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Kentucky license plate: Standard 2020

Issued today 2020 to today. 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 2020 (2020 to today), sample D5T354
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Format, years and the law

Format
L9L999, for example D5T354 (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
2020 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and truck.
Colours
Characters #00205B Background #FFFFFF
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
KENTUCKY STANDARD ISSUE, CURRENT BASE. WHY ONE SERIES ACROSS TWO ARRANGEMENTS: ABC123 ran until the three-letter space neared exhaustion around CBZ999 and A1B234 took over in August 2021 on the same base with the same design and the same alphabet.
How numbers are issued
reported ranges: ATF000 to AZZ999 and BCE000 to approximately CBZ999 in the three-letter arrangement; A0A000 to W1C050 as of March 2026 in the current arrangement.

Legal basis and sources

  1. KRS 186.240(1)(d) effective July 15, 2026: the registration identifier, the jurisdiction indication, the cabinet's slogan discretion ('Bluegrass State' / 'United We Stand, Divided We Fall'), the county requirement for... https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=58177
  2. KYTC: 'Standard-issue passenger plates (Bluegrass State and In God We Trust)'; the July 19, 2023 elimination of I, Q and U and the statement that this matches the visibility rules ALREADY IN PLACE FOR STANDARD PLATES https://drive.ky.gov/Vehicles/Pages/License-Plates.aspx
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Kentucky

Before and after

Kentucky (United States) license plate, Standard 2008 (2008 to 2020) It replaced Standard 2008 2008 to 2020

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ky-standard-2020. 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-2020")'
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