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Vehicle Services
Vanity Tags
The Division sells vanity license plates for vehicle owners wishing to display these tags on their vehicles. Vanity plates may display a single letter or combination of letters or combination of letters and numerals not to exceed seven (7) digits in number. (Motorcycle vanity plates are restricted to five (5) in number.) If the combination includes numerals, the numbers shall be displayed to the right of all letters on the plate. No vanity plate with all numerals is authorized. Hyphens, ampersands and spaces are permitted and will count as one letter. No other punctuation marks are allowed. The Division has final approval on any vanity plate issued and any plate considered vulgar or offensive in nature will be denied or recalled if issued in error.

The fee for a vanity license plate is $40 per year in addition to the normal annual registration fee for the vehicle. The plates may be ordered at any Division facility.

The Division cannot approve any vanity plate that may conflict with any existing license plate. The following is a brief but not all-encompassing list of vanity plate rules. The large number of organizational and special license plates issued by the Division prohibits the publishing of an all-encompassing list of restrictions. Due to conflicting possibilities with existing regular license plates, the following combinations shall not be issued:

  • The letters "A, C, CL, CT, CY, D, DAV, DU, DX, F, FD, FT, HA, I, KW, MC, MCB, MCE, MCJ, MH, MIA, MP, NIA, NG, PC, PH, POW, R, RF, RM, RV, RT, S, SR, T, TC, TX, or V" followed by a number or numbers.
  • "I" followed by I's, or any other numbers.
  • "O" followed by O's or any other numbers.
  • Any combination of I's, numeral I or I's and O's.
  • Roman numerals (i.e. XIII, VI)
Last Updated: Wednesday, 19-Mar-2008 07:42:57 Eastern Daylight Time
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