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Indiana license plate: Specialty index

Issued today Documented since 2026. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (Indiana BMV). One of 5 Indiana license plates.

Indiana (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2026), sample 585XVI
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Format, years and the law

Format
999LLL, for example 585XVI (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.
About this plate
The structural finding is that Indiana routes optional plates through a dedicated CODE ARTICLE (IC 9-18.5) rather than through per-plate statutes as Ohio does or through a petition threshold as Illinois and Wisconsin do. That article is the right place to count from once iga.in.gov is reachable, and counting from an edict beats counting from a brochure.

Legal basis and sources

  1. IC 9-18.1-4-1: the regular-plate / IC 9-18.5 distinctive-plate fork https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-9-motor-vehicles/in-code-sect-9-18-1-4-1.html
  2. IC 9-18.5-1-1: the scope of the special-group-recognition chapter https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-9-motor-vehicles/in-code-sect-9-18-5-1-1.html
  3. in.gov https://www.in.gov/bmv/

This plate in your app

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

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