Hawaii license plate: Special number plates
Issued today Documented since 2026. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer, 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLLLLL, for exampleCGTNAN(L is any letter)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
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- Region code notes
- An owner-chosen configuration carries no county letter, so the county name legend is the only geographic signal on a Hawaii vanity plate.
- Separators
- The ambiguity is recorded, not resolved.
- Fee
- $60 on initial application and $60 on each annual renewal, non-refundable (HRS § 249-9.1).
Legal basis and sources
- § 249-9.1: six letters and numerals maximum, one hyphen, no other punctuation, the collision and objectionability refusal rule, the $60 initial and $60 annual fees, the three-year inactivity discard, and the... https://web.archive.org/web/2024id_/https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol04_Ch0201-0257/HRS0249/HRS_0249-0009...
This plate in your app
The series id is us-hi-special-number-plates. 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-special-number-plates")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-hi/us-hi-special-number-plates.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-hi/us-hi-special-number-plates/template.svg
