Maine license plate: Specialty index
Issued today 2003 to today. Specialty plates for car, van, and truck, 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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999 LLL, for example352 QZL(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
- 2003 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, and truck.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE MAINE SPECIALTY INDEX, nine programs, a shared grammar, and a block-allocation scheme that is effectively a decode table waiting to be built. Two things worth carrying forward. Second, Maine's vanity plates are a genuinely notable adjacent fact: the legislature removed its vanity review criteria in 2015 as constitutionally doubtful, a proliferation followed, and in 2021 it directed the BMV to make new rules banning profane, violent and derogatory content, with the review committee reportedly consulting Urban Dictionary for arcane lingo. Recorded as index colour, not as a series; the vanity grammar itself (form MV-45, $25 annual fee, three ranked choices, 10-12 week delivery) was obtained but no character rule was stated on the form, so no vanity series is minted.
Legal basis and sources
- §451(5): special classes may display only their own plates; the temporary-credential alternative and the routine-technical-rules authority https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/29-A/title29-Asec451.html
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Maine
This plate in your app
The series id is us-me-specialty-index. 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-specialty-index")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-me/us-me-specialty-index.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-me/us-me-specialty-index/template.svg
