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A vanity plate (US), prestige plate, personalised registration (UK) or personalised plate (Australia) is a special type of number plate (license plate in America), on an automobile or other vehicle. The owner of the vehicle will have paid extra money to have his or her own choice of numbers or letters, usually forming a recognisable phrase, slogan, or initialism on their plate. Sales of vanity plates are often a significant source of revenue for North American provincial and state licencing agencies. In some jurisdictions, such as the Canadian province of British Columbia, the vanity plates look totally different from the regular issue plates. In some states and provinces, optional plates can also be vanity plates and are a choice of motorists who want a more distinctive personalised plate. However, the maximum number of characters on an optional plate may be smaller than on a standard-issue plate. For example, the U.S. state of Virginia allows up to 7.5 characters (a space or hyphen is counted as 0.5 character) on a standard-issue plate, but only up to 6 characters on many of its optional plates; while the state of New York allows 8 characters and issues the vanity plates as flat instead of embossed plates. In many jurisdictions, such as New York * and Virginia, a motorist may check the availability of a desired combination online. All American states and Canadian provinces that issue vanity plates have a "Blue List" of vanity plates that list banned words, phrases or letter/number combinations. The American state of Florida, for example, has banned such plates as "PIMPALA", whilst the state of New York bans any plates with the letters "FDNY", "NYPD", or GOD among others. *. Often the ban is to eliminate confusion with plates used on governmental vehicles or plates used on other classes of vehicles. However, a licensing authority's discretion to deny or revoke "offensive" vanity plates is finite. For example, some U.S. motorists have sued their state governments on that issue under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and won.
In the United Kingdom, number plates are issued by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency. They do not approve personalised registrations if they contain words which are offensive in any (widely used) language. Some plates only acquire significance because of particular owners, e.g. COM1C was formerly owned by the comedian, Jimmy Tarbuck, while the unremarkable 1967 plate BEL 12 E is owned by the Belizean High Commission and CHN1 is owned by the Chinese embassy.
In Australia the various states offer personalised plate schemes, with some states having a yearly fee to maintain the cherished number. In the Australian state of Queensland the personalised plate scheme helps fund the Road Safety Activities Fund.
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Upset with (the following list is not inclusive): the Va DMV, the US Senate, Steve Jobs, the weather, DuPont, and vanity plates.
cjdumler (Chris Dumler) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:08:18 -0000
Upset with (the following list is not inclusive): the Va DMV, the US Senate, Steve Jobs, the weather, DuPont, and vanity plates.
State raised the cost of vanity license plates by $15. I was going to ditch mine, but decided to shell out the extra $$$ to keep "WORDGUY."
MrWordKraft (Tim Kraft) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:54:57 -0000
State raised the cost of vanity license plates by $15. I was going to ditch mine, but decided to shell out the extra $$$ to keep "WORDGUY."
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TalibanREX (Tee Rex [ABN]) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:43:25 -0000
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Why do all VW bugs have vanity plates?? "DZSBUG" dumb
jbordinhao (Jansen Bordinhao) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:16:32 -0000
Why do all VW bugs have vanity plates?? "DZSBUG" dumb
Appropriate all things considered. Is #JohnJuan available? ;) :) RT @singsingsueanne: Vanity plates? @Ketsugo_John
Ketsugo_John (John W) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:01:20 -0000
Appropriate all things considered. Is #JohnJuan available? ;) :) RT @singsingsueanne: Vanity plates? @Ketsugo_John
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