New Hampshire license plate: Specialty index

Issued today 2017 to today. Specialty plates for car, van, and truck, issued by New Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles, a division of the New Hampshire Department of Safety. One of 7 New Hampshire license plates.

New Hampshire (United States) license plate, Specialty index (2017 to today), sample P2897

Format, years and the law

Format
L9999, for example P2897 (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
2017 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, and truck.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
The index entries in this group therefore say what they are counting, every time, and no cross-state total is offered.

Legal basis and sources

  1. NH DMV's own Decal Plates page: RSA 261-B and the 3 July 2017 start; the 3in x 3in blank square; decals sold by the organizations and not by the DMV; the fifteen approved organizations by name; the $15/$40/$8 fees;... https://www.dmv.nh.gov/vehicles-boats-or-titles/vehicle-registrations/decal-plates
  2. RSA 261:75(II): the director's design authority under which a plate type with a blank decal field can exist at all https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXI/261/261-75.htm
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Hampshire

This plate in your app

The series id is us-nh-specialty-index. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New Hampshire's series:

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