Missouri license plate: National guard

Issued today Documented since 2025. Standard plates for car, van, and truck, issued by Missouri Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Bureau. One of 5 Missouri license plates.

Missouri (United States) license plate, National guard (documented since 2025), sample ML1N8N

Format, years and the law

Format
LL9L9L, for example ML1N8N (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 2025; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and truck.
About this plate
NATIONAL GUARD PLATES. The second of Missouri's two statutory legend displacements, given its own entry for the same §2.3 reason as the disabled-veteran plate above and recorded separately because the statute names the two independently and attaches them to different eligibility groups. Together these two are the whole of Missouri's legislated legend taxonomy, everything else in the Missouri catalogue is a design program under the specialty index below, not a statutory legend.

Legal basis and sources

  1. RSMo 301.130.1: the NATIONAL GUARD legend displacing SHOW-ME STATE for National Guard members https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=301.130

This plate in your app

The series id is us-mo-national-guard. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Missouri's series:

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