Ohio license plate: Dealer

Issued today 2021 to today. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (Ohio BMV), Ohio Department of Public Safety. One of 7 Ohio license plates.

Ohio (United States) license plate, Dealer (2021 to today), sample 302 Z2UF

Format, years and the law

Format
999 L9LL, for example 302 Z2UF (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
2021 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ohio
  2. ORC 4503.19 is the issuance frame; it carries no dealer-plate grammar https://codes.findlaw.com/oh/title-xlv-motor-vehicles-aeronautics-watercraft/oh-rev-code-sect-4503-19.html

This plate in your app

The series id is us-oh-dealer-2021. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Ohio's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-oh \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-oh-dealer-2021")'