U.S. Virgin Islands license plate: Standard 2016
Retired 2016 to 2023. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by United States Virgin Islands Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). One of 9 U.S. Virgin Islands license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL 999, for exampleCED 338(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
- 2016 to 2023. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- NOTE ALSO that the serial grammar is UNCHANGED across the boundary, same island prefix, same three-plus-three shape, so unlike Guam's 1994/2009 boundary this one cannot be detected from the serial at all. Only the artwork changed, which means a parse API can never date a USVI plate from its number.
Legal basis and sources
- THE END BOUNDARY IS PRIMARY: BMV's notice makes the successor plate mandatory from March 1 2023 and requires surrender of 'the old plates' at renewal, which is what closes this series https://bmv.vi.gov/2023/03/03/2023-emancipation-license-plates/
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands
- CORROBORATION: dated photographs of VI plates in use in 2017, 2018 and September 2019, which place a distinct base in circulation across this window without fixing either boundary http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Virgin_Islands/viy2k.html
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-vi-standard-2016. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of U.S. Virgin Islands's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-vi \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-vi-standard-2016")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-vi/us-vi-standard-2016.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-vi/us-vi-standard-2016/template.svg
