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# General scheme # Military plates # Civilian state administration plates (''domaines''). GENERAL SCHEME (UNTIL 2009) The plate bears a "number" of the following formats: either ''nnnn LL dd'', or ''nnn LLL dd''.
Car owners must re-register their car if they relocate permanently to another ''département''. There used to be a once-per year tax on cars , called the ''vignette'', whose rate depended on the department. This tax now only exists for corporate-owned vehicles (and there exist exemptions for small numbers of vehicles); it is thus no longer important to know the department of a car on sight. Furthermore, computerized files allow maintaining large national databases without splitting them at the local level. A side effect of the car tax system was that many corporations registered their cars in departments with the lower rates, such as Marne (51); regulations aimed at preventing such schemes were passed in 1999. GENERAL SCHEME (FROM 2009) The number will be composed of a serial of 7 alphanumeric characters, made up of 2 letters maximum, 3 numbers maximum, and then 2 letters maximum (for instance: AB-123-CD). There is no local code as in the previous system, it is only a sequential number. This number will be allocated to a car and will not change, even though the car is sold or the owner relocates. Moreover, the car owner will have the possibility to add a blue strip on the right, with the regional logo and the number of his/her departement. MILITARY PLATES Military plates bear an 8-digit number, as well as, generally, the insignia of the branch of the military forces to which they belong:
CIVILIAN STATE ADMINISTRATIVE PLATES These concern civilian vehicles owned by the national government; it does not include local governments. They are of the form ''dddL nnnnM''.
National Police forces are registered in using this scheme while Municipal Police forces are registered in using the standard scheme. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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