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Hawaii license plate: Organization index

Issued today Documented since 2026. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by The four county directors of finance (City and County of Honolulu; County of Hawaiʻi; County of Maui; County of Kauaʻi), acting under HRS chapter 249. One of 7 Hawaii license plates.

Hawaii (United States) license plate, Organization index (documented since 2026), sample FLM 857
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example FLM 857 (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 since 2026; the format is likely older than the first year documented. 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
THE HAWAII SPECIALTY INDEX, AND IT IS A DIFFERENT ANIMAL FROM THE MAINLAND ONES. Three structural facts make it so, and all three are statutory. FIRST, it is a DECAL regime: § 249-9.3 puts a graphic on the uniform plate rather than manufacturing a distinct design, so a Hawaii specialty plate carries an ordinary county serial and is not distinguishable from a standard plate by its string at all, which is precisely the case a parse API must be told about rather than left to infer. SECOND, the money goes straight to the organization, which removes the fee-trust machinery that dominates Florida's and California's programmes. THIRD, there is NO COUNT and structurally cannot be one from a single source, because four county directors each run their own register. The honest record is the absence plus the eight named statutory programmes, not an invented total.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 249-9.3: county issuance of organization plates, the fee-retention rule, the 3x3 in decal maximum, the delegated design parameters, and the four-part definition of 'Organization' https://web.archive.org/web/2024id_/https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol04_Ch0201-0257/HRS0249/HRS_0249-0009...
  2. the chapter 249 index, which lists §§ 249-9.1 through 249-9.9 as separate named special-plate authorisations (military service, county design and issuance, special series, Haleakala/Hawaii Volcanoes, Polynesian... https://web.archive.org/web/2024id_/https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol04_Ch0201-0257/HRS0249/HRS_0249-.htm
  3. City and County of Honolulu plate page, which fronts the special-plate route for Oʻahu https://www8.honolulu.gov/csd/motor-vehicle-license-plates/

This plate in your app

The series id is us-hi-organization-index. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Hawaii's series:

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