Virginia license plate: Standard lovers
Issued today Documented since 2014. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 8 Virginia license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL-9999, for exampleLYR-8840(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2014; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#1F3D7ABackground#FFFFFF - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- VIRGINIA CURRENT STANDARD ISSUE. Virginia is the clearest case in this group of a state whose plate facts simply are not in its law: the Code fixes the CONTENTS of a plate and hands everything else, size, colours, serial arrangement, replacement, slogan, to the Commissioner, and the Commissioner does not publish a specification.
- How numbers are issued
- Reported serial progression on this base: forward through the 'V' series from VAA-1001 to VZZ-9950, then BACKWARDS from UZZ-9950 through the 'U', 'T' and now 'S' series. Backwards progression is not a mistake in the record, Virginia has run serials in reverse before, on the 1993 base, reportedly to avoid colliding with an optional plate progressing forwards.
- Replacement
- note: VIRGINIA LEGISLATES NO REPLACEMENT CYCLE. Nothing in §§ 46.2-711 to 46.2-716 mandates periodic replacement, and § 46.2-714 goes the other way, authorising PERMANENT plates at the Department's discretion. This is a real state-level fact, not a gap: the answer to "how often does Virginia reissue?" is "the statute does not say, and it expressly contemplates plates that are never replaced."
Legal basis and sources
- § 46.2-712(A): what the plate must display (registration number, name of the Commonwealth, year or month-and-year); the discretion clause that leaves size, letters, numerals and ALL colour to the Commissioner; the... https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter6/section46.2-712/
- § 46.2-711(A): two plates for this class of vehicle https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter6/section46.2-711/
- None of it is asserted as sourced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Virginia
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-va-standard-lovers. 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-standard-lovers")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-va/us-va-standard-lovers.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-va/us-va-standard-lovers/template.svg
