# Kansas license plate: Standard

> The Kansas standard license plate: format LLL 999, for example SOQ 791, documented since 2025, car, van, truck, and bus.

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Part of [Kansas license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--kansas) (4 registration series).

![Kansas (United States) license plate, Standard (documented since 2025)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ks/us-ks-standard/kansas-license-plate-standard.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LLL 999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | ~2025 → today (documented from 2025; the format is likely older) |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `us-ks-standard` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--kansas/standard) |

Sources:

- [K.S.A. 8-147(c): the three-letters-then-three-numerals arrangement, the exhaustion clause, uniformity per classification, the grouping discretion, the contrast rule and the expiration decals; (d) the full reflective coating, its $0.50 charge and the mandatory colour change on each reissue; (b) manufacture under a K.S.A. 39-1208 contract; (e) shipping to the county treasurer or, for digitally fulfilled orders, to the customer. History: L. 2025, ch. 75, § 6](https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch08/008_001_0047.html)
- [K.S.A. 8-132(a): one plate bearing the registration number, state name and year; (b) the five-year reissue cycle from 1975, the intervening decals, and the director's rules-based one-year-at-a-time extension with its three-registration-year grace; (d) 'the letters required to designate the county in which such vehicle is registered'](https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch08/008_001_0032.html)
- [AAMVA Ed.3 §1.1, the 7-10 year recommendation Kansas's nominal five sits inside and its extension mechanism can exceed](https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf)

## About this plate

KANSAS STANDARD ISSUE. Minting a dated id on an inferred five-year step would be inventing a boundary the statute expressly allows the director to move.

## Replacement

years: 5. statutory text: § 8-132(b): 'During calendar year 1975 commencing on the effective date of this act, and during every fifth calendar year thereafter, the division of vehicles shall furnish one license plate for any type of vehicle an owner registers or has the registration thereof renewed', with decals furnished in the four intervening years.. extension mechanism: THE PART THAT MAKES KANSAS DIFFERENT. § 8-132(b) continues: 'Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection, whenever, in the discretion of the director of vehicles, it is determined that the license plates currently being issued and displayed are not deteriorating to the extent that their replacement is warranted, the director may adopt rules and regulations to extend the five-year issuance cycle provided for in this subsection by one year at a time, and in the same manner the director may further extend such cycle by one year at a time, successively as the director determines appropriate.' On expiry of an extended term an owner may keep displaying the current plate 'for a period not to exceed three registration years'.

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ks/us-ks-standard.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/kansas?series=us-ks-standard
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ks` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "us-ks-standard"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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