Vermont license plate: Specialty index

Issued today Documented since 2025. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, Vermont Agency of Transportation. One of 7 Vermont license plates.

Vermont (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2025), sample SMGTHBK

Format, years and the law

Format
LLLLLLL, for example SMGTHBK (L is any letter)

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 2025; 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 VERMONT SPECIALTY INDEX, an eligibility regime rather than a catalogue, and the only one in this group with NO COUNT, recorded as unresearched rather than estimated. Two things to carry forward.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 23 V.S.A. § 304(b): the Commissioner's exclusive authority over vanity and organization plates; (b)(1) the $58 fee, the no-duplicate-initials rule and the 60-day reassignment; (b)(2)(A) the safety-organization and... https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/23/007/00304
  2. Vermont DMV form VD-017 (Special (Vanity) Plate Application): the seven-character maximum and the 6/5/4-character class caps; no more than two numbers with letters; 'O' treated as zero; no dots, dashes or symbols; the... https://dmv.vermont.gov/sites/dmv/files/documents/VD-017-Personalized_Plate.pdf
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Vermont

This plate in your app

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

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