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Virginia license plate: Dealer

Issued today Documented since 2026. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 8 Virginia license plates.

Virginia (United States) license plate, Dealer (documented since 2026), sample IBTWJNT
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLLLLLL, for example IBTWJNT (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 2026; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
About this plate
The quota rule in § 46.2-1546 is worth carrying because it is a real constraint on the SIZE of this series, a state where dealer plates are rationed by sales volume has a bounded dealer serial space, which is a fact a parse API can use. Virginia also runs a separate TRANSPORTER plate for persons delivering unladen vehicles (§ 46.2-733), which shares the one-plate/rear treatment; it is not given its own entry because no primary for its format was obtained.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 46.2-1546: dealer registration and plates, the definition of a vehicle 'in inventory', staggered issue, and the sales-volume plate quota https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter15/section46.2-1546/
  2. § 46.2-711(A): dealers and transporters are furnished ONE plate, not two https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter6/section46.2-711/
  3. § 46.2-715: dealer plates consist of one plate per set, attached to the rear https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter6/section46.2-715/

This plate in your app

The series id is us-va-dealer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Virginia's series:

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