North Dakota license plate: Antique
Issued today Documented since 2025. Historic plates for car and truck, issued by North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT), Motor Vehicle Division. One of 6 North Dakota license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999999, for example620071(9 any digit)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2025; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car and truck.
- About this plate
- ANTIQUE MOTOR VEHICLES. The year-of-manufacture option is the more consequential fact for the parse layer: it means a currently valid North Dakota registration can be displayed on a plate from any past series, so a period inference drawn from plate DESIGN is unsafe for this class of vehicle.
- Who can have one
- any motor vehicle AT LEAST FORTY YEARS OLD, a ROLLING threshold, so eligibility changes silently every year and this series needs re-auditing on a cadence that a fixed-cutoff regime would not
- How long it is valid
- permanently licensed on payment of a $10.00 registration fee (§ 39-04-10.4(1))
- Restrictions
- vehicles registered under this section 'may not be used in the routine functions of a business or farming operation' (§ 39-04-10.4(1))
Legal basis and sources
This plate in your app
The series id is us-nd-antique. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of North Dakota's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-nd \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-nd-antique")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nd/us-nd-antique.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nd/us-nd-antique/template.svg
