New Mexico license plate: Standard turquoise

Issued today 2010 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department, Motor Vehicle Division (MVD). One of 8 New Mexico license plates.

New Mexico (United States) license plate, Standard turquoise (2010 to today), sample MLK-224

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example MLK-224 (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
2010 to today. Still 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
It was introduced for the 1912 statehood centennial, kept after the centennial passed with only the slogan changed, and now runs alongside the yellow base and the chile base as an equally standard option.
How numbers are issued
A 'W' series is used on mail-order plates.

Legal basis and sources

  1. New Mexico MVD lists 'Standard Centennial License Plate' among its current standard plates, and offers a matching 'Centennial Vanity Plate' https://www.mvd.newmexico.gov/vehicles/license-plates/
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Mexico

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-nm-standard-turquoise-2010. 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-standard-turquoise-2010")'