Kentucky license plate: Standard 2008

Retired 2008 to 2020. Standard plates for car, van, and truck, issued by Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), Division of Motor Vehicle Licensing. One of 8 Kentucky license plates.

Kentucky (United States) license plate, Standard 2008 (2008 to 2020), sample 248 EQP

Format, years and the law

Format
999 LLL, for example 248 EQP (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2008 to 2020. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and truck.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE UNBRIDLED SPIRIT BASE, 2008 to 2020, the predecessor L2 asks for. Two things it contributes beyond completeness. That is the practical dividend of a state that serves its own law.
Separators
THIS BASE PRINTED A SEPARATED SERIAL and its successor does not.

Legal basis and sources

  1. KRS 186.240's amendment history, amended 2021 Ky. Acts ch. 53 sec. 2 (eff. June 29, 2021), 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 18 sec. 15 and 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 129 sec. 3 (both eff. January 1, 2024), 2026 Ky. Acts ch. 199 sec. 6 (eff. https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=58177
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Kentucky

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ky-standard-2008. 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-standard-2008")'