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Brazilian license plates use colour schemes to show their type, and front and rear plates use the same colours: Brazilian vehicle number plates are issued by the states. Each state has a ''Departamento de Trânsito'' (DETRAN) that is charged with vehicle registration and car tax collection, but plates are standardized across the country and form a national vehicle registration database. The current system was created in 1990 and was named ''Registro Nacional de Veículos Automotores'' (RENAVAM). It uses the form "LLL·NNNN", where LLL is a three-letter combination followed by a four-digit number with a dot between the letters and numbers. A combination given to one vehicle stays with it "for life" - it cannot be changed or transferred to another vehicle. Vanity plates are allowed as long as they abide to the same standard as non-vanity plates. Above the combination is a metallic band with the State abbreviation (SP = São Paulo, RJ = Rio de Janeiro, PR = Paraná, AM = Amazonas etc.) and the name of the municipality in which the vehicle is currently registered. This band has to be changed when a vehicle needs to be registered in a different municipality. Rear number plates are bound to the vehicle by a plastic seal. Broken seals invalidate the number plate, which has to be re-sealed by the authorities. Seals need to be broken in order to change State/Municipality tags. The size of the Brazilian license plates has been standardized to 400 x 130 mm (15" x 5" approx.) in 2008. That standardization also determines a unique typeface known as "Mandatory", which is similar to the typeface used on British plates introduced there in 2001. The Mandatory font can be downloaded free for personal use from K-Type. Plates in Japanese or European size can no longer be used as of January 1, 2008. * black on grey: privately owned vehicles * white on red: any kind of paid transportation (buses, taxis etc.) * red on white: driving school (''autoescola'' in Portuguese) * black on white: official use (government-owned cars: police departments, fire departments, federal, state or city public services) * gray on black: collector's items (vehicles older than 30 years in excellent state of conservation and in original state - with more than 80% of its original components). * white on green: manufacturer plates for vehicles under testing, dealer-testing, or in some cases test-drive (in most cases test-drive cars are registered to the dealership and thus use black on grey plates; privately owned cars being tested after repairs usually carry dealer-fitted green plates over their black on grey plates) * white on blue: diplomatic use (in this case in the format CD 1234 or CC 1234) or newer licenses like EMB 1234) The letters on the license plate can describe the state where a vehicle was originally registered. Vehicles relocated from one state to another will show the new state/municipality on the replaceable tag, but it is always possible to determine the place of original registration for a used vehicle by observing the license plate range for each Brazilian State: ==External links== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vehicle registration plates of Brazil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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