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West Virginia license plate: Specialty index

Issued today Documented since 2026. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 8 West Virginia license plates.

West Virginia (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2026), sample OPYLCSE
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLLLLLL, for example OPYLCSE (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, motorcycle, and trailer.
About this plate
THE WEST VIRGINIA SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX, and the honest report is that it is thin. West Virginia publishes galleries, not a list, and no count. Rather than borrow a number from an enthusiast site, this entry records the four official categories, the Class A scoping, the certification rule, and the ONE mechanical route to a real count that was actually observed: each programme has its own numbered DMV-54 application form, so enumerating the DMV form index yields a programme list from a first-party source. That is the L4 instruction for this state.

Legal basis and sources

  1. WV DMV: the four categories, the Class A scoping, the qualification/certification requirements, the Department of Veterans Assistance rule, and the plate-collection posters https://transportation.wv.gov/DMV/Vehicle-Services/License-Plates/Special-Plates/Pages/default.aspx
  2. transportation.wv.gov https://transportation.wv.gov/DMV/DMVFormSearch/PLATE-POSTERS.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is us-wv-specialty-index. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of West Virginia's series:

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