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Colorado license plate: Standard 2018

Issued today 2018 to today. 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 2018 (2018 to today), sample ABC-D12
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-L99, for example ABC-D12 (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
2018 to today. Still 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
COLORADO STANDARD ISSUE, CURRENT ARRANGEMENT. The BASE DESIGN did not change in 2018, the mountain plate dates to January 2000 and the mountain motif to 1960, so a reader must not read this series' start as a redesign date.
How numbers are issued
Not alphabetical in issuance. The DMV's own explanation, via the collector record: plates are MANUFACTURED alphabetically but ISSUED from stock, and "the most progressive numbers are often found on low-volume special plates, as they are typically issued after being manufactured rather than kept in stock". Consequence for era inference: a Colorado serial's position in the alphabet bounds its MANUFACTURE date, not its issue date. Corroboration-grade.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 42-3-201(5)(a): the SIX-CHARACTER cap, 'standardized coloring', and the personalized-plate exception; (2): displayed content and the 100-foot legibility rule https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-42.pdf
  2. Colorado DMV: all Colorado plates are printed by Colorado Correctional Industries; the Print-On-Demand programme for low-issuance plates; plate expiry on transfer under SB 21-069 https://dmv.colorado.gov/license-plates
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Colorado

Before and after

Colorado (United States) license plate, Standard 2015 (2015 to 2018) It replaced Standard 2015 2015 to 2018

This plate in your app

The series id is us-co-standard-2018. 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-2018")'
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