Arkansas license plate: Motorcycle

Issued today 2015 to today. Motorcycle plates, issued by Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA), Office of Motor Vehicle. One of 6 Arkansas license plates.

Arkansas (United States) license plate, Motorcycle (2015 to today), sample 480 RB

Format, years and the law

Format
999 LL, for example 480 RB (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
2015 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
About this plate
ARKANSAS MOTORCYCLE. Included because L2 names motorcycle as a core class and because Arkansas plainly serializes it separately, the sequence has cycled through four distinct arrangements since 1979, which is only possible on an independent numbering space. Note the contrast with Texas, where a motorcycle plate certainly exists (§ 504.943(b) makes motorcycles a one-plate class) but no arrangement could be obtained at all, so no series was minted.

Legal basis and sources

  1. the issuing authority for all Arkansas plate classes https://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/office/motor-vehicle/
  2. M CYCLE' legend, and the 1994 move to staggered registration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Arkansas

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ar-motorcycle. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Arkansas's series:

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