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Tennessee license plate: Specialty index

Issued today Documented since 2024. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Tennessee Department of Revenue, Vehicle Services Division. One of 6 Tennessee license plates.

Tennessee (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2024), sample 262127
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Format, years and the law

Format
999999, for example 262127 (9 any digit)

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 2024; 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
THE TENNESSEE SPECIALTY INDEX, one entry standing for the program, per §2.5. The finding worth carrying forward is institutional rather than numeric, in Tennessee the specialty program is an arts-funding instrument that happens to be attached to vehicles, the arts commission takes forty percent of it, and consequently the authoritative public catalogue lives at the arts commission rather than at the revenue department. Any future pass that goes looking for Tennessee specialty data at tn.gov/revenue alone will find the thinner half of it.
About the format
A match is a shape hit.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Public Chapter No. 250, 113th General Assembly: the 50/40/10 revenue split for new specialty earmarked plates, the one-third urban / two-thirds rural grant constraint, and the legislative-intent limits on who may... https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0250.pdf
  2. tn.gov https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/available-license-plates.html
  3. the Department's index of how to introduce a plate, plates under construction, and surrender https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/additional-license-plate-information.html
  4. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Tennessee

This plate in your app

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

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