North Dakota license plate: Specialty index

Issued today Documented since 2025. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT), Motor Vehicle Division. One of 6 North Dakota license plates.

North Dakota (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2025), sample 292 CZN

Format, years and the law

Format
999 LLL, for example 292 CZN (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 2025; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
About this plate
North Dakota is the cleanest counting case in group midwest-b because its programs are created by NUMBERED STATUTORY SECTIONS rather than by departmental discretion, so the index can be counted from an edict of government instead of from a marketing page. It is counted once here and specified once there.

Legal basis and sources

  1. NDCC §§ 39-04-10 through 39-04-10.18: the eighteen authorising sections counted above, including § 39-04-10.13's open-ended public/nonprofit organization program https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t39c04.pdf
  2. NDDOT's license-plate index page, the official entry point; publishes no count and no consolidated specialty catalogue https://www.dot.nd.gov/motor-vehicle/license-plates

This plate in your app

The series id is us-nd-specialty-index. 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-specialty-index")'