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Wisconsin license plate: Municipal

Issued today 2019 to today. Government plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles (WisDOT DMV). One of 8 Wisconsin license plates.

Wisconsin (United States) license plate, Municipal (2019 to today), sample C46730
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Format, years and the law

Format
C99999, for example C46730 (9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2019 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
About this plate
MUNICIPAL / PUBLIC-SERVICE. Wisconsin legislates WHO gets these plates and WHAT THEY COST but nothing about how they look, the same split as the dealer series. Note the statutory inclusion of federally recognised Indian tribes and bands alongside the state, counties and municipalities: a sovereignty distinction that most state plate law elides and that a government-plate model should not flatten.
How numbers are issued
observed C10001 to C27194 as of 2024-08-06 (secondary)
Fee
Wis. Stat. 341.26: '$5 shall be paid to the department for the original issuance of a registration plate for any vehicle owned by this state or by any county or municipality or federally recognized Indian tribe or band in this state', or leased to them, 'and operated exclusively... in the public service'; $1 on reassignment to a replacement vehicle.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Wis. Stat. 341.26: the $5 original issuance fee and $1 reassignment fee for state, county, municipal and federally recognised tribal vehicles operated exclusively in the public service; NO design, prefix or marking is... https://codes.findlaw.com/wi/vehicles-ch-340-to-351/wi-st-341-26.html
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Wisconsin
  3. Wis. Stat. 341.12(1)'s law-enforcement discretion over plate count applies to vehicles registered under sections such as 341.26 https://codes.findlaw.com/wi/vehicles-ch-340-to-351/wi-st-341-12.html

This plate in your app

The series id is us-wi-municipal-2019. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Wisconsin's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-wi \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-wi-municipal-2019")'
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