Connecticut license plate: Standard 2015

Issued today 2015 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (CT DMV). One of 7 Connecticut license plates.

Connecticut (United States) license plate, Standard 2015 (2015 to today), sample WM 42390

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99999, for example WM 42390 (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 today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
How numbers are issued
AA 00001 upward; reported at BW 99865 as of 31 October 2025 (licenseplates.cc, enthusiast corroboration, cited because used)
Separators
THE PRINTED SEPARATOR IS A RAISED MIDDLE DOT (U+00B7): the plate reads AB·12345.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 14-21b(a): fully reflectorized plates for registrations issued on and after January 1, 2000; the 'Constitution State' and 'Connecticut' legends; two plates issued. § 14-18: display https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_246.htm
  2. Its own citation for the changeover is a Hartford Courant news report of 18 September 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Connecticut
  3. enthusiast corroboration, cited because used: the reported serial high-water mark BW·99865 as of 31 October 2025. No text or image copied https://www.licenseplates.cc/CT

This plate in your app

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