Rhode Island license plate: Wave
Retired 1996 to 2023. 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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9LL 999, for example4PM 779(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
- 1996 to 2023. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#0B2C5C - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- Two facts worth carrying past this gate. First, the 123-456 arrangement ran BACKWARDS (710-001 down to 399-999), the second descending US sequence this group found after New Hampshire's six-digit passenger series, descending serials are evidently not a curiosity but a recurring administrative choice, and any era-inference model that assumes monotone ascent is wrong twice in six states.
- Separators
- the AB-12/AB-123 and 123-456 forms print a HYPHEN, which is in the emitted set; the 1AB 234 form prints a space, EXCEPT in the reported 1AL-to-1BQ blocks which printed no separator at all. Every one of those is covered by the optional-separator spelling, which is precisely what §2.6's forgiving/emitted split exists to make sound
Legal basis and sources
- § 31-3-11: the statutory contents this base satisfied unchanged across all four of its serial grammars https://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/TITLE31/31-3/31-3-11.HTM
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Rhode_Island
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ri-wave-1996. 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-wave-1996")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ri/us-ri-wave-1996.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ri/us-ri-wave-1996/template.svg
