Kentucky license plate: Historic
Issued today 1968 to today. Historic plates for car, 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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999, for example733(9 any digit)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 1968 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, truck, and motorcycle.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- Acts ch. 14, secs. That is what a state serving its own statutes with amendment histories buys you, and it is the concrete argument for prioritising jurisdictions whose legislatures publish, when a gate has to be sequenced.
- Who can have one
- KRS 186.043(2): "'historic vehicle' shall mean all motor vehicles twenty-five (25) years old or older, which are used primarily for exhibition in shows, parades, tours, and other special uses, but not for general transportation." A ROLLING twenty-five-year threshold plus a USE restriction, contrast Florida, which runs a FIXED 1945 cutoff for Horseless Carriage and a rolling thirty years for Antique. Kentucky's rolling threshold silently re-qualifies a new model year every January and therefore needs re-auditing in a way a fixed cutoff never does.
- How long it is valid
- Permanent. KRS 186.043(6): "The registration license and license plates of historic motor vehicles shall be valid without renewal as long as the vehicle is in existence", transferable to a new owner on application and a three-dollar fee.
Legal basis and sources
- KRS 186.043 effective June 20, 2005 (created 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 14 secs. 1 to 5 and 7): the legislative-intent subsection, the rolling 25-year definition with its use restriction, the two-plate issuance, the... https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=5928
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ky-historic. 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-historic")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ky/us-ky-historic.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ky/us-ky-historic/template.svg
