Texas license plate: Standard lone star
Retired 2009 to 2012. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV). One of 5 Texas license plates.
Lone Star Texas (2009 to 2012): the first fully digital full-colour Texas plate, and the origin of the seven-character format, retired after law enforcement disfavoured it.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LL9-L999, for exampleAB1-C234(L is any letter, 9 any digit)Seven characters as pure capacity math: after thirty-three years of six-character serials ran dry, Texas added a seventh in 2009. The mixed AB1-C234 arrangement is TxDMV's odometer, not a code, no letter or digit means anything.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2009 to 2012. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#1A1A1A - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- LONE STAR TEXAS, THE SEVEN-CHARACTER TRANSITION. This series is the reason the modern Texas format exists: TxDMV states that thirty-three years of six-character patterns ran out and the plate went to seven characters here, in 2009.
Legal basis and sources
- TxDMV 'Previous General-Issue Plate Designs, Lone Star Texas': first digital general-issue plate, first full colour and full-plate graphics, 'launched in June 2009', 'it began the seven-character plate number', the... https://www.txdmv.gov/motorists/license-plates
- § 504.005(c)-(d): the silhouette separator and the reflectorized-material requirement, which apply to this base identically https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.504.htm
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Texas
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-tx-standard-lone-star. 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-standard-lone-star")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-tx/us-tx-standard-lone-star.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-tx/us-tx-standard-lone-star/template.svg
