District of Columbia license plate: District of Columbia

Retired Documented 2013 to 2017. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles (DC DMV). One of 10 District of Columbia license plates.

District of Columbia (United States) license plate, District of Columbia (documented 2013 to 2017), sample AK-1149

Format, years and the law

Format
LL-9999, for example AK-1149 (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 2013 to 2017; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #003087

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Washington,_D.C

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-dc-district-of-columbia. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of District of Columbia's series:

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