Arizona license plate: Standard 2008

Retired 2008 to 2020. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Arizona Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division (ADOT MVD). One of 5 Arizona license plates.

Arizona (United States) license plate, Standard 2008 (2008 to 2020), sample NZM2921

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL9999, for example NZM2921 (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
2008 to 2020. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE PREVIOUS ARRANGEMENT. Recorded partly for its own sake and partly because the exhaustion story is documented: contemporaneous reporting (The Arizona Republic, 30 April 2008) attributes the seventh character to ADOT running out of combinations "when it issued plate 999 ZZZ in mid-January".

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 28-2351: the design power under which this arrangement was issued https://www.azleg.gov/ars/28/02351.htm
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Arizona

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-az-standard-2008. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Arizona's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-az \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-az-standard-2008")'