Arkansas license plate: Specialty index
Issued today Documented since 2021. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA), Office of Motor Vehicle. One of 6 Arkansas license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL 99L, for exampleLTI 47O(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 2021; 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
- THE ARKANSAS SPECIALTY INDEX. Arkansas gives the best-structured specialty catalogue of the four states here and the worst statutory access, which is an instructive pairing: the department's WordPress content API happily hands over a complete, paginated, per-plate catalogue with a total in an HTTP header, while the Code that authorises every one of those plates sits behind a commercial subscription. The count is reported with its three caveats rather than as a round number, because 131 is an upper bound on distinct live programs and saying so costs nothing.
Legal basis and sources
- DFA's official specialty plates and placards catalogue https://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/office/motor-vehicle/specialty-plates-placards/
- the same catalogue as structured data; X-WP-Total: 131 at fetch time 2026-08-02, the count claim https://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/specialty-plates
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Arkansas
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ar-specialty-index. 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-specialty-index")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ar/us-ar-specialty-index.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ar/us-ar-specialty-index/template.svg