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Alaska license plate: Specialty index

Issued today Documented since 2026. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Alaska Department of Administration, Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 13 Alaska license plates.

Alaska (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2026), sample SGV 275
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example SGV 275 (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
Documented since 2026; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
That is a direct consequence of scale: Florida has "over 100" and publishes a 27-page brochure, California publishes three category lists and no total, and Alaska publishes everything on one page. Two findings worth carrying beyond this file. First, AS 28.10.181(d) specifies COLOURS IN STATUTE for the disabled-veteran plate ('the Alaska and United States flags and red, white, and blue colors'), which is the second statutory colour specification found in the pacific group after California's Legacy statute, the pattern is that legislatures specify colour when the plate is about identity, and delegate it when the plate is about administration. Second, Alaska sets every specialty FEE by statute (AS 28.10.421), so its specialty catalogue is reconstructible from the statute book alone; fetching that section is the cheapest high-value follow-up in this file.

Legal basis and sources

  1. the Alaska DMV's complete plate catalogue: every named plate, its initial and renewal fee, its eligibility proof, the Iditarod finisher-number rule, the non-transferability of standard plates and the five... https://web.archive.org/web/2025id_/https://dmv.alaska.gov/vehicle-services/license-plates/
  2. AS 28.10.181: the statutory basis for the whole special-plate regime, including (a) the plate-with-owner default, (d) the disabled and disabled-veteran plate DESIGN requirements (the international symbol of... https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title28/Chapter10/Section181.htm
  3. the DMV sample-plate page ($10 collector samples marked SAMPLE) https://web.archive.org/web/2025id_/https://dmv.alaska.gov/vehicle-services/sample-license-plates/

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ak-specialty-index. 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-specialty-index")'
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