Delaware license plate: Standard beveled
Issued today Documented since 2008. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles (DelDOT DMV). One of 10 Delaware license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999999, for example892043(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 2008; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#C8A951 - About this plate
- Every other state in this group can be roughly dated from its base; Delaware can only be dated from its NUMBER, and only by someone holding the issuance history. This is also why the two Delaware series overlap in 2008 with distinct notes: nothing was recalled, so 1969 plates and 2008 plates are both current registrations today.
- How numbers are issued
- strictly sequential ascending; the space has NEVER been reset, which is why Delaware serials are an unusually good age proxy, a low number is an old registration or an expensive one.
- Replacement
- note: NO REPLACEMENT PROVISION LOCATED in Subchapter II. This is the pole opposite Florida's statutory 10 years.
Legal basis and sources
- 21 Del. C. § 2121: one plate per vehicle, 'the registration number assigned to the vehicle, the name of this State', 'Number plates shall be of such design, size, material and color as the Department may determine',... https://delcode.delaware.gov/title21/c021/sc02/index.html
- DelDOT DMV's own plate index - the agency-page-in-force evidence that this scheme is current https://www.dmv.de.gov/VehicleServices/tags/index.shtml
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Delaware
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-de-standard-beveled. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Delaware's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-de \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-de-standard-beveled")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-de/us-de-standard-beveled.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-de/us-de-standard-beveled/template.svg
