Nevada license plate: Special plate index

Issued today Documented since 2026. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 10 Nevada license plates.

Nevada (United States) license plate, Special plate index (documented since 2026), sample TZB467

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL999, for example TZB467 (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
Documented since 2026; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
Nevada is the most quantitatively documented specialty programme in the mountain group: the threshold, the window, both fee tiers and the per-cause allocation are all in statute or on the DMV's own pages, and the catalogue itself is a statutory range.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 482.265(3) the $35/$10 special-plate fees and the 250-application / 4-year threshold, and (4) its exclusion; § 482.2655 the 90-day emissions-failure bar; the §§ 482.3667-482.3823 range as the statutory catalogue https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-482.html
  2. Nevada DMV: 'more than 30 specialty designs', the four MAIN NEVADA PLATES and the full veteran and charitable/collegiate listings https://dmv.nv.gov/platesmain.htm
  3. Nevada DMV charitable and collegiate plates: the sequential-versus-personalized fee structure and the per-cause allocations https://dmv.nv.gov/platescharitable.htm

This plate in your app

The series id is us-nv-special-plate-index. 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-special-plate-index")'