Nebraska license plate: Standard county

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 county (2023 to today), sample 52-K985

Format, years and the law

Format
99-L999, for example 52-K985 (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
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
About this plate
NEBRASKA STANDARD ISSUE, COUNTY-DESIGNATION SYSTEM, 2023-2029 SERIES. Ninety of Nebraska's ninety-three counties still print a 1922 ranking on every plate, which makes this the most decode-rich standard series in group midwest-b and the reason Nebraska deserved the longest header in it.
About the format
It is emphatically not the claim that the string is a valid registration. Narrowing this to the real per-county grammar is the single highest-value follow-up for Nebraska.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Nebraska DMV, '2023-2029 License Plates': the 'Passenger (Non-alpha/numeric counties)' type 'Issued in the 90 non-alpha/numeric counties', 2 plates, citing Neb. Rev. Stat. §60-370 and §60-3,100 https://dmv.nebraska.gov/sites/dmv.nebraska.gov/files/doc/dvr/plates/2023_Series_Plates.pdf
  2. Nebraska DMV history: the 1922 origin of county prefix numbers, assignment by registered-vehicle count, Douglas 1 and Lancaster 2, and the one-year 1951 alpha county code https://dmv.nebraska.gov/dvr/history-license-plates
  3. Nebraska DMV county registration manual: the County Codes table (Chapter 12) and the dealer plate images showing the 94- prefix https://dmv.nebraska.gov/sites/dmv.nebraska.gov/files/doc/dvr/county/RegManual.pdf

Before and after

This plate in your app

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