Arizona license plate: Standard 2021
Issued today 2021 to today. 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL 9LL, for exampleDKA 5RW(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
- 2021 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#1E4A44 - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- ARIZONA STANDARD ISSUE, CURRENT GENERATION. THE BASE DESIGN IS OLDER THAN THE SERIES: the desert scene dates to 1996 (flat-printed from January 2008), and 2021 is a SERIAL-GRAMMAR boundary, not a redesign. WHY THIS SERIES IS INTERESTING BEYOND ARIZONA: it is the cleanest US example of a state exhausting its serial space and answering with an alphabet change rather than a redesign, 999 ZZZ ran out in mid-January 2008, ABC1234 ran out by April 2020, and the answer both times was more characters or a wider alphabet on the SAME plate.
- How numbers are issued
- NOT LEXICOGRAPHIC. Consequence for the parse API: an Arizona serial's alphabetical position tells you almost nothing about its issue date, and any era inference built on ordinary odometer logic will be wrong.
Legal basis and sources
- § 28-2351: the absence of any statutory serial constraint, the director's design power, the reflective coating, the contrast rule and the sans-serif state-name height https://www.azleg.gov/ars/28/02351.htm
- ADOT's own June 2020 announcement of the new plate-numbering system. https://azdot.gov/adot-news/your-eyes-don%E2%80%99t-deceive-you-new-license-plate-numbers-are-different
- 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-2021. 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-2021")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-az/us-az-standard-2021.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-az/us-az-standard-2021/template.svg
