Idaho license plate: Personalized
Issued today Documented since 2026. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Idaho Transportation Department, Division of Motor Vehicles (Idaho DMV). One of 4 Idaho license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLLLLL, for exampleOHUXHP(L is any letter)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- 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, and motorcycle.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- Who can have one
- ITD: usable on passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, motorcycles and some recreational vehicles; not all plate types can be ordered online; vehicles over 26,000 lb maximum gross vehicle weight are excluded.
- Fee
- ITD: '$25 initial Personalization Program Fee ($15 additional per registration year).' Not all plates can be personalized.
Legal basis and sources
- ITD's personalized-plate rules quoted verbatim above: the letter-O exclusion, the space-counts-as-a-character rule, the per-plate-type cap, the tastefulness and punctuation rules, the availability and re-issue rules,... https://itd.idaho.gov/dmv/registrations-plates-titles/license-plates/
- ITD's own availability checker, the service that enforces 'Must not already be in use' https://dmvonline.itd.idaho.gov/OpenServices/OpenVehicleServices/CheckPersonalizedPlates
- IDAPA 39.02.60 202.08, cited by ITD as carrying the full rule set, PINNED BUT UNREAD https://adminrules.idaho.gov/rules/current/39/390260.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is us-id-personalized. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Idaho's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-id \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-id-personalized")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-id/us-id-personalized.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-id/us-id-personalized/template.svg