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South Carolina license plate: Dealer

Issued today Documented since 2026. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles (SCDMV). One of 8 South Carolina license plates.

South Carolina (United States) license plate, Dealer (documented since 2026), sample ZBDFLKM
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLLLLLL, for example ZBDFLKM (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 2026; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
About this plate
South Carolina is the most tightly drafted dealer-plate regime in this group: it gates issuance on a sales floor, rations plate counts by volume, times the two permitted third-party uses to the day, and closes two specific gaming routes by name.
Fee
$20 per dealer plate (§ 56-3-2320(A)(3))
Permitted use
exclusively on vehicles owned by, assigned to, or loaned for TEST DRIVING to the dealer, when operated by the dealer, its corporate officers, its employees, a prospective purchaser, or a person whose vehicle is being serviced or repaired by the dealer. A prospective purchaser is limited to SEVEN DAYS with a dated demonstration certificate approved by the department; a service-loaner user to THIRTY DAYS, and only where the loaner is part of a manufacturer programme provided at no charge. Dealer plates must NOT be used on wreckers or service vehicles, nor on dealer-owned vehicles leased or rented to the public. (§ 56-3-2320)

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 56-3-2320: dealer plate issuance, the twenty-sale eligibility floor and retail-licence proof, the sales-volume quota and manufacturer-programme uplift, the seven-day demonstration and thirty-day service-loaner... https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t56c003.php

This plate in your app

The series id is us-sc-dealer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of South Carolina's series:

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