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Montana license plate: Specialty index

Issued today 1989 to today. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Montana Motor Vehicle Division (MVD), Montana Department of Justice. One of 5 Montana license plates.

Montana (United States) license plate, Specialty index (1989 to today), sample 432447
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Format, years and the law

Format
999999, for example 432447 (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
1989 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
Three things worth carrying forward. First, the count is not merely unpublished; MCA 61-3-474(4) makes the list a RECORDS-REQUEST artefact by design, so the honest index value is "unstated and request-only" with the statute quoted. Second, that same statutory list carries INITIAL DISTRIBUTION DATES per programme, Montana would hand over per-programme period data on request, which no competitor has and which is worth a records request before L4. Third, the churn threshold is a hard number, 400 sets, with a stated grace period, so this index is a moving target in a precisely specified way.

Legal basis and sources

  1. MCA 61-3-474: (1)(a) departmental design of background and general format; (1)(b) corrections-department consultation on manufacture; (1)(c) the distinctive numbering requirement; (2) prior approval of names, phrases... https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0610/chapter_0030/part_0040/section_0740/0610-0030-0040-0740.html
  2. MCA 61-3-475: sponsor qualification gates, the content rules including the non-infringement requirement, the hold-harmless agreement, and the one-design-per-sponsor / four-year rule https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0610/chapter_0030/part_0040/section_0750/0610-0030-0040-0750.html
  3. MCA 61-3-472: 'Sections 61-3-472 through 61-3-481 may be cited as the "Montana Generic Specialty License Plate Act"' https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0610/chapter_0030/part_0040/section_0720/0610-0030-0040-0720.html
  4. MCA 61-3-332(8): each special plate series is separately numbered and the county number is replaced by a series-distinguishing design https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0610/chapter_0030/part_0030/section_0320/0610-0030-0030-0320.html

This plate in your app

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

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