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Ohio license plate: Specialty index

Issued today Documented since 2026. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, 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, Specialty index (documented since 2026), sample GNF 3470
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 9999, for example GNF 3470 (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 2026; 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
The count is a declared gap. The finding worth carrying forward is STRUCTURAL rather than numeric: Ohio does not have a generic specialty-plate mechanism with a petition threshold the way Illinois and Wisconsin do; it authorises plates individually in statute. That makes the Ohio catalogue enumerable from a public-domain edict rather than from an agency page, a better long-run source than any brochure, and one that also explains why the amateur-radio call-sign plate (ORC 4503.14) is a SPECIALTY plate whose serial is not assigned by the state at all but by the FCC. That is a genuinely unusual serial provenance and the only Ohio plate whose characters are governed by federal allocation.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ohio
  2. ORC 4503.14 is a worked example of the per-plate statutory pattern: it authorises plates bearing 'the official call letters of the applicant as assigned by the federal communications commission' for licensed... https://codes.findlaw.com/oh/title-xlv-motor-vehicles-aeronautics-watercraft/oh-rev-code-sect-4503-14.html

This plate in your app

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