New Mexico license plate: Standard yucca

Issued today 1991 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 yucca (1991 to today), sample 123-ABC

Format, years and the law

Format
999-LLL, for example 123-ABC (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
1991 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #B90F0A
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
NEW MEXICO'S YELLOW BASE, THE LONGEST-RUNNING CURRENT DESIGN IN THE MOUNTAIN GROUP, and by a distance: continuously issued since late 1990 in an arrangement unchanged since early 1991, still short of exhaustion after thirty-four years.
About the format
It prints the Zia sun symbol.

Legal basis and sources

  1. New Mexico MVD lists 'Standard Red and Yellow License Plate' among its current standard plates, and states the Zia-symbol exclusion from personalized serials https://www.mvd.newmexico.gov/vehicles/license-plates/
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Mexico

This plate in your app

The series id is us-nm-standard-yucca-1991. 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-yucca-1991")'