Vermont license plate: Standard 1985

Retired 1985 to 1989. Standard plates for car, van, and bus, issued by Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, Vermont Agency of Transportation. One of 7 Vermont license plates.

Vermont (United States) license plate, Standard 1985 (1985 to 1989), sample 1U513

Format, years and the law

Format
9L999, for example 1U513 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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
1985 to 1989. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and bus.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE PREVIOUS BASE. Its 1989 endgame is the instructive part: with the space exhausted, Vermont ran two grammars at once and split them by REGISTRANT STATUS, replacements on one, new registrations on the other, before abandoning both for ABC 123 on 1 January 1990.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 304(a): the delegation under which all four of this base's grammars were chosen, the statute did not change across any of them https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/23/007/00304
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Vermont

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-vt-standard-1985. 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-standard-1985")'