Vehicle registration plates of Ventora

 are s required for road vehicles and a a variety of off-road vehicles operated on publicly accessible roadways in Ventora. They are often referred to as matrícs from their official designation in matrícula del vehículo, which means vehicle registration plate. Registration plates must be displayed on the front and rear of most road vehicles and the rear only for motorcycles, mopeds, trailers, other specialty vehicles such as s and off-highway vehicles.

Format
Vehicle owners purchase conforming registration plates from private vendors. The plates must bear the assigned registration code and meet all requirements for dimensions, color, layout, and character shape and size according to specifications established by the Transport Licensure Service. The background color must be yellow-gold with dark-red characters, both in material, except military plates which are non-reflective dark green with black characters. They may be made of steel, aluminum, plastic, composites, or other rigid, durable material.

Standard-sized road vehicle plates for cars, trucks, buses, and their trailers, are rectangular, measuring 520 x 120 mm. A two-line variant measuring 300 x 200 mm may be used if the configuration of the vehicle precludes using the standard-sized registration plate. Motorcycles, mopeds, and other specialty vehicles may use a smaller plate measuring 240 x 180 mm. A likeness of the flag of Ventora above the country code VE appears at the left of standard plates and in the upper left of motorcycle and double-row plates.

Alphabetic characters must be in , a specially designed typeface which precludes efforts to falsify the registration code using tape. Because of specific designs of characters, efforts to change a letter or number to another would appear disproportionately irregular. The letters I and O are not used in serialization to avoid confusion with the numbers 1 and 0 but may be used otherwise. For example, all letters are needed to identify which of 26 duchies a vehicle is registered in.

Private plates
Non-commercial private vehicle registration codes take the format AA nnn AA. The first alphabetic character designates the while the second character designates a city, municipality, or county of registration. The numbers and ending two alphabetic characters are serially assigned. This yields 576,000 possible combinations in each duchy/city-county pair, 14,976,000 possible registrations per duchy, and 389,736,000 nationally before the scheme is exhausted.

Commercial vehicles
With as many possible variations, commercial vehicle registrations take the format AA AA nnn. As with private vehicle registrations, the first two characters represent the duchy and city, municipality, or county. The trailing characters are serially assigned, as with the non-commercial plate.

Trailers and off-highway vehicles
Trailer and off-highway vehicle registration plates follow the format AA nnAnn. Off-highway vehicles include road construction, mining equipment, and agricultural implements. Again, the first two characters represent the duchy and locality, with the remaining characters serially assigned. The scheme allows for 24,000 trailer and off-highway vehicle registrations per locality. This yields 624,000 possibilities in each duchy and a national capacity of 16,224,000 such registrations.

Government plates
Registration plates used on government-owned vehicles follow one of three schemes depending on the level of government. For the national government, there are 470,016,000 possible variations while duchy and local governments each have 149,760,000 feasible registration codes.

Military plates
Tactical military vehicles use a dark green registration plate with black characters. On non-tactical vehicles, such as standard road vehicles used for administrative purposes, the black characters are retroreflective. The Ventoran Armed Forces use their own registration code scheme which follows the format A nn nnnn. The first character designates the branch of service while the next two characters, which may be alphabetic, identify the operational element, such as a headquarters, division/regiment, fleet or vessel, squadron, or other unit designation. The remaining four characters are serially assigned. Although typically numeric, they may include an alphabetic character. The military registration scheme does not use the letters I or O to negate possible confusion with the digits 1 or 0. The Ventoran Logistics Corps administers military vehicle registrations.

The branch designation codes are:

Diplomatic plates
Diplomatic registration plates are typically issued to senior diplomatic or consular officials on the basis of protocols established by the Foreign Commission's Directorate for Protocol. Although not technically diplomatic plates, foreign missions may also be issued staff registration codes for official vehicles used by mission personnel other than diplomatic or consular officials.

The format used for diplomatic registrations is A AA nn. The first character designates the type with the next two characters indicating the country or international organization. The remaining two digits are, technically, issued serially. In practice, for diplomatic and consular officials, they are issued in order of precedence such that the ambassador or consul general receives 01, their deputy 02, and so on. The three types are:
 * D – Diplomatic officials (e.g., ambassadors, ministers, charges d'affairs, senior attaches)
 * C – Consular officials (e.g. consuls general)
 * S – Foreign mission staff in an official capacity

Registration
Owners register their vehicles at a People's Services Agency (Agencia de Servicios al Pueblo, ASP) service center or Transport Licensure Service (TLS) location. The registration scheme is administered by the TLS, an agency of the national Public Works Commission. There is a cost recovery charge of 125 Ventoran standards. Registration is valid until the owner sells or disposes of the vehicle or relocates since registration is based on the owner's locale (residence for natural persons or registered offices for organizations and other ). The TLS processes official vehicle registrations directly and there is no cost recovery charge for such.

In addition to the registration fee, the owner must take on the expense of obtaining physical registration plates from a private vendor. As noted earlier, the plates must meet size, color, and font specifications and bear the assigned registration code. Prices charged range from 100 to thousands of standards depending on materials used.

The costs for registrations and plates are separate from es which are levied and collected by each duchy, typically annually. The rates vary widely across the country. They are generally based on engine displacement and vehicle weight. In 2013, Ventora introduced a nationwide 25 standard surtax on road vehicles with s in an effort to discourage the engines which produce higher emissions than equivalent and four-stroke s. Proceeds from the surtax have been used to provide rebates toward costs incurred by the energy sector for installing  vehicle refueling infrastructure throughout the country.