Individualized (vanity) License Plates
Individualized license plates is an additional type of the plates, available for personal vehicles and motorcycles. State automobile inspection requires a previously vehicle registration with issuing of regular plates before issuing an individualized plates. Using a both plate-sets at the same time prohibited, as well as driving abroad with the individualized license plates.
Individualized plates were firstly introduced in 1997 and included the numeric code of region. From 2004 have been issued plates with no region coding. Current (2007) individualized plates visually replicates the 1997 plates.
Plate-owner can choose Cyrillic or Roman letters for creation of individualized plate followed by some digits. Except the characters plate-owner can choose any image to print on a right-hand side of the plate. As far as known this kind option available only in Ukraine, so Ukrainian individualized plates in this case are uniques.
Prohibited to use next inscriptions and images: any discriminatory or offensive phrases; any national, language, religious or gender self-identification; repeating the names and logos of official state's authorities; repeating the names and logos of foreign states and official foreign states' authorities; e t.c.
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