Arkansas license plate: Standard
Issued today 2021 to today. Standard plates for car, van, and truck, 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 exampleKCX 72U(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, and truck.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- ARKANSAS CURRENT ISSUE, SAME PLATE, NEW NUMBER SHAPE.
- Region code notes
- no geographic encoding in the serial and none reported historically; Arkansas is the plainest of the four states in this group on that axis.
- How numbers are issued
- Note this begins at AAA, i.e. the 2021 arrangement RESTARTED the alphabet rather than continuing the previous sequence, the opposite of Oklahoma, whose serials run straight through a base change.
Legal basis and sources
- the issuing authority: DFA Office of Motor Vehicle, the body that issues and administers Arkansas plates https://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/office/motor-vehicle/
- Wikipedia's own citation for the range is licenseplates.cc, a collector site. Nothing here is asserted as sourced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Arkansas
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ar-standard. 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-standard")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ar/us-ar-standard.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ar/us-ar-standard/template.svg
