Wisconsin license plate: Temporary
Issued today 2020 to today. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles (WisDOT DMV). One of 8 Wisconsin license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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L9999L, for exampleI7788U(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
- 2020 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- About this plate
- TEMPORARY. The weakest-sourced series in this file, no Wisconsin statute section governing temporary plate form was located, so unlike Ohio (seven characters, forty-five days, by statute) and Michigan (thirty days, serially numbered, destroy on receipt, by statute) there is no primary here at all.
- How numbers are issued
- predecessor observed A10 01A to P24 66U as of 2018-08-07 (secondary)
Legal basis and sources
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Wisconsin
- Wis. Stat. 341.12(3)(a)'s alphabet rule is the only statutory constraint that reaches a temporary plate's serial 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-temporary-2020. 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-temporary-2020")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-wi/us-wi-temporary-2020.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-wi/us-wi-temporary-2020/template.svg
