Wisconsin license plate: Standard 2000

Retired 2000 to 2017. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles (WisDOT DMV). One of 8 Wisconsin license plates.

Wisconsin (United States) license plate, Standard 2000 (2000 to 2017), sample 642-UMO

Format, years and the law

Format
999-LLL, for example 642-UMO (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
2000 to 2017. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
Its value is the material argument as much as the format one: because 341.12(4)(am) commences with registrations initially effective 1 July 2022, a plate from this series still in service is built to a DIFFERENT statutory material standard than a plate issued today.
How numbers are issued
observed 101-AAA to 999-ZZZ, i.e. the series ran to exhaustion of the three-letter suffix (secondary), which is the ordinary reason a US format flips

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Wisconsin
  2. Wis. Stat. 341.12(3)(a) and (4)(a): the alphabet rule and the pre-2022 reflectorization rule that governed this base https://codes.findlaw.com/wi/vehicles-ch-340-to-351/wi-st-341-12.html

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-wi-standard-2000. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Wisconsin's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-wi \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-wi-standard-2000")'