Indiana license plate: Standard 2013

Retired 2013 to 2017. Standard plates for car, van, and bus, issued by Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (Indiana BMV). One of 5 Indiana license plates.

Indiana (United States) license plate, Standard 2013 (2013 to 2017), sample 575RNW

Format, years and the law

Format
999LLL, for example 575RNW (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
2013 to 2017. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and bus.
About this plate
Combined with Indiana's serial-preserving 7-year replating, this means an Indiana serial carries essentially no temporal signal at all, worth stating plainly before someone builds era inference on top of it.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Indiana
  2. The same delegation governed this base; it is why neither base has a statute-grade format https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-9-motor-vehicles/in-code-sect-9-18-1-4-3.html

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-in-standard-2013. 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-standard-2013")'