Alabama license plate: Standard 2022
Issued today 2022 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and motorhome, issued by Alabama Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division (ALDOR MVD). One of 5 Alabama license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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9L9999L, for example8M9031B(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2022 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and motorhome.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000 - Size
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12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
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Standard 2022 7×4 MM
standard · 7 × 4 in (178 × 102 mm)
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- About this plate
- ALABAMA STANDARD ISSUE, CURRENT BASE. WHY ONE SERIES AND NOT EIGHT: Alabama's eight reported arrangements are all seven characters, all county-prefixed, and all on one physical base.
- How numbers are issued
- Each progresses 0 to 9, then A to Y, from right to left." An odometer-style mixed-radix progression rather than a letter-block scheme, which, if true, is why Alabama shows eight different-looking arrangements inside ONE series rather than eight series.
Legal basis and sources
- ALDOR 'License Plate Design Specifications', April 8 2021: 6x12 in passenger / 4x7 in motorcycle; the 5.44x11.44 in design rectangle and .28 in margin; 0.3125 in bolt holes; the 2.875x8.75 in graphics-free serial... https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/License-Plate-Design-Specifications-040821.pdf
- Alabama Department of Archives and History, 'Alabama Automobile Tags Numerical by County': 'Alabama license plates first featured county codes in 1941. As of 2008, these codes continued to be used on passenger and... https://web.archive.org/web/20090430071153/http://www.archives.alabama.gov/auto-tags.html
- ALDOR's own plate catalogue: the Standard Passenger entry, its eligibility ('Private passenger automobiles, motorcycles, pickup trucks (not exceeding 12,000 pounds), motor homes of any weight'), and its code-section... https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/license-plates/
- None is asserted as sourced here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Alabama
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-al-standard-2022. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Alabama's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-al \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-al-standard-2022")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-al/us-al-standard-2022.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-al/us-al-standard-2022/template.svg
