New York license plate: Excelsior
Issued today Documented since 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL-9999, for exampleABC-1234(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 since 2020; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#003261 - About this plate
- PARALLEL ISSUANCE IS REAL HERE: New York has no replacement cycle, so Empire Gold plates from 2010 remain lawfully on the road indefinitely alongside Excelsior plates, which is why the two series overlap at 2020 and why this note and the Empire Gold note differ.
- Replacement
- note: NEW YORK LEGISLATES NO REPLACEMENT CYCLE. Neither VAT § 401 nor § 402 states a plate age limit or a reissuance duty. NYSDMV runs a 'Peeling and Damaged License Plates' remedy instead, i.e. condition-triggered rather than age-triggered. This is the opposite pole from Florida's statutory 10 years and from Pennsylvania's statutory reissuance PROGRAM.
Legal basis and sources
- NYSDMV: 'DMV now offers Excelsior license plates featuring New York State landmarks', the official evidence that this design is the current offering (agency-page-in-force) https://dmv.ny.gov/plates
- § 401(3)(a): the distinctive number, two plates, reflectorized material to the commissioner's specifications, the whole of New York's statutory design law https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/VAT/401
- nysenate.gov https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/VAT/402
- None of the three is asserted as sourced. 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-excelsior. 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-excelsior")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ny/us-ny-excelsior.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ny/us-ny-excelsior/template.svg
