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Vermont License Plates

Vermont license plates are issued in pairs for most types, front plate display required. Renewal date stickers not issued after November 1, 2023. Previously black on white for many years.

Letters I, J, O, Q, U, V, Z generally not used on regular issue plates in recent memory. Letters U, V, and Z activated for normal use and started appearing in late-2023 while I, J, O and Q continue to be omitted.

Current Series

Passenger new

KZP 240

Breylen Johnson - Apr 12 ’26

This regular format passenger design first appeared in 1985. Plates were initially limited to five characters with chunky dies in the formats of 1A234, 123A4, 1AB23 and 12AB3. Format expanded to six narrower characters in the AAA 001 format during 1990, see History tab for newer details.

While omitted in the past, letters U, V and Z were activated for general use in late-2023 as confirmed by example observations KPZ 451 and KPV series. Only one other combination using V had been reported much earlier. Letters I, J, O, Q are still omitted.

Specialty Plates

Military and Veteran Plates

War Veteran

46937

Darren Skidmore - Jul 16 ’25

The numeric issue is for war Vets, and they have a large sticker denoting which war they were a part of.

There is also a Handicap Vet plate available. See Non-Pass section.

Skipper reports Veteran T/R/K 48145 2015-07-26

It appears Passenger is in the 43000 and 44000 block, but Truck is in the 47000 block.

Skipper reports seeing non-trk 47000, which was an error plate. It did not have the T/R/K legend, nor was it on a truck.

Veteran Motorcycle: V1247 (American flag to left of number.)

Retired Series

Lake Champlain

398

Skipper Horner - Aug 2 ’14

Limited edition set of 400, originally "issued" via charity auction in 2009 to support the lake's 400th anniversary of discovery. Later, remaining non-auctioned plates went up for general sale to the public at a cost of $20. This was a single front plate that could only be displayed on car until 6/30/2010.