Michigan license plate: Standard 2013
Issued today 2013 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Michigan Department of State (Secretary of State). One of 7 Michigan license plates.
Every design of this plate 2
The same registration series, issued on 2 looks. Same format, same size; pick one to see it above.
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Pure Michigan (current printing) default
c. 2018 to today
PURE set apart from the swash of the M, as on E- and later D-block plates.
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Pure Michigan (first printing)
2013, c. 2018
The first printing sets PURE closer to the M; seen on earlier D-block plates (DCL, DDF, DJV, DLS, DNJ, DRY).
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL 9999, for exampleEKM 2026(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
- 2013 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#0957DD - About this plate
- Those two facts pull in opposite directions and a parse API must hold both.
- How numbers are issued
- observed DAA 0000 to approximately FAZ 9999 as of January 2026 (secondary), a three-letter block advancing over a four-digit counter
Legal basis and sources
- MCL 257.224: one plate per vehicle; plate contents (registration number, state name, expiration by tab or sticker); fully reflectorized material; 100-foot daylight legibility; the ten-year renewal bar; same-number... https://codes.findlaw.com/mi/chapter-257-motor-vehicles/mi-comp-laws-257-224.html
- legislature.mi.gov https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=MCL-257-224
- MCL 257.803b: 'Personalized plates must bear letters and numbers as the secretary of state prescribes', must be of the same material as standard plates, must not duplicate another plate, and the sequence is not... https://codes.findlaw.com/mi/chapter-257-motor-vehicles/mi-comp-laws-257-803b.html
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Michigan
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-mi-standard-2013. 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-standard-2013")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-mi/us-mi-standard-2013.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-mi/us-mi-standard-2013/template.svg
