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Nevada license plate: Replica

Issued today 1997 to today. Standard plates for car, van, and truck, issued by Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 10 Nevada license plates.

Nevada (United States) license plate, Replica (1997 to today), sample 878 LVO
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Format, years and the law

Format
999 LLL, for example 878 LVO (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
1997 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and truck.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
That is a real claim, not an upper bound, and it is the model for how the rest of this group's undated series should eventually be fixed: Nevada's compilation prints a Source line under every section, and those lines are the primary evidence for period boundaries that this whole gate is short of. WHY THE SERIES MATTERS CONCEPTUALLY: it is a CURRENTLY ISSUED plate of a DISCONTINUED DESIGN, which breaks the assumption that design age and issue period travel together, and it sits beside a legislatively protected legacy fleet of the genuine article (§ 482.270(3), § 482.2705(3)).
Fee
the manufacturing fee prescribed by the Department, capped by § 482.266(3)(b) at $25, credited to the State Highway Fund and allocated to the Revolving Account for the Issuance of Special License Plates under § 482.1805

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 482.266 in full: the written-request procedure, the same-process-dies-and-materials manufacturing duty, the 180-day delivery deadline, the $25 fee cap and its destination, the not-a-special-plate carve-out and the... https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-482.html
  2. Nevada DMV lists 'Circa 1982 Replica' among the MAIN NEVADA PLATES, alongside Home Means Nevada, Accessible and Exempt https://dmv.nv.gov/platesmain.htm
  3. Nevada DMV: 'See Circa 1982 Replica Plates for blue plates and "county designator" plate numbers' https://dmv.nv.gov/platesnumbers.htm

This plate in your app

The series id is us-nv-replica-1982. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Nevada's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-nv \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-nv-replica-1982")'
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