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Illinois license plate: Temporary

Issued today 2020 to today. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Illinois Secretary of State, Vehicle Services Department. One of 8 Illinois license plates.

Illinois (United States) license plate, Temporary (2020 to today), sample 861 KM 448
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Format, years and the law

Format
999 LL 999, for example 861 KM 448 (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
2020 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
About this plate
TEMPORARY REGISTRATION PERMIT. The pairing with Ohio is the lesson worth keeping: two neighbouring states, one legislating the temporary tag's character count to the digit and the other delegating even the colour.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 625 ILCS 5/3-407: temporary permits issued in the Secretary of State's discretion, with 'design, color and format' left to that discretion; no character grammar https://codes.findlaw.com/il/chapter-625-vehicles/il-st-sect-625-5-3-407.html
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Illinois

This plate in your app

The series id is us-il-temporary. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Illinois's series:

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