New Jersey license plate: Personalized
Issued today 2014 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJ MVC). One of 11 New Jersey license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLLLLLL, for exampleYQQORLE(L is any letter)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2014 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
- About this plate
- PERSONALISED. The five-character cap on a DEDICATED base versus seven on the standard base is a real, agency-stated asymmetry and a trap for any validator that treats personalisation as one rule per state.
- Fee
- $50 initial personalisation; $50 to reactivate a registration expired more than two years; $50 to reissue to a different owner (NJ MVC). Dedicated plates may additionally be personalised with up to FIVE characters for an initial $100 plus the annual renewal.
Legal basis and sources
- NJ MVC: 'at least three letters and a maximum of seven characters in combination of letters and numbers'; the $50 fee tiers; Form SP-2 https://www.nj.gov/mvc/vehicles/personalized.htm
- NJ MVC: dedicated plates personalisable 'with up to five characters' for an initial $100 fee plus the annual renewal, a TIGHTER cap on a specialty base than on the standard one https://www.nj.gov/mvc/vehicles/dedicated.htm
This plate in your app
The series id is us-nj-personalized. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New Jersey's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-nj \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-nj-personalized")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nj/us-nj-personalized.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nj/us-nj-personalized/template.svg
