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Tennessee license plate: Standard 2024

Issued today 2024 to today. Standard plates for car, van, and truck, issued by Tennessee Department of Revenue, Vehicle Services Division. One of 6 Tennessee license plates.

Tennessee (United States) license plate, Standard 2024 (2024 to today), sample LTO 8199
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 9999, for example LTO 8199 (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
2024 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and truck.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #00205B
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
TENNESSEE STANDARD ISSUE, PLAIN OPTION. THE ROLLOUT IS UNUSUALLY SLOW BY DESIGN, and this matters for anyone reasoning about how many 2024-design plates exist. The Department is explicit that the new plate is issued for NEW REGISTRATIONS ONLY and "will not be issued upon renewal", with replacement otherwise limited to switching between the two legend options or to a lost, stolen, destroyed, mutilated or illegible plate. So the 2022 and 2024 designs will coexist on Tennessee roads for many years, parallel issuance in the §2.2 sense, made explicit by statute rather than by old stock running out.
Separators
THE SEPARATOR IS THE STATE FLAG EMBLEM. On the 2022-and-later base the gap between the letter and numeral groups is occupied by a screened flag device, not by a printed glyph. Mississippi's magnolia does exactly the same job in the same group.

Legal basis and sources

  1. TN Dept of Revenue: 'The new design will be available beginning January 1, 2024, OR upon depletion of the county's inventory of the current blue plate'; the Public Chapter 250 changes; the new design is for new... https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/additional-license-plate-information/standard-plate-...
  2. Public Chapter No. 250 (2023), the amending instrument itself https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0250.pdf
  3. the blue base's own origin, the statutory legend list, and the eight-year conditional redesign cycle https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2021/10/5/gov--lee-unveils-new-license-plate-design-picked-by-tennesseans.html
  4. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Tennessee

Before and after

Tennessee (United States) license plate, Standard 2022 (2022 to 2024) It replaced Standard 2022 2022 to 2024

This plate in your app

The series id is us-tn-standard-2024. 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-standard-2024")'
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