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Virginia license plate: Standard plain

Retired Documented 2008 to 2014. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 8 Virginia license plates.

Virginia (United States) license plate, Standard plain (documented 2008 to 2014), sample WXA-3008
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-9999, for example WXA-3008 (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 2008 to 2014; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #1F3D7A Background #FFFFFF
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE PREVIOUS VIRGINIA STANDARD BASE, AND THE REASON THE BOUNDARY IS SOFT. Nothing in Virginia law marks this transition, no effective date, no instrument, no departmental notice was located. The 2014 overlap year is deliberate and is the honest shape of a rollout: old stock issues on. Verifiers should treat both endpoints as soft and should not "tighten" them without a Virginia primary.
How numbers are issued
reported as running BACKWARDS from XXP-9999 towards approximately WLN-1001, with the 'R' series reserved for rental vehicles, the same rental reservation Virginia is reported to have run from the 1973 base until the late 1990s.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 46.2-712(A): the same statutory frame governed this base, Virginia's plate law did not change across the boundary, only the Commissioner's design did https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter6/section46.2-712/
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Virginia

Before and after

Virginia (United States) license plate, Standard lovers (documented since 2014) Replaced by Standard lovers documented since 2014

This plate in your app

The series id is us-va-standard-plain-2008. 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-plain-2008")'
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