Ohio license plate: Standard 2021
Issued today 2021 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (Ohio BMV), Ohio Department of Public Safety. One of 7 Ohio license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL 9999, for exampleKAB 2026(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
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#121F63 - About this plate
- OHIO STANDARD ISSUE, CURRENT BASE ("Sunrise in Ohio"). The FORMAT is on the same footing. What IS statute-grade here is only the county sticker and the display rules.
- How numbers are issued
- sequential three-letter blocks with a four-digit counter; observed range JDA 1000 -> JDZ 9999, then JRQ 1000 -> KRA 6695 as of 2025-05-23 (secondary)
Legal basis and sources
- ORC 4503.19: the county identification sticker attached to the plate; rear display; the absence of any serial grammar https://codes.findlaw.com/oh/title-xlv-motor-vehicles-aeronautics-watercraft/oh-rev-code-sect-4503-19.html
- codes.ohio.gov https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4503.19
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ohio
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-oh-standard-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-standard-2021")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-oh/us-oh-standard-2021.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-oh/us-oh-standard-2021/template.svg
