Nebraska license plate: Message

Issued today 2023 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, trailer, and motorcycle, issued by Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles (Nebraska DMV), Driver and Vehicle Records / Vehicle Title and Registration. One of 7 Nebraska license plates.

Nebraska (United States) license plate, Message (2023 to today), sample SKCNJZW

Format, years and the law

Format
LLLLLLL, for example SKCNJZW (L is any letter)

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
Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, trailer, and motorcycle.
About this plate
MESSAGE PLATES (Nebraska's term for personalized). The interesting fact is the NEGATIVE constraint: Nebraska forbids any message shaped like its own standard alpha/numeric series, state-wide and independent of spacing.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Nebraska DMV county registration manual, Chapter 9: the seven-character cap and its six-character motorcycle/autocycle and five-character Gold Star Family exceptions, the eight-position/one-space rule, the... https://dmv.nebraska.gov/sites/dmv.nebraska.gov/files/doc/dvr/county/RegManual.pdf
  2. Nebraska DMV, '2023 Series Specialty Plates / NLETS Plate Type Codes', August 2023: Message = 'Up to 7 characters selected by applicant', NLETS code PE https://dmv.nebraska.gov/sites/dmv.nebraska.gov/files/doc/dvr/plates/2023_Series_Specialty_Plate_Info_NLETS_Plate_Typ...

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ne-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-message")'