Kentucky license plate: Specialty index
Issued today Documented since 2026. Specialty 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 example802357(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
- Documented since 2026; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). 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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Specialty index 7×4 MM
specialty · 7 × 4 in (178 × 102 mm)
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- About this plate
- THE KENTUCKY SPECIALTY INDEX, one entry standing for the whole program, per §2.5. Two things worth carrying forward. First, the count is not comparable across states and this file refuses to make it look as though it were: Kentucky counts TYPES including standard issue, Alabama counts catalogue ENTRIES including personalized duplicates, Tennessee counts OPTIONAL plates. Second, KRS 186.166's perpetual-production guarantee is a real, statutory, Kentucky-specific fact about program mortality that cuts directly against the churn assumption the Florida pilot recorded, and it is exactly the kind of thing only a state that publishes its own statutes will ever tell you.
- About the format
- A match is a shape hit.
Legal basis and sources
- KYTC: 'Kentucky issues over 150 different types of passenger and motorcycle license plates', the nine-category taxonomy, and the statement that standard, motorcycle, military and special plates can all be personalized https://drive.ky.gov/Vehicles/Pages/License-Plates.aspx
- KRS Chapter 186 section index: the statutory framework for special plates at 186.041, 186.162, 186.163, 186.164, 186.165, 186.166, 186.172 and 186.1722, including 186.164's design/printing/replacement and audit duties... https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/chapter.aspx?id=38025
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ky-specialty-index. 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-specialty-index")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ky/us-ky-specialty-index.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ky/us-ky-specialty-index/template.svg
