example FCY 496 (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

Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.

About this plate

Two things worth carrying forward. First, PUERTO RICO'S SPECIALTY CATALOGUE IS AN EDICT: seven programmes, seven articles, all public domain and all citable per claim, a materially better provenance than the agency-webpage counts most US states offer, and worth saying so on the encyclopedia page. Second, THE COUNT IS CONTESTED IN THE MOST INFORMATIVE WAY POSSIBLE: photographs prove programmes the served statute does not create, which means the served scan is either not current or not exhaustive.

Legal basis and sources

1. Arts. 2.20, 2.26, 2.27, 2.28, 2.29, 2.30, 2.31, the seven statutory specialty programmes, their eligibility, fees, display rules and penalties; Art. 2.31(a) the front-plate inversion; Arts. 2.21-2.24 the disabled... https://bvirtual.ogp.pr.gov/ogp/Bvirtual/leyesreferencia/PDF/2/0022-2000.pdf
2. DTOP/CESCO driver-services portal, the official channel; no enumerated specialty catalogue found (gap) https://www.cesco.pr.gov/
3. This is how the statute-versus-practice discrepancy above was FOUND; no text or image was copied http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Puerto_Rico/pry2k.html