Kentucky license plate: Dealer
Issued today 1996 to today. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), Division of Motor Vehicle Licensing. One of 8 Kentucky license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999999, for example875668(9 any digit)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 1996 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- The format is the gap, and it is the same gap as for temporaries: Kentucky regulates plate ADMINISTRATION exhaustively and plate TYPOGRAPHY not at all.
- How long it is valid
- KRS 186.070(1)(d): 'License plates issued under this section shall annually expire on December 31', a fixed calendar expiry, not the birth-month scheme that governs private plates
Legal basis and sources
- KRS 186.070 'Registration of manufacturers and dealers - Dealer's plates and stickers': one dealer plate on registration, $14.50 per additional plate with $3 retained by the clerk, the December 31 annual expiry, the... https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=51518
- 601 KAR 9:220 'Motor vehicle dealer plates': the definitions including base and supplemental plates, the sales-banded allocation table effective for the licensing period beginning January 1, 1996, the eighteen-month... https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/kar/titles/601/009/220/
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ky-dealer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Kentucky's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ky \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ky-dealer")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ky/us-ky-dealer.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ky/us-ky-dealer/template.svg
