New Hampshire license plate: Standard 1989

Retired 1989 to 1998. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, 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, Standard 1989 (1989 to 1998), sample EWZ 544

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example EWZ 544 (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
1989 to 1998. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #1B4D3E
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE PREVIOUS BASE. Still the design of record for several New Hampshire NON-PASSENGER classes issued today, Commercial, Disabled, Municipal Government and the older Trailer series are all reported to run "as 1989-98 passenger base".

Legal basis and sources

  1. RSA 261:75(II): the motto mandate this base satisfies with a different placement than the current one https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXI/261/261-75.htm
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Hampshire

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-nh-standard-1989. 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-standard-1989")'