Nebraska license plate: County message
Issued today 2023 to today. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and trailer, issued by Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles (Nebraska DMV), Driver and Vehicle Records / Vehicle Title and Registration. One of 7 Nebraska license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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1-LL99, for example1-OM43(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
- 2023 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, and trailer.
- About this plate
- COUNTY MESSAGE PLATES, a nostalgia program with unusual evidentiary value. Its function is to let a Douglas, Lancaster or Sarpy resident keep the OLD county-designation look after their county converted to alpha/numeric, and because the DMV had to tell county officials exactly what those legacy serials look like, it is the one place Nebraska's county-designation grammar is written down in full.
- About the format
- The pattern shows the DOUGLAS form (prefix 1). Every Nebraska designation containing a 9 to 59 Sarpy, 94 dealer, hits this.
- Who can have one
- residents of the three alpha/numeric counties ONLY, who elect to keep 'a format prior to their alpha/numeric conversion'; the registrant must live in the county the prefix names, and must SURRENDER the plate on moving to another county
- Fee
- $40.00 regular graphic or $70.00 Husker graphic on re-application after a lapse; the message is held for one year only after delinquency, then released to the public (registration manual)
Legal basis and sources
- Nebraska DMV county registration manual, Chapter 9: the passenger and commercial County Message grammars in full, the residency and surrender rules, the shared Nebraska/Husker graphics, the $40/$70 fees and the... https://dmv.nebraska.gov/sites/dmv.nebraska.gov/files/doc/dvr/county/RegManual.pdf
- Nebraska DMV, '2023-2029 License Plates': County Message, County Message Commercial, County Message Farm and County Message Trailer types, each 'issued in lieu of regular county plates', citing §60-3,118(2)(a) https://dmv.nebraska.gov/sites/dmv.nebraska.gov/files/doc/dvr/plates/2023_Series_Plates.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ne-county-message. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Nebraska's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ne \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ne-county-message")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ne/us-ne-county-message.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ne/us-ne-county-message/template.svg
