# Virginia license plate: Standard lovers

> The Virginia standard lovers license plate: format LLL-9999, for example LYR-8840, documented since 2014, car, van, truck, and bus.

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Part of [Virginia license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--virginia) (8 registration series).

![Virginia (United States) license plate, Standard lovers (documented since 2014)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-va/us-va-standard-lovers/virginia-license-plate-standard-lovers.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LLL-9999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | ~2014 → today (documented from 2014; the format is likely older) |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus |
| Plate size | 12 × 6 in |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #1F3D7A |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `us-va-standard-lovers` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--virginia/standard-lovers) |

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 decal rule](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)

## 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."

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [Standard plain](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--virginia/standard-plain-2008) | documented 2008 to 2014 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard plain](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--virginia/standard-plain-2008) (documented 2008 to 2014)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-va/us-va-standard-lovers.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/virginia?series=us-va-standard-lovers
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-va` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "us-va-standard-lovers"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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