Personalized Licence Plate
A personalized plate cannot be requested for dealer, antique, consular corps or disabled plates.
Your plate must follow these guidelines:
Personalized plates are issued on a first come first served basis. Plate configurations cannot be reserved.
There are also restrictions on what you can have on your personalized plate:
Your plate must follow these guidelines:
- must be letters and/or numbers – special characters are not permitted,including - (hyphen), ’ (apostrophe), ! (exclamation mark), ? (question mark)
- have a minimum of 1 character and/or a maximum of 7 characters for regular plates
- have a minimum of 1 character and/or a maximum of 5 characters for motorcycle plates
Personalized plates are issued on a first come first served basis. Plate configurations cannot be reserved.
There are also restrictions on what you can have on your personalized plate:
- cannot be a look-alike or similar plate to one that already exists
- can’t use the letter O, only a 0 (zero) may be used
- no ethnic slurs
- no religious slurs
- no foul language
- no sexual connotations
- no political slurs
- no illegal acts
- no text that may cause identification problems, such as MLA, Mayor, Doctor, etc.
- no text message abbreviation that may be offensive.
- no words when translated are offensive.
- no reference to alcoholic beverages, controlled substances or paraphernalia used in the consumption of these
- must not be a configuration used by Motor Vehicles for regular licence plates
How to apply for your personalized licence plate
You must bring your Alberta driver licence and come in person to our office to place the order. Please review the above guidelines prior to choosing your configuration. The cost is $218.00
Transferring and changing a personalized plate
You may request a change to your personalized plate after the order is placed, within the first 90 days to:
- cancel and refund – you must return both unused licence plates
- exchange the unused plate for a new configuration
A personalized licence plate can only be transferred:
Once a personalized licence plate is issued, you don’t pay any additional fees to retain the special plate. You only pay the standard vehicle registration renewal fee.
- to an immediate family member, such as mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, spouse, common-law spouse and in-laws
- between a company and the company owner, when the person is the only owner of the company
Once a personalized licence plate is issued, you don’t pay any additional fees to retain the special plate. You only pay the standard vehicle registration renewal fee.