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Maryland license plate: Specialty index

Issued today 2016 to today. Specialty plates for car, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration (MDOT MVA). One of 7 Maryland license plates.

Maryland (United States) license plate, Specialty index (2016 to today), sample 5VE7951
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Format, years and the law

Format
9LL9999, for example 5VE7951 (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
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, truck, and motorcycle.
About this plate
THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX, STATUTE-ONLY, BY NECESSITY. Maryland is the inverse of Delaware: Delaware publishes a complete list and no statutory threshold in plain sight, Maryland publishes a precise statutory threshold and a catalogue nobody outside can read. Recording the 25-owner bar and an explicit null count is the honest output, and the 403 is the named, fixable obstacle.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Md. Code, Transp. § 13-619: the nonprofit-organisation special plate, the 25-owner threshold per class, the eligible vehicle classes, the letters/numerals/emblem design latitude, cost-recovery-only fees, the National... https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gtr&section=13-619&enactments=false
  2. § 13-410(c)(6): county stickers may not be placed on special or commemorative plates; § 13-410(f): reflectorized plates may be issued under §§ 13-618 and 13-619 https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gtr&section=13-410&enactments=false

This plate in your app

The series id is us-md-specialty-index. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Maryland's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-md \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-md-specialty-index")'
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