Minnesota license plate: Collector
Issued today Documented since 2024. Historic plates for car and truck, issued by Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Driver and Vehicle Services (DVS). One of 4 Minnesota license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL999, for exampleJBG761(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2024; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car and truck.
- About this plate
- Here only the inscription word differs. THE FACT WORTH CARRYING FORWARD is the interaction of two provisions: these plates bear NO DATE and are valid FOREVER without renewal. A Minnesota collector plate therefore carries no temporal information whatsoever, cannot be aged from its own face, and may have been issued at any point since the regime began, which, together with the year-of-manufacture regimes in North Dakota and Kansas, means every state in this group has at least one class of plate that defeats era inference.
- How long it is valid
- PERMANENT AND UNRENEWED: 'The number plate is valid without renewal as long as the vehicle is in existence in Minnesota' (§ 168.10, repeated for each sub-regime). The commissioner may revoke for failure to comply with the subdivision.
Legal basis and sources
- Minn. Stat. § 168.10: the 'Pioneer', 'Classic Car', 'Collector' and 'Street Rod' inscriptions, each with 'Minnesota' and the registration number or a § 168.12 subd. 2a character combination but NO DATE; single-plate... https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/168.10
- revisor.mn.gov https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/168.12
This plate in your app
The series id is us-mn-collector. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Minnesota's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-mn \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-mn-collector")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-mn/us-mn-collector.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-mn/us-mn-collector/template.svg
