Minnesota license plate: Specialty index
Issued today Documented since 2024. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, 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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999LLL, for example216ZTG(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
- Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
- About this plate
- Minnesota and Kansas are the two states in group midwest-b that yielded no specialty figure at all, in both cases because the issuing agency's website refused automated requests and the statutory enumeration was not completed.
Legal basis and sources
- Minn. Stat. § 168.12 subd. 2: the amateur radio plate and its eligibility and fee conditions, the worked example of a Minnesota special-plate authorization; subd. 1(c)-(d): special plates displacing the... https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/168.12
- Minn. Stat. § 168.10: the collector-vehicle plate regimes, which sit alongside the specialty programs and are specified separately above https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/168.10
This plate in your app
The series id is us-mn-specialty-index. 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-specialty-index")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-mn/us-mn-specialty-index.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-mn/us-mn-specialty-index/template.svg
