Vermont license plate: Municipal

Issued today Documented since 1990. Government plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, Vermont Agency of Transportation. One of 7 Vermont license plates.

Vermont (United States) license plate, Municipal (documented since 1990), sample CDC 760

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example CDC 760 (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
Documented since 1990; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #B22234
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
MUNICIPAL, Vermont's government class. This is given its own series anyway, because the difference is not colour ALONE, the class marker is a second design difference and the issuing population is disjoint (municipalities, not private registrants).

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 304(a): colour as the Commissioner may determine, the authority for a colour-coded government class https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/23/007/00304
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Vermont

This plate in your app

The series id is us-vt-municipal. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Vermont's series:

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