Utah License Plates

The new "Life Elevated" Ski and Arch plates are now in use.

Chad Garner reports seeing a YKX series in the 2007 Arch, which is surprising since it appears Utah doesn't issue plates with X and K next to each other. He also happened to see a BXK plate, as well as a ZXK plate. He has confirmed that these series have been issued, but other XK and KX combinations have not. So, the AKX, AXK, and BKX series in the New Ski plate weren't issued, but CKX was issued. In the New Arch plate, the ZKX series was skipped. Utah began issuing plates with X and K next to each other most likely between June and August of 2010. The BK series skipped BKX, and that series was issued in about May of 2010. The ZX series was issued just a few months later, and this series did issue ZXK.

Stickers

11 - white on green

12 - white on red

13 - white on blue

14 - black on yellow

15 - white on green

16 - white on red

17 - white on blue

Standard Passenger Plates

2007 Series - Skier

G02 8EV

This is the new version of the Ski plate with the Life Elevated slogan. Ken Reager spotted the 6th plate of this series, A00 6AA.

From Chad Garner: Apparently Utah has stopped issuing plates with any "FC" or "FK" endings. Not sure why, unless it's not supposed to be issued because it looks like a bad word. Again, I'm not sure. They did issue AFC, AFK, BFC, BFK, ZFC, and ZFK. They did not issue YFC (though I'm SURE I've seen a YFC), YFK, CFC, or CFK. I'm assuming this to be the case because Salt Lake County was issued CFH, CFJ, and CFL--without being issued CFK. I was confused as to why they would skip CFK, but this makes sense now.

Chad Garner - 12 Jan ’21

1986 Series

996 PMV

Utah is no longer using county stickers. Tony Burdett reports that county stickers still appeared on the LXx series plates, but not on the LZx series. No LYx series have been seen yet. The screened CY designation on the plates for sticker location was dropped between MGN and MMY.

On the Arch plates, the XXx series had county stickers, but none of the Wxx series have them. May 2002 seems to have been the approximate time that county stickers ended.

It appears that 999 PMV was likely the last plate of this issue.

Chad Garner - 27 Jan ’16

1996 Centennial

017 UYL

Each leading letter goes backwards (after XZZ comes WAA, then VAA, now UAA)

Chad Garner - 27 Jan ’16

2007 Series - Delicate Arch

U51 5JE

Each leading letter goes backwards, same as the original Arch plates, but the progression within the series is forward. Therefore, the first plate of the series was Z00 1AA, working forward to Z99 9ZZ, then the Y series followed starting at Y00 1AA, working forward to the current high.

Low: Z82-2AA

Chad Garner - 12 Jan ’21

In God We Trust

8M1UP

This was originally just another specialty plate on the generic base, with graphics and slogan applied with decals. As of January 2017 this is a no-fee option, with the design printed on the plate and with its own alphanumeric series. The no-fee series began with Z001A, ran up to Z999Z, and then rolled over to Y001A, and so on, with the first alpha progressing backwards. Of course, this could only go on so long before it threatened to collide with the generic specialty series, which was advancing up through the alphabet in the same format. Catastrophe was narrowly averted in April 2018 when, upon reacing N999Z, rather than going to M001A, this series rolled over to a brand-new 0A0AA format. This format progresses up through the alphabet, with no characters going backwards. We don't know what will happen after the generic specialty series hits M999Z, but we trust that God, or the DMV, has a master plan.

Chad Garner - 12 Jan ’21

Non-passenger Plates

Disabled

AF30C

Handicap plates are now issued on the new "Life Elevated" Ski base.

Chad Garner reports Handicap plate ZG68B on the 2007 Arch plate on 2015-09-17.

Johnathan Baker - 29 Nov ’14

Highway Patrol

UHP 670

UHP logo is between prefix and suffix.

Jacco Hoekstra - 18 Mar ’20

Motorcycle - Arch

V15AZ

This is the new Arch plate.

Chad Garner - 4 Oct ’20

Motorcycle - Ski

C64SA

This is the new Ski plate.

Chad Garner - 12 Nov ’18

Semi-Trailer

A538616

Life Elevated base

Martin Houle - 27 Apr ’20

Trailer

102322A

Utah trailer plates are now issued on the "Life Elevated" base with seven digits. The Ski base ends with A. The Arch base ends with Z.

Arch high - 094713Z

09657 R is the high for the original Ski base.

Willie C. Brock, Jr. - 7 Aug ’14

Specialty Plates

Medal of Honor

This is a low and a high since only one has ever been issued in Utah. The recipient was George Wahlen.

Justin Beus - 19 Feb ’10

Olympics

468T3

Olympics plates not issued after 30 June 2002.

Low: 523A4

Gunther Frostyburger - 1 Aug ’14

Specials

21BW6

All specials (antique, military, pets, wildlife, universities) share the same A000A format on this generic plate, so there is only one high for specials. The finished plates have a logo at the left and a slogan at the bottom. Handicapped and In God We Trust originally were part of this series, but both have since moved off to their own formats and series (shown elsewhere on this page). Prior to the A000A format, the original format was 0000A, with a high of 4285U. That format had to stop there, lest it collide with the still-valid 1996 Centennial Handicap series, which used the same format, with a descending alpha.

Chad Garner - 23 Nov ’20