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North Carolina license plate: Standard national state mottos

Issued today Documented since 2019. Standard plates for car, van, and truck, issued by North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (NCDMV). One of 10 North Carolina license plates.

North Carolina (United States) license plate, Standard national state mottos (documented since 2019), sample MFR-2219
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-9999, for example MFR-2219 (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 2019; 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
Characters #1F4E9C
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL/STATE MOTTOS, the third and newest statutory election, from 1 July 2019. Two details worth carrying. Second, this design pairs a NATIONAL motto with a STATE motto on the same plate, which is a different move from Florida's "In God We Trust" variant (where the state motto simply replaces the county legend) and worth distinguishing when the encyclopedia section compares them.
How numbers are issued
reported: TAA-1001 onwards from 1 July 2019, reaching approximately VFT-7102 by May 2025, with TMZ followed by VAA and VMZ to be followed by WAA.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 20-63(b) [via FindLaw; ncleg.gov 403]: 'National/State Mottos' as statutory election (iii) https://codes.findlaw.com/nc/chapter-20-motor-vehicles/nc-gen-st-sect-20-63.html
  2. NCDMV: 'National/State Motto: Includes both the United States motto (In God We Trust) and North Carolina motto (To Be Rather Than to Seem)' https://www.ncdot.gov/dmv/title-registration/license-plates/Pages/default.aspx
  3. 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-national-state-mottos. 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-national-state-mottos")'
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