Louisiana license plate: Specialty index
Issued today Documented since 2016. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV), Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Public Safety Services. One of 7 Louisiana license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999 LLL, for example585 ILP(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
- Documented since 2016; 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
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE LOUISIANA SPECIALTY INDEX. The count published here is deliberately the raw one, 187 numbered plate policies, with an explicit statement of what it counts, rather than a cleaner "roughly 150 specialty programs" that would be a guess wearing a number's clothes. The structurally interesting finding is that Louisiana, like Texas and unlike Florida, authorises specialty plates ONE STATUTE AT A TIME, so its catalogue is recoverable from edicts of government even where the agency's own viewer is unfetchable.
Legal basis and sources
- the OMV Policy Manual Section 5 index, 187 numbered plate policies from 1.00 to 205.00, each linking to its own dated PDF; the count claim https://expresslane.la.gov/omv/resources/omv-policy/vehicle-license-plate-classifications-requirements/
- Policy 45.00, the Category #1/#2/#3 tables mapping named plate types to their authorising R.S. sections, and the three-class exemption from the uniform scheme https://public.powerdms.com/ladpsc/documents/370991
- OMV: 'Louisiana offers a wide variety of specialty license plates, as well as your choice of a personalized plate'; the Specialty Plates Viewer; the Specialized Vehicle Unit contact https://expresslane.la.gov/omv/vehicles/plates/special-personalized-plates/
This plate in your app
The series id is us-la-specialty-index. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Louisiana's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-la \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-la-specialty-index")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-la/us-la-specialty-index.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-la/us-la-specialty-index/template.svg
