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Virginia license plate: Specialty index

Issued today Documented since 2026. Specialty 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, Specialty index (documented since 2026), sample CJBGJOE
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLLLLLL, for example CJBGJOE (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
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
About this plate
Two things to carry forward. First, the count is EXACT and RECONCILED (340, facets summing to 340) rather than the "over 100"-style estimate every other state in this group publishes, because DMV exposes it through a faceted search rather than a brochure. Second, Virginia authorises each plate by statute, so unlike Florida, where the count is contested between the agency and Wikipedia and the programme list is a PDF, the Virginia programme list is derivable from a public-domain edict and carries its own history of repeals. If any state in the US pass deserves an L4 specialty depth pass first, it is this one.

Legal basis and sources

  1. DMV's Search/View Specialized License Plates service: the 340 total and the four facet counts (137/96/64/43) https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/vehicles/license-plates/search
  2. Code of Virginia Title 46.2 Chapter 6 table of contents: Article 10 'Special License Plates' with a section per programme, and the Repealed/Expired markers that make programme churn readable https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter6/
  3. § 46.2-725: special license plates, generally, the frame the per-programme sections hang off https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter6/section46.2-725/

This plate in your app

The series id is us-va-specialty-index. 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-specialty-index")'
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