Indiana license plate: Standard 2017
Issued today 2017 to today. Standard plates for car, van, and bus, issued by Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (Indiana BMV). One of 5 Indiana license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999LLL, for example117GEH(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
- 2017 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and bus.
- Replacement
- years: 7. evidence: secondary. note: 'Registrants receive new plates on a rolling 7-year basis, bearing the same number they had previously' (secondary). Two consequences if true, and both matter: Indiana sits at the BOTTOM of AAMVA's 7-10 year recommendation, and, unusually, the SERIAL SURVIVES the replacement, so an Indiana plate number does not date the plate it is printed on. A parse API must not infer era from an Indiana serial.
Legal basis and sources
- IC 9-18.1-4-3, the delegation: 'The bureau shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 regarding the size, character, display, mounting, securing, content, issuance, replacement, and life cycle of license plates, temporary... https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-9-motor-vehicles/in-code-sect-9-18-1-4-3.html
- IC 9-18.1-4-1: on registering, the bureau issues 'proof of registration for display on the vehicle', either 'a regular license plate under this article' or 'a distinctive license plate designed and issued under IC... https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-9-motor-vehicles/in-code-sect-9-18-1-4-1.html
- iga.in.gov https://iga.in.gov/laws/2025/ic/titles/9
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Indiana
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-in-standard-2017. 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-2017")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-in/us-in-standard-2017.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-in/us-in-standard-2017/template.svg
