New York license plate: Empire gold

Retired Documented 2010 to 2020. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (NYSDMV). One of 11 New York license plates.

New York (United States) license plate, Empire gold (documented 2010 to 2020), sample UXE-9443

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-9999, for example UXE-9443 (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
Documented 2010 to 2020; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #003087
About this plate
EMPIRE GOLD, THE PREVIOUS STANDARD BASE, and the reason New York needs the overlap rule.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 402(2) marked contrast, the only colour law the series answers to https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/VAT/402
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_York

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ny-empire-gold. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New York's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ny \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ny-empire-gold")'