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2. Vehicle license plates of the United States - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, vehicle registration plates, known as license plates, are issued by a department of motor vehicles, an agency of the state or territorial government, or in the case of the District of Columbia, the district government. [1] Some Native American tribes also issue plates. [2] The U.S. federal government issues plates only for its own vehicle fleet and for vehicles owned by ...

3. United States license plate designs and serial formats

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   License plate numbers are usually assigned in ascending order, beginning with a starting point such as AAA-001. Thus, an observer familiar with the sequence can determine roughly when the plate was issued. In a few cases, numbers have been assigned in descending order. For example, when Virginia switched to seven characters for its standard issue in 1993, numbers beginning with AAA-1000 were ...

4. Vehicle registration plate - Wikipedia

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   A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate ( British, Indian and Australian English) or license plate ( American English) or licence plate ( Canadian English ), is a metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identification purposes. All countries require registration plates for road vehicles such as cars, trucks, and motorcycles. Whether they ...

5. Vanity plate - Wikipedia

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   In 2007, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) and Stefan Lonce, author of License to Roam: Vanity License Plates and the Stories They Tell, conducted North America's first state by state and province by province survey of vanity plates, revealing that there are 9.7 million vehicles with personalized vanity license plates. The survey ranked jurisdictions by "vanity ...

6. Automatic number-plate recognition - Wikipedia

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   Automatic number-plate recognition ( ANPR; see also other names below) is a technology that uses optical character recognition on images to read vehicle registration plates to create vehicle location data. It can use existing closed-circuit television, road-rule enforcement cameras, or cameras specifically designed for the task. ANPR is used by police forces around the world for law ...

7. Vehicle registration plates of Nebraska - Wikipedia

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   The U.S. state of Nebraska first required its residents to register their motor vehicles in 1905. Registrants provided their own license plates for display until 1915, when the state began to issue plates. [1] As of 2023, plates are issued by the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Front and rear plates are required for most classes of ...