Nebraska license plate: Specialty index

Issued today 2023 to today. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, 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, Specialty index (2023 to today), sample 390QE

Format, years and the law

Format
999LL, for example 390QE (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
2023 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
About this plate
Nebraska is the best-instrumented specialty index in group midwest-b for a reason worth generalising: the state publishes its plate types as an NLETS CODE TABLE, i.e. as operational data for other states' police systems, complete with per-type character limits. Any state that publishes an NLETS plate-type table is publishing a machine-grade specialty index, and that is a source class the remaining L2 states should be searched for by name.
About the format
The pattern shows the common assigned form the DMV writes as '123AB'.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Nebraska DMV, August 2023: the 42-row plate-type table with per-type character limits and NLETS codes; the 250-prepaid-application footnote for Organizational plates; the military branch and campaign-medal footnotes https://dmv.nebraska.gov/sites/dmv.nebraska.gov/files/doc/dvr/plates/2023_Series_Specialty_Plate_Info_NLETS_Plate_Typ...
  2. Nebraska DMV, '2023-2029 License Plates': the same programs shown as plates with their statutory hooks (§60-3,113 handicap, §60-3,118 message, §60-3,127/128 Husker, §60-3,255/256 Nebraska History) https://dmv.nebraska.gov/sites/dmv.nebraska.gov/files/doc/dvr/plates/2023_Series_Plates.pdf
  3. the DMV's license-plate index, the official entry point for the program list https://dmv.nebraska.gov/dvr/license-plates

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ne-specialty-index. 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-specialty-index")'