Maine license plate: Standard 2025 pine
Issued today 2025 to today. 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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999 LLL, for example608 HDX(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
- 2025 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- MAINE 2025 GENERAL ISSUE, PINE TREE VARIANT. The one thing the statute does NOT give is the serial grammar, which it expressly delegates (§451(4-A)(E)), the exact inverse of Florida, where the character cap is statutory and the colours are not.
- How numbers are issued
- 101 KAA upward, middle letter first
- Replacement
- statutory rule: §451(1): 'The Secretary of State shall provide a new general issue of registration plates periodically as determined by the Legislature.
Legal basis and sources
- 29-A M.R.S. §451: (1) periodic general issue distinguishable by colour; (1-A) begin no later than 1 May 2025, complete before 31 July 2026; (4-A)(A) 'Maine' >= 3/4 in at top plus year; (4-A)(B) numbers not... https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/29-A/title29-Asec451.html
- §452: display front and rear, the front-only truck tractor rule https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/29-A/title29-Asec452.html
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Maine
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-me-standard-2025-pine. 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-standard-2025-pine")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-me/us-me-standard-2025-pine.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-me/us-me-standard-2025-pine/template.svg
