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Connecticut license plate: Specialty index

Issued today Documented since 2015. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (CT DMV). One of 7 Connecticut license plates.

Connecticut (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2015), sample VM 85868
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99999, for example VM 85868 (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 2015; 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 CONNECTICUT SPECIALTY INDEX, and the best-sourced specialty index this group produced, because Connecticut's legislature does the authorising itself. Two things worth carrying forward. First, a statute-countable program list is a genuinely better artefact than a DMV gallery: it is dated, versioned, PD as an edict of government, and it cannot silently drift.

Legal basis and sources

  1. the chapter table of contents and section texts: the thirteen 'commemorative number plates' sections counted above; § 14-19a the regulation-made organizational and collegiate route including the discontinuance duty; §... https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_246.htm

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ct-specialty-index. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Connecticut's series:

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