# Vermont license plate: Specialty index

> The Vermont specialty index license plate: format LLLLLLL, for example SMGTHBK, documented since 2025, car, van, truck, and motorcycle.

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Part of [Vermont license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--vermont) (7 registration series).

![Vermont (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2025)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-vt/us-vt-specialty-index/vermont-license-plate-specialty-index.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LLLLLLL` (L is any letter) |
| Years | ~2025 → today (documented from 2025; the format is likely older) |
| Class | specialty |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, motorcycle |
| Plate size | 12 × 6 in |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `us-vt-specialty-index` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--vermont/specialty-index) |

Sources:

- [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 service-organization definitions with their 100-member and 501(c)(3)/(10) tests; (b)(2)(B) the $21 fee, the one-design-per-organization cap, the trademark/copyright warranty, and the vehicle-identification design principle](https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/23/007/00304)
- [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 I/J/O single-letter exclusion; the asterisk spacing convention; the do-not-resemble-a-regular-issue rule; and the content-refusal criteria including the mirror-image clause](https://dmv.vermont.gov/sites/dmv/files/documents/VD-017-Personalized_Plate.pdf)
- [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Vermont)

## 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.

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-vt/us-vt-specialty-index.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/vermont?series=us-vt-specialty-index
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-vt` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "us-vt-specialty-index"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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