Alaska license plate: Farm
Issued today Documented since 2026. Agricultural plates for truck and van, issued by Alaska Department of Administration, Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 13 Alaska license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL999, for exampleSJH157(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2026; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Agricultural: farm vehicles/equipment where separately serialized. Issued for truck and van.
- About this plate
- FARM VEHICLE. Included because agricultural is a controlled class and because AS 28.10.181(h) is unusually specific about eligibility while being unusually vague about the plate, the statute enumerates grass seed and tree seedlings but will not commit to a numbering system. The permissive "may be issued" is worth flagging: the statute does not guarantee the plate is visually distinctive at all.
- Who can have one
- AS 28.10.181(h): a vehicle not exceeding 20,000 lb unladen total gross weight, owned by a person deriving their primary livelihood from a ranch, farm or dairy where they reside full-time, and used exclusively to transport that person's own ranch/farm/dairy or greenhouse/nursery products, "including vegetables, plants, grass seed, sod, or tree seedlings", to and from market, or supplies, commodities or equipment for use on the holding.
- Fee
- $68 initial, $0 renewal (Alaska DMV catalogue, 'Farm Vehicle').
Legal basis and sources
- AS 28.10.181(h): the 20,000 lb ceiling, the primary-livelihood and full-time-residence tests, the exclusive-use rule and the enumerated products https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title28/Chapter10/Section181.htm
- Alaska DMV: 'Farm Vehicle', $68, 'For vehicles used to transport products or supplies for farms' https://web.archive.org/web/2025id_/https://dmv.alaska.gov/vehicle-services/license-plates/
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ak-farm. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Alaska's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ak \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ak-farm")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ak/us-ak-farm.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ak/us-ak-farm/template.svg
