# Kentucky license plate: Dealer

> The Kentucky dealer license plate: format 999999, for example 875668, 1996 to today, car, van, truck, and motorcycle.

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Part of [Kentucky license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--kentucky) (8 registration series).

![Kentucky (United States) license plate, Dealer (1996 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ky/us-ky-dealer/kentucky-license-plate-dealer.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `999999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | 1996 → today |
| Class | dealer |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, motorcycle |
| Plate size | 12 × 6 in |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `us-ky-dealer` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--kentucky/dealer) |

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 restriction on who may operate a dealer-plated vehicle, and revocation for misuse](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 new-dealer rule, and the good-cause additional-plate examples](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/kar/titles/601/009/220/)

## 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

## Use it

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

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