Alaska license plate: Personalized
Issued today Documented since 2026. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, 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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LLLLLL, for examplePEIQFA(L is any letter)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2026; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- ALASKA'S VANITY PLATE IS STATUTORILY A "SPECIAL REQUEST PLATE" and its six-character cap is one of the few things in this file the statute states outright. First, the DMV's no-space footnote is a rare authority statement about PRINTED FORM rather than about content, and it means the vanity plate and the sequential plate of the same state have different separator behaviour. Second, Alaska maintains five designs that exist ONLY in personalized form, which breaks the usual assumption that a personalized plate is a variant of some sequential series.
- Fee
- $30 personalization fee on most bases ($33 on Celebrating the Arts, $50 on several cause plates), per the DMV catalogue.
Legal basis and sources
- AS 28.10.181(c) (reproduction, current through December 2007): special request plates, 'not more than six letters or numbers or combination', and the departmental disapproval discretion https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title28/Chapter10/Section181.htm
- the DMV: the no-space-in-the-middle rule, the 2 AAC 92.120 refusal standard and the recall procedure, the $30/$33/$50 personalization fees, and the five personalized-only designs 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-personalized. 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-personalized")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ak/us-ak-personalized.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ak/us-ak-personalized/template.svg
