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Michigan license plate: Specialty index

Issued today Documented since 2026. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Michigan Department of State (Secretary of State). One of 7 Michigan license plates.

Michigan (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2026), sample GGF 6531
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 9999, for example GGF 6531 (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 2026; 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.
About this plate
The durable finding is the mechanism: Michigan gates specialty plates through the LEGISLATURE, Illinois through a 2,000-application petition, Wisconsin through 500 signatures, Ohio through individual authorising statutes, and Indiana through a dedicated code article. Whatever the catalogue counts turn out to be, those five mechanisms are the structural fact, and they predict the churn rate of each state's catalogue better than any snapshot count could.

Legal basis and sources

  1. MCL 257.811e: authorisation by public act, the purpose and nonprofit-fund requirements, the three-year-average start-up fee payable within 18 months, and the absence of any application threshold https://codes.findlaw.com/mi/chapter-257-motor-vehicles/mi-comp-laws-257-811e.html
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Michigan

This plate in your app

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

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