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Louisiana license plate: Standard

Issued today 2016 to today. Standard plates for car and van, issued by Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV), Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Public Safety Services. One of 7 Louisiana license plates.

Louisiana (United States) license plate, Standard (2016 to today), sample 236 HPR
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Format, years and the law

Format
999 LLL, for example 236 HPR (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
2016 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car and van.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
LOUISIANA CURRENT ISSUE, KEYED TO THE FORMAT. Also note what Louisiana does NOT have: no replacement cycle at all, but a two-year registration period, plates that die with the owner rather than transfer, and an ad valorem tax, a combination that churns plates through transfer rather than through age.
Region code notes
NONE TODAY, BUT LOUISIANA HAD ONE AND IT WAS NOT COUNTY-BASED. Worth flagging as an L4 decode candidate precisely because troop areas are not parishes and a naive decode table would map it wrong.
How numbers are issued
The sequence therefore RUNS THROUGH the base change, so the base cannot be inferred from the serial, the same trap Oklahoma sets.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Louisiana OMV Policy 21.00, 'Personalized Prestige License Plates' (revised 2025-02-14), authority R.S. 47:462 and 47:463.2, the prohibition on vanity plates containing 'a regular plate sequence (i.e. three numbers... https://public.powerdms.com/ladpsc/documents/366665
  2. Louisiana OMV Policy 45.00, 'Uniform License Plates', authority R.S. 47:463(3) and Senate Concurrent Resolution 196, the Category #1 colour scheme: blue letters and numbers on white, 'Louisiana' in red script at top... https://public.powerdms.com/ladpsc/documents/370991
  3. Louisiana OMV Policy 38.00, 'Automobile License Plates', authority R.S. 47:463(A), eligibility for the passenger class, the two-year registration period, non-transferability between owners, and the ad valorem licence tax https://public.powerdms.com/ladpsc/documents/366583
  4. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Louisiana

Before and after

Louisiana (United States) license plate, Standard LLL999 (1993 to 2016) It replaced Standard LLL999 1993 to 2016

This plate in your app

The series id is us-la-standard. 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-standard")'
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