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On an automobile or other vehicle. Sales of vanity plates are often a significant source of revenue for North American provincial and state licensing agencies. See also: Vehicle registration plates of the United States § Vanity and specialty plates. A vanity plate in Amarillo, Texas. Vanity plates are issued by every U. State and the District of Columbia. And every Canadian province except Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2007, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.

(AAMVA) and Stefan Lonce, author of License to Roam: Vanity License Plates and the Stories They Tell, conducted North America's first state by state and province by province survey of vanity plates, revealing that there are 9.7 million vehicles with personalized vanity license plates. The survey ranked jurisdictions by "vanity plate penetration rate", which is the percentage of registered motor vehicles that are vanitized. Vanity plate penetration rate (16.19%), followed by New Hampshire. Had the lowest vanity plate penetration rate (0.5%).

According to the Federal Highway Administration. In 2005 there were 242,991,747 privately owned and commercial registered automobiles, trucks, and motorcycles in the U. And 3.83% of eligible U. Had the highest Canadian vanity plate penetration rate (4.59%), followed by Saskatchewan. (1.79%), and the Northwest Territories.

Had the lowest vanity plate penetration rate (0.59%) among those provinces that issue vanity plates. In 2006 there were 14,980,046 registered motor vehicles excluding buses. And off-road, farm and construction vehicles in the provinces and territories that issue vanity plates, and 2.94% of eligible Canadian vehicles have vanity plates. Massachusetts vanity plate on a parked motorcycle. In some states and provinces, optional plates can also be vanity plates and are a choice of motorists who want a more distinctive personalized plate. However, the maximum number of characters on an optional plate may be lower than on a standard-issue plate. State of Virginia allows up to 7.5 characters (a space or hyphen is counted as 0.5 character) on a standard-issue plate, but only up to 6 characters on many of its optional plates. States and Canadian provinces that issue vanity plates have a "blue list" of vanity plates that contains banned words, phrases, or letter/number combinations. For example, has banned such plates as "PIMPALA". While the state of New York. Bans any plates with the letters FDNY. Often the ban is to eliminate confusion with plates used on governmental vehicles or plates used on other classes of vehicles. However, a licensing authority's discretion to deny or revoke "offensive" vanity plates is finite, as some U. Motorists have successfully sued their state governments on that issue under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The "blue list" is not definitive; in general, the agent processing an application for a vanity plate can reject a plate if it is deemed offensive, even if the phrase does not match a banned word exactly. State DMVs have received complaints about offensive vanity plates. In this case, the DMV can revoke a plate if it is deemed offensive, even if it had been previously approved. The "blue list" may be limited to genuine vanity plates, not covering computer-generated accidents. For example, Florida's famous "A55 RGY" license plate (with the standard drawing of an orange in the middle) looks like "ASS ORGY".

The state of Georgia banned the word covfefe. ", a misspelling of the word "coverage that was coined by U. On his Twitter to its customized plates.

Self-referencing vanity plate in Michigan. In some cases, a plate that has already been issued can be recalled and stripped from the vehicle's owner if the plate's message is found to be in violation after it has been issued. January 2 - July 3, 1966. Urutora Kyu is a tokusatsu. Series made in the tradition of Toho. Produced in black and white by Tokyo Broadcasting System. This is actually the first of the long-running Ultra Series. And was broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System. (TBS) from January 2 to July 3, 1966 (the final episode was preempted until December 14, 1967), with a total of 28 episodes. This series was followed two weeks later by the more popular Ultraman. (1966), the second Ultra Series. Ultra Q can be described as a half-hour Toho. Intended this series to be more like the American television series The Twilight Zone.

Featuring all kinds of strange and unusual stories. After a survey, the TBS network convinced Tsuburaya Productions. To add more giant monsters, as children were intensely interested in them, since Godzilla.

Were all the rage at the time (the first "Kaiju Boom" took off after Ultra Q became an enormous hit). The series features continuing characters who investigate strange supernatural. Phenomena, including giant monsters, aliens, ghosts, and various other threats. The original planned title of this project was Unbalance, and was subsequently rechristened Ultra Q mostly due to the word "Ultra" gaining popularity due to the Japanese gymnast Gold Medal recipient in the 1964 Summer Olympics. Using a technique named Ultra C. The series began production in 1964, with the premiere set for January 1966. At the time, this was the most expensive television series ever produced in Japan. The "Q" stands for "Question" and also tied with another hit TBS series, Obake no Q-taro. An animated series based on the manga. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Transportation\Automobilia\License Plates\US: California".