North Carolina license plate: Standard first in freedom
Issued today Documented since 2015. Standard plates for car, van, and truck, 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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LLL-9999, for exampleXEZ-4835(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 2015; 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, and truck.
- Colours
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Characters
#1F4E9C - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- NORTH CAROLINA FIRST IN FREEDOM, the second statutory election, added 1 July 2015. The instructive contrast with its sibling is the SOURCING ASYMMETRY inside a single statutory subsection: § 20-63(b) describes the First in Flight plate's background in law and says nothing at all about this one's. Note also the revived slogan: "FIRST IN FREEDOM" was North Carolina's plate slogan on the 1975-78 base, retired, and brought back forty years later as an optional design.
Legal basis and sources
- § 20-63(b) [via FindLaw; ncleg.gov 403]: 'First in Freedom' as statutory election (ii), and the absence of any statutory description of its artwork https://codes.findlaw.com/nc/chapter-20-motor-vehicles/nc-gen-st-sect-20-63.html
- NCDMV: 'First in Freedom: Recognizes two important North Carolina milestones in the American Revolution' https://www.ncdot.gov/dmv/title-registration/license-plates/Pages/default.aspx
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_North_Carolina
This plate in your app
The series id is us-nc-standard-first-in-freedom. 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-standard-first-in-freedom")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nc/us-nc-standard-first-in-freedom.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nc/us-nc-standard-first-in-freedom/template.svg
