Florida license plate: Personalized

Issued today 1972 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV). One of 10 Florida license plates.

Florida (United States) license plate, Personalized (1972 to today), sample MOOQMKY

Format, years and the law

Format
LLLLLLL, for example MOOQMKY (L is any letter)

Owner-composed within seven characters, so the letters mean whatever was paid for. The one statutory extra: the personalized statute alone allows a hyphen.

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
1972 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #006747 Background #FFFFFF
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
PERSONALIZED PLATES. The L0 pass had shipped the 2025 statute-edition year.
Fee
$15 additional annual fee per personalized plate; HSMV form 83043 completed and presented at a local office

Legal basis and sources

  1. leg.state.fl.us https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/03...
  2. personalized plates ordered in person, $15 annual fee, HSMV form 83043, the Personalized License Plate Inquiry availability service https://www.flhsmv.gov/motor-vehicles-tags-titles/personalized-specialty-license-plates/
  3. § 320.06(3)(a): the seven-character cap and alphabet a personalized configuration must fit https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/03...
  4. 'Note: Standard license plates listed above can be ordered as personalized.' https://www.flhsmv.gov/pdf/specialtyplates/FLPB.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is us-fl-personalized. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Florida's series:

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