Maine license plate: Chickadee
Retired 1999 to 2025. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV), Department of the Secretary of State. One of 7 Maine license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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9999 LL, for example9232 TF(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 1999 to 2025. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000 - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE CHICKADEE BASE, 26 years, two grammars, one design, and still lawfully on the road during the 2025-2026 rollout window that §451(1-A) leaves open until 31 July 2026.
Legal basis and sources
- §451(4), the design subsection that governed this base before PL 2023 c.421 replaced it for the new general issue: 'Maine' >= 3/4 in at top with the year, numbers not substantially less than 3 in, 'Vacationland'... https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/29-A/title29-Asec451.html
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Maine
- enthusiast corroboration, cited because used: the reported serial high-water marks. No text or image copied https://licenseplates.cc/ME
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-me-chickadee-1999. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Maine's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-me \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-me-chickadee-1999")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-me/us-me-chickadee-1999.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-me/us-me-chickadee-1999/template.svg
