New Mexico license plate: Special plate index
Issued today Documented since 2026. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department, Motor Vehicle Division (MVD). One of 8 New Mexico license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL999, for exampleAWU990(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
- Colorado and Nevada have the same structural advantage; New Mexico is the one where the agency has already done the cross-referencing.
Legal basis and sources
- New Mexico MVD's plate catalogue: the category structure, the ten collegiate institutions, the per-plate NMSA 1978 citations counted above, the Amateur Radio call-letter rule and its civil-defence purpose, and the... https://www.mvd.newmexico.gov/vehicles/license-plates/
This plate in your app
The series id is us-nm-special-plate-index. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New Mexico's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-nm \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-nm-special-plate-index")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nm/us-nm-special-plate-index.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nm/us-nm-special-plate-index/template.svg
