Northern Mariana Islands license plate: Specialty index

Issued today 2015 to today. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by CNMI Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Department of Public Safety. One of 4 Northern Mariana Islands license plates.

Northern Mariana Islands (United States) license plate, Specialty index (2015 to today), sample CNI 300

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example CNI 300 (L is any letter, 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
2015 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
About the format
illustrative only, this is an INDEX entry, not a spec

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2116 in full, the veteran, disabled veteran and gold star programmes, with their per-programme public-law enactment and amendment dates https://cnmilaw.org/pdf/cmc_section/T9/2116.pdf
  2. the Commonwealth Code index served by the CNMI Law Revision Commission, the section-by-section source for all of Title 9 used here, and the only reachable official enumeration https://www.cnmilaw.org/cmc.php
  3. Guam 16 GCA § 7120.3, cited as the evident source text for the CNMI gold-star provision, the common-ancestry finding recorded above https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is us-mp-specialty-index. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Northern Mariana Islands's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-mp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-mp-specialty-index")'