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Oregon license plate: Standard

Issued today Documented since 2026. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, 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, Standard (documented since 2026), sample 436 PWT
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Format, years and the law

Format
999 LLL, for example 436 PWT (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
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #003976
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
OREGON STANDARD ISSUE, NUMERAL-LEADING. The reported changeover to the numeral-leading arrangement in February 2004 is encyclopedia-grade and is NOT minted into the id. THE POINT TO CARRY: in Oregon the BASE DESIGN and the SERIAL ARRANGEMENT have different lifetimes, the design is frozen by ORS 803.535 since the 1987 contest, while the arrangement flipped from letters-first to numerals-first when the letter blocks ran out.
How numbers are issued
No ODOT publication of serial ranges was located.

Legal basis and sources

  1. ORS 803.535: the 1987 contest design provision, the fully-reflectorized-safety-plate requirement, the 'distinctive number or characters ... and the word Oregon' legend rule, the size/form/arrangement delegation, and... https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors803.html
  2. Oregon DMV's own plate estate: plate-option structure, the special-background fee chart pointer, and the plate imagery the observed colours are taken from https://www.oregon.gov/odot/DMV/pages/vehicle/plates.aspx
  3. AAMVA Ed.3 §2.2/§3.3 layout and retroreflectivity, adopted voluntarily; Oregon legislates the requirement without the metric https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-U...
  4. None is asserted as sourced here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oregon

This plate in your app

The series id is us-or-standard. 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-standard")'
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