Oregon license plate: Standard letters first

Retired 1987 to 2004. 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 letters first (1987 to 2004), sample ZVO 344

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example ZVO 344 (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
1987 to 2004. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE PREVIOUS OREGON ARRANGEMENT, ON THE SAME STATUTORY BASE. A parser needs both: an Oregon plate of unknown vintage on the fir base is either LLL 999 or 999 LLL.

Legal basis and sources

  1. ORS 803.535, the same design provision governs this series; the base did not change, only the serial arrangement https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors803.html
  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-standard-letters-first. 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-letters-first")'