# Massachusetts license plate: Specialty index

> The Massachusetts specialty index license plate: format 9LLL 99, for example 6BDZ 19, documented since 2025, car, van, truck, and motorcycle.

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Part of [Massachusetts license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--massachusetts) (6 registration series).

![Massachusetts (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2025)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ma/us-ma-specialty-index/massachusetts-license-plate-specialty-index.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `9LLL 99` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | ~2025 → today (documented from 2025; the format is likely older) |
| Class | specialty |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, motorcycle |
| Plate size | 12 × 6 in |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `us-ma-specialty-index` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--massachusetts/specialty-index) |

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_public.pdf)
- [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)

## 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.

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ma/us-ma-specialty-index.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/massachusetts?series=us-ma-specialty-index
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ma` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "us-ma-specialty-index"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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