North Carolina license plate: Personalized
Issued today Documented since 2026. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (NCDMV). One of 10 North Carolina license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLLLLLL, for exampleZJIXZUP(L is any letter)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2026; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer.
- About this plate
- Two have landed, from first-party DMV pages. The O-to-0 conversion is separately valuable and points the opposite way from every OCR heuristic in the field.
Legal basis and sources
- NCDMV: the permitted special characters (? & $ @), the automatic O-to-0 conversion, the at-least-one-letter rule, the five character-space limits, the half-space rule, the refusal criteria and the government-speech... https://www.ncdot.gov/dmv/title-registration/license-plates/Pages/default.aspx
This plate in your app
The series id is us-nc-personalized. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of North Carolina's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-nc \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-nc-personalized")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nc/us-nc-personalized.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nc/us-nc-personalized/template.svg
