Washington license plate: Standard numeric first

Retired 1987 to 2010. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL). One of 5 Washington license plates.

Washington (United States) license plate, Standard numeric first (1987 to 2010), sample 696 HSU

Format, years and the law

Format
999 LLL, for example 696 HSU (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
1987 to 2010. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE PREVIOUS WASHINGTON BASE ARRANGEMENT. Its period is the weakest data in this file and says so on its face.

Legal basis and sources

  1. the statutory frame this series was issued under is unchanged: (1)(c) state name, (1)(d) reflectorization, (1)(e) size and colour by the director https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=46.16A.200
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Washington_(state)

This plate in your app

The series id is us-wa-standard-numeric-first. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Washington's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-wa \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-wa-standard-numeric-first")'