Massachusetts license plate: Specialty index
Issued today Documented since 2025. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV), a division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. One of 6 Massachusetts license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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9LLL 99, for example6BDZ 19(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
- Documented since 2025; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE MASSACHUSETTS SPECIALTY INDEX, a count, its date, and its staleness, which is the honest shape when the live catalogue will not serve. Worth carrying forward: unlike Connecticut, where the legislature authorises each program and the count is therefore statute-derivable, Massachusetts creates most programs administratively and only occasionally by statute (Cape and Islands), so the count can only ever come from an RMV artefact. That makes the RMV booklet worth capturing on a schedule, for the same reason Florida's monthly active-plate report is: it is the only structured record, and its publisher does not archive it.
Legal basis and sources
- Massachusetts RMV, Passenger Plates Booklet, July 2014, the official catalogue: the 50 typed sections counted above, the vanity-unavailable-on-PAS rule, the 33-type surviving-spouse transfer list https://web.archive.org/web/20140704083521/http://www.massrmv.com/Portals/30/docs/manuals/passenger_plates_manual_pub...
- c.90 §2: the Cape and Islands statutory design; the six-character cap on distinctive initial plates that bounds the vanity end of the program https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Chapter90/Section2
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Massachusetts
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ma-specialty-index. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Massachusetts's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ma \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ma-specialty-index")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ma/us-ma-specialty-index.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ma/us-ma-specialty-index/template.svg
