Texas license plate: Personalized
Issued today Documented since 2012. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV). One of 5 Texas license plates.
Sold through a private vendor under state contract, an owner-chosen message on the same seven-character frame as general issue.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLLLLLL, for exampleBIGTEX1(L is any letter)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2012; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- Colours
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Characters
#111111 - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- The Texas wrinkle is that the channel is PRIVATE: § 504.851 puts a commercial vendor between the citizen and the department for personalized and much specialty issuance, which is unusual among US states and is the reason the specialty index below points at a vendor site rather than at a government catalogue.
Legal basis and sources
- § 504.101: the department shall issue personalized plates 'including those sold by the private vendor under a contract with the department as provided by Section 504.851'; § 504.005(a): the alphanumeric pattern is... https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.504.htm
- TxDMV: myplates.com is 'the state's plate marketing vendor'; personalized messages must be approved by TxDMV; 1/3/5-year terms and the 60-day auto-cancellation; no refunds because plates are custom manufactured https://www.txdmv.gov/motorists/license-plates
This plate in your app
The series id is us-tx-personalized. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Texas's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-tx \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-tx-personalized")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-tx/us-tx-personalized.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-tx/us-tx-personalized/template.svg
