South Carolina license plate: Standard while I breathe
Retired Documented 2016 to 2025. Standard plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles (SCDMV). One of 8 South Carolina license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL 999, for exampleMCY 714(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 2016 to 2025; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- Within a single unchanged design South Carolina flipped the serial arrangement, changed the font, and readmitted a letter it had excluded for fifteen years, all in October 2023, none of it announced in the statute.
- How numbers are issued
- reported: LZD 800 to XMV 999 (letters-first, Feb 2016 - Oct 2023); then YAA 101 to YCL 750 in the letters-first shape alongside 101 AAA to approximately 999 CUU numerals-first (Oct 2023 - Dec 2025).
- Replacement
- years: 10. statutory text: the same § 56-3-1230(A) ten-year rule governed this base; South Carolina's plate law was unchanged across the boundary except for the addition of subsections (C) and (D) in 2025
Legal basis and sources
- § 56-3-1230(A)-(B): the statutory frame that governed this base unchanged, dimensions, durability, ten-year reissue, retroreflectivity, revalidation stickers https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t56c003.php
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_South_Carolina
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-sc-standard-while-i-breathe-2016. 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-standard-while-i-breathe-2016")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-sc/us-sc-standard-while-i-breathe-2016.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-sc/us-sc-standard-while-i-breathe-2016/template.svg
