Virginia license plate: Personalized
Issued today Documented since 2026. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 8 Virginia license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLLLLLL, for exampleNNBPICC(L is any letter)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2026; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- About this plate
- VIRGINIA PERSONALIZED. The headline is the ampersand: this is the first of two independent, officially-sourced US findings in group southeast-a of a state permitting a non-alphanumeric glyph inside a serial (North Carolina is the other, and its set is wider).
- Fee
- $10 per year plus the prescribed state plate fee; where the underlying plate is a special plate, $10 plus the special-plate fee plus the state plate fee (§ 46.2-726)
Legal basis and sources
- § 46.2-726: the Commissioner's discretion to reserve numbers/letters, the $10 fee structure, the sex-offender-registry bar, and issuance for emergency medical services vehicles https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter6/section46.2-726/
- DMV: 'Use any combination of letters, numbers and the special characters dash, space and ampersand'; the logo/ISA character-count effects; the full denial criteria; the recall power and the surrounding-material rule https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/vehicles/license-plates/personalized-policy
This plate in your app
The series id is us-va-personalized. 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-personalized")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-va/us-va-personalized.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-va/us-va-personalized/template.svg
