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.

Arkansas (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2021), sample LTI 47O

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 99L, for example LTI 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

  1. DFA's official specialty plates and placards catalogue https://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/office/motor-vehicle/specialty-plates-placards/
  2. 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
  3. 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")'