Oregon license plate: Specialty index

Issued today Documented since 2026. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services (Oregon DMV), Oregon Department of Transportation. One of 5 Oregon license plates.

Oregon (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2026), sample 741 AYT

Format, years and the law

Format
999 LLL, for example 741 AYT (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
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.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
The honest headline is a NEGATIVE result: Oregon publishes no programme count. Recording "unstated" with the reason beats importing a number from an encyclopedia, and the Special Background Fees Chart is the identified path to a real figure next pass.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Oregon DMV: the special-background structure, the two creation routes (special background plate / veteran plate) and the eligible applicant classes, the Special Background Fees Chart pointer, and Form 268 https://www.oregon.gov/odot/DMV/pages/vehicle/plates.aspx
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oregon

This plate in your app

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

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