Kentucky license plate: Personalized
Issued today 1977 to today. Personalized 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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LLLLLL, for exampleDNAKCL(L is any letter)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 1977 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
- Size
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12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
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Personalized 7×4 MM
personalized · 7 × 4 in (178 × 102 mm)
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- About this plate
- KENTUCKY PERSONALIZED PLATES. Acts ch. 153, sec. 3, effective January 1, 1977"), not an upper bound.
- About the format
- The six-character bound is the cabinet's, not the legislature's, and is labelled accordingly.
- Fee
- $25 personalized-plate fee to the county clerk, in addition to registration (KYTC); KRS 186.174(4)(c) sets a further $25 state fee for combining a SPECIAL plate with personalization, split $20 cabinet / $5 county clerk
Legal basis and sources
- KRS 186.174 effective January 1, 2025 (created 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 153 sec. 3, effective January 1, 1977): the definition by provenance, online application, birth-month expiry, replacement on the regular schedule, the... https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=55748
- 601 KAR 9:012 'Personalized license plates' (3 Ky.R. 186, eff. 9-1-1976; certified eff. 1-9-2026): the time-stamp first-come rule, the county-clerk issuance and inter-county forwarding procedure, the post-issuance... https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/kar/titles/601/009/012/
- KYTC: six characters for passenger and five for motorcycle, each 'in addition to a space or dash'; the July 19, 2023 elimination of I, Q and U; the $25 fee; the Personalized Plate Review Committee pre-approval and the... https://drive.ky.gov/Vehicles/Pages/License-Plates.aspx
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ky-personalized. 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-personalized")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ky/us-ky-personalized.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ky/us-ky-personalized/template.svg
