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Colorado license plate: Group special index

Issued today Documented since 2023. Specialty plates for car, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Colorado Department of Revenue, Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 5 Colorado license plates.

Colorado (United States) license plate, Group special index (documented since 2023), sample LHC-Z93
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-L99, for example LHC-Z93 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
Documented since 2023; 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, truck, and motorcycle.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
Two things worth carrying forward. First, Colorado's programme is STATUTE-SHAPED in a way Florida's is not: the rulemaking route closed on 1 January 2001, so the catalogue is literally a list of sections of Title 42, and a future pass can enumerate it from the code rather than from a web page. Second, the three-thousand- signature gate plus the three-thousand-vehicle retirement threshold make Colorado's index unusually STABLE, programmes here are expensive to create and mechanically pruned, which is the opposite of the churn Florida records.
About the format
It is emphatically NOT the claim that a matching string is a valid Colorado group-special serial.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 42-3-207 in full: the pre-2001 approval cut-off, the March 2008 retirement rule and its three-thousand-vehicle threshold, the three-thousand-signature creation gate, the no-for-profit-sponsor rule, the... https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-42.pdf
  2. the Colorado DMV's own group-special catalogue, the page the count of 50 was measured from, archived 2024-01-21 https://dmv.colorado.gov/group-special-license-plates

This plate in your app

The series id is us-co-group-special-index. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Colorado's series:

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