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Hawaii license plate: Standard

Issued today 2025 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, 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, Standard (2025 to today), sample AAA 000
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example AAA 000 (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
2025 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #111111
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
It also produces something a parse API can actually use: two visually near-identical rainbow plates whose ERA is readable from a single diacritic. THE LIMIT OF THIS ENTRY, STATED PLAINLY: the legend and the geometry are law; the SERIAL ARRANGEMENT is not, because Hawaii delegates it to a majority consent among four county finance directors that is not published. Everything format-shaped here is observed and says so.
How numbers are issued
The letter group advances; the numeral group cycles. Not published in any instrument located.

Legal basis and sources

  1. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/2024id_/https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol04_Ch0201-0257/HRS0249/HRS_0249-0009...
  2. § 249-7(b): a new series of number plates is issued 'as determined by the directors of finance of each county through majority consent', the mechanism by which a Hawaii base changes https://web.archive.org/web/2024id_/https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol04_Ch0201-0257/HRS0249/HRS_0249-0007...
  3. City and County of Honolulu, the issuing authority for Oʻahu: the standard plate illustration showing Hawaii spelled with the ʻokina; the $5.00 plate replacement and $0.50 emblem replacement fees https://www8.honolulu.gov/csd/motor-vehicle-license-plates/
  4. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Hawaii

Before and after

Hawaii (United States) license plate, Rainbow (1991 to 2025) It replaced Rainbow 1991 to 2025

This plate in your app

The series id is us-hi-standard-2025. 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-standard-2025")'
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