Nevada license plate: Standard sierra

Retired 2001 to 2017. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 10 Nevada license plates.

Nevada (United States) license plate, Standard sierra (2001 to 2017), sample 817 KJV

Format, years and the law

Format
999 LLL, for example 817 KJV (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
2001 to 2017. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE PREVIOUS BASE. Old stock issues on, recorded, not smoothed.
About the format
two arrangements again: 123 ABC from January 2001, then 12A 345 from April 2015 as the three-letter space ran out. The union is the issuing grammar for the base, so strict.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 482.270(1): 'the Director shall order the redesign and preparation of motor vehicle license plates', the power under which a base change happens at all https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-482.html
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nevada

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-nv-standard-sierra-2001. 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-standard-sierra-2001")'