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Application for an Antique Motor Vehicle Plate or

Year of Manufacture Registration Plate

Customer Information

Name: _________________________________ License Number: _____________________

Check One:

Address: ___________________________________________________________________

Antique Normal

City/Town: __________________________________________ Zip: ___________________

Antique Vanity

Daytime Telephone Number: ___________________________________________________

Year of Manufacture

Definitions:

Only motor vehicles meeting the definition of an “Antique motor car” may display an Antique registration plate. At the

discretion of the Registrar, a Year of Manufacture registration plate may be issued for display on an “antique motor

car” in place of an Antique registration plate.

An “antique motor car” is any motor vehicle over twenty-five years old maintained solely for use in exhibitions, club

activities, parades, and other functions of public interest. This includes test drives to prepare for such functions and

transportation to and from repair facilities, and not used primarily for the transportation of passengers or goods over any

way. A motorcycle is eligible for an Antique registration plate.

A “Year of Manufacture Plate” is a registration plate (in the possession of the Applicant) originally issued by the

Commonwealth in the exact year of manufacture of the antique motor car to which it is proposed to be attached. If no

registration plate(s) was issued in a particular year, a registration plate originally issued in a prior year may be approved

by the Registrar for use as a Year of Manufacturer Plate on the "antique motor car" to which it is proposed to be attached.

Year of Manufacture Vanity Plates or Year of Manufacture Antique Plates are not available.

RMV Policies for Use of Year of Manufacture Plates:

1. The vehicle owner must complete this Application and sign in the presence of a Notary.

2. The plate must be physically presented to the Registrar for inspection and approval.

(i)

The plate can contain no more than six (6) characters.

(ii)

The plate must be in good repair and in original condition. Its letters, numbers and markings must be

clearly legible. Any indication that the plate has been repainted or otherwise altered will cause the Registrar to

reject use of the plate.

(iii) The plate must be sufficiently distinctive in appearance so as not to be confused with currently issued plates.

If the Registrar has already approved the use of a plate as a Year of Manufacture plate, which contains a

specific combination of letters and numbers (or letters or numbers alone), that same combination on a

different Year of Manufacture plate is not sufficiently distinctive and will not be approved as another Year of

Manufacture plate.

(iv) A Year of Manufacture plate may be approved by the Registrar for use on an antique motor car of a different

type than that for which the registration plate was originally issued. For example, a truck plate may be

approved for use on an antique automobile and an automobile plate may be approved for use on an antique

truck. (A motorcycle plate can only be used on a motorcycle, however.)

(v)

The Registrar may approve of the display of only one (1) Year of Manufacture plate (if that is all that is

available) even though the RMV issued two (2) plates per vehicle in the year the plate was originally issued.

(vi) A Year of Manufacture plate must be displayed pursuant to Chapter 90, Section 6 of the General Laws but

the registration decal for the current registration period need not be attached to the plate. If it is not attached to

the plate it must be carried in the antique vehicle at all times and presented at the request of a Police Officer.

(vii) A plate displaying the word “Antique” CANNOT be used as a “Year of Manufacture Plate.”

Note: If your Year of Manufacture plate is ever suspended or revoked, the Registrar may require the plate

be turned in to the Registry of Motor Vehicles.

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T20132-0404

Form T20132-0404 - Application For An Antique Motor Vehicle Plate Or Year Of Manufacture Registration Plate Form

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