# Kentucky license plate: Specialty index

> The Kentucky specialty index license plate: format 999999, for example 802357, documented since 2026, 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, Specialty index (documented since 2026)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ky/us-ky-specialty-index/kentucky-license-plate-specialty-index.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `999999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | ~2026 → today (documented from 2026; the format is likely older) |
| Class | specialty |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, motorcycle |
| Plate size | 12 × 6 in |
| Other sizes | 7 × 4 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-specialty-index` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--kentucky/specialty-index) |

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 and 186.166's perpetual-production guarantee](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/chapter.aspx?id=38025)

## 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.

## Use it

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

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