Florida license plate: Specialty index

Format, years and the law

Format

LLL 999, for example TAX 284 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Over a hundred designs, one rule for the characters: specialty plates carry ordinary Florida serials. The artwork is the message, the serial still decodes to nothing.

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

Years issued

1995 to today. 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

2, ch. 95-282' (Laws of Florida 1995), and a History note is part of the official statute publication, so this is a statutory-creation-date claim on the FRAMEWORK the index stands for. Two things worth carrying forward. First, the count is CONTESTED: FLHSMV says over 100, Wikipedia says over 120, and the honest record is both figures with their sources, not a split. Second, the monthly active-plate report is the single most valuable structured artefact found in the whole US pass and it is NOT archived by its publisher, a monthly capture job should be scheduled before L2, because every month not captured is permanently gone.

Legal basis and sources

1. FLHSMV: 'Florida offers over 100 different specialty license plates'; the special-requirement subtype; the military-plate ordering rule; the gift-certificate program https://www.flhsmv.gov/motor-vehicles-tags-titles/personalized-specialty-license-plates/
2. Monthly Active Specialty Plates report (no historical data) + Monthly Revenue Collections report (3-year history) https://services.flhsmv.gov/specialtyplates/
3. the 27-page official catalogue and its section structure https://www.flhsmv.gov/pdf/specialtyplates/FLPB.pdf
4. § 320.08056: specialty plate authorisation, annual use fees, the (8)(a) discontinuation duty with its 3,000/4,000-registration threshold, and the History line whose first entry, 's. https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/03...