Colorado license plate: Standard 2015

Retired 2015 to 2018. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Colorado Department of Revenue, Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 5 Colorado license plates.

Colorado (United States) license plate, Standard 2015 (2015 to 2018), sample ABC-123

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example ABC-123 (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 2018. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #0C3D30
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
Recorded because it bears directly on the parse API's era inference.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 42-3-201(5)(a): the six-character cap this arrangement also sits at https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-42.pdf
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Colorado

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-co-standard-2015. 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-standard-2015")'