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POLITICAL PLATES

PLATE TYPE (first year of issue)

PLATE FORMATTING

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UPDATES

SAMPLES AND PROTOTYPES

Cabinet

Historically numbers 3 to 23 were reserved for cabinet level positions, unknown today. Numbers below 10 are still considered to be under control of the governor.

from Tom Perri

from Jordan Irazabal

Commonwealth Court (1999)

FORMAT 1:

C
C

Commonwealth Coat of Arms riveted to plate.

FORMAT 2:

C
C

J 00

from Tom Perri

Governor

FORMAT: 1

The Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania no longer use plates # 1 and 2 as was done some years ago; however, it is likely that these numbers are kept in reserve.

Plate not in use

Lt. Governor

FORMAT: 2

The Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania no longer use plates # 1 and 2 as was done some years ago; however, it is likely that these numbers are kept in reserve.

Plate not in use

Retired Legislator

LEGISLATOR (RET.)

FORMAT:

P
A

000

Earliest plate sighting (9/2004) by Ned Flynn was P/A 098. The numbers appear to correspond to legislative districts.

Vehicle Code Reference

from Eric Conner

from Jordan Irazabal

Retired Senator

The PA over-50 Senatorial plates were for retired senators. This was before the actual Retired Senator plates came out in early in 2009.

FORMAT 1:

51 -

PA within a keystone, on www passenger base, no embossed tag legend. These may have been issued prior to, or concurrently with plates with the embossed SENATOR plate legend.

FORMAT 2:

51 -

PA within a keystone, on www passenger base, with the embossed tag legend. These may have been issued concurrently with or after plates with the state website legend.

FORMAT 3

000

R
S

On visitPA base with Retired Senator along the bottom.

Type added 6/11/2009

from Tom Perri

from Nick Tsilakis

Image needed

State Officials and Dignitaries

(and low-numbered vanities)

FORMAT: 24 - 999; A0 - Z9; 0A - 9Z

from Jim McDevitt

State Representative

FORMAT 1:

1 -

203

Plate number corresponds to legislative district from 1 to 203. Prefix and suffix placement of the HR allows for two vehicles to be registered.

FORMAT 2:

1 -

203

Wide REPRESENTATIVE font. Some plates were produced with this variation.

FORMAT 3:

- 203

It is unknown if the wide tag legend font seen in Format 2 above is used with the HR designator in the suffix position.

FORMAT 4:

1 -

203

On visitPA base with narrow REPRESENTATIVE font.

FORMAT 5:

- 203

On the visitPA base is likely to exist as well.

Vehicle Code Reference

from Tom Perri

from Nick Tsilakis

1-digit Format 3 image needed

from Tom Perri

Image needed

State Senator

FORMAT 1:

1 -

Plate number corresponds to senatorial district from 1 to 50. Prefix and suffix placement allows for two vehicles to be registered.

FORMAT 2:

1 -

with wide spacing between PA and the number.

FORMAT 3:

- 50

FORMAT 4:

- 50

With wide spacing between the number and PA.

FORMAT 5:

1 -

On visitPA base.

FORMAT 6:

- 50

On the visitPA base is likely to exist as well.

Vehicle Code Reference

from Nick Tsilakis

from Eric Conner

from Tom Perri

Image needed

Superior Court

FORMAT 1:

S
C

FORMAT 2:

S
C

PJ1

President Judge

This plate type has an interesting history; it is unknown when the plate type was first issued, but I saw one in 1997 — unfortunately no image. That plate was yellow on blue and had SUPR as a prefix followed by a one or two-digit number like 4 or 04. Then in September of 1999 the plates were reissued on the www base. Those plate were reissued on a number for number basis using the same format as the previous issue. Then in February 2002 the plates were redesigned and reissued in the current format. It is unknown how many of these plates are in use, but the series is reserved from ^S/_C01to^S/_C30.