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Rhode Island license plate: Specialty index

Issued today Documented since 2023. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles, Rhode Island Department of Revenue. One of 6 Rhode Island license plates.

Rhode Island (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2023), sample EPTTKI
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLLLLL, for example EPTTKI (L is any letter)

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 2023; 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
Two things to carry forward. First, Rhode Island and Connecticut together establish that a STATUTE-DERIVED specialty count is achievable in at least some states and is strictly better than a gallery count: it is dated, versioned, PD, and countable without fetching a DMV page that 403s. Second, the character caps belong in the parse layer as a per-program constraint, a five-character Rhode Island charity string is not merely short, it is evidence of WHICH program, and with seventeen programs and two cap values that is a real, if weak, discriminator.

Legal basis and sources

  1. RI DMV's own 'Currently in Production' charity plate list: the seventeen plates, each with its enabling R.I. Gen. Laws citation, the per-program character caps, the $43.50/$33.50/$10 fee structure, the per-plate... https://dmv.ri.gov/registrations-plates-titles/license-plates/charity-plates/currently-production
  2. the chapter index from which the non-charity special-plate sections above were enumerated, including the named-individual emeritus plates https://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/TITLE31/31-3/INDEX.HTM

This plate in your app

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

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