Nebraska license plate: Standard alphanumeric

Issued today 2023 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, 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, Standard alphanumeric (2023 to today), sample OWU 370

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example OWU 370 (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
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
About this plate
NEBRASKA STANDARD ISSUE, ALPHA/NUMERIC SYSTEM, 2023-2029 SERIES. This is the series a visitor to Omaha or Lincoln actually sees, and it is the only one of Nebraska's two live systems whose arrangement is stated by an official document.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Nebraska DMV county registration manual, Chapter 9 (License Plates): the ABC 123 reservation, verbatim, 'messages containing three alpha followed by three numeric characters (ABC 123) cannot be processed, regardless... https://dmv.nebraska.gov/sites/dmv.nebraska.gov/files/doc/dvr/county/RegManual.pdf
  2. Nebraska DMV, '2023-2029 License Plates': the 'Alpha/Numeric (Douglas, Lancaster, Sarpy)' passenger type, 2 plates, citing Neb. Rev. Stat. §60-370(3)(c) and §60-3,100 https://dmv.nebraska.gov/sites/dmv.nebraska.gov/files/doc/dvr/plates/2023_Series_Plates.pdf

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ne-standard-alphanumeric-2023. 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-standard-alphanumeric-2023")'