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Rhode Island license plate: Standard

Issued today 2023 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles, Rhode Island Department of Revenue. One of 6 Rhode Island license plates.

Rhode Island (United States) license plate, Standard (2023 to today), sample 6AN 455
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Format, years and the law

Format
9LL 999, for example 6AN 455 (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
2023 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #0B2C5C
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
RHODE ISLAND CURRENT STANDARD, the "Ocean Plate". The interesting property for a parse API is that Rhode Island DOES NOT PARTITION ITS SERIAL SPACE BY BASE: the 2023 plate continued the 1996 base's sequence, and the 2023 base is also used to remake serials in every historical Rhode Island format. So a Rhode Island serial identifies a REGISTRATION, not a plate generation, and any inference from format to era is unsafe here in a way it is not in Maine or Massachusetts.
Separators
printed with a gap (1AB 234).

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 31-3-11(a): the assigned registration number, the state name with its 'R.I.' abbreviation permission, the year-or-expiration marking, and the mandatory words 'ocean state' https://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/TITLE31/31-3/31-3-11.HTM
  2. § 31-3-10: two fully reflective plates for every motor vehicle outside the enumerated single-plate classes https://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/TITLE31/31-3/31-3-10.HTM
  3. § 31-3-12: the 100-foot daylight legibility standard and the year-number exemption https://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/TITLE31/31-3/31-3-12.HTM
  4. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Rhode_Island

Before and after

Rhode Island (United States) license plate, Wave (1996 to 2023) It replaced Wave 1996 to 2023

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ri-standard-2023. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Rhode Island's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ri \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ri-standard-2023")'
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