The state of Montana requires drivers to register their motor vehicles with the Montana Department of Justice Motor Vehicles Division. Before you can choose from one of many of the Montana license plates available, you must first undergo registration for your vehicle and pay all the necessary fees. 

Standard Montana license plates are issued to all owners unless they request other license plates. Montana law requires new plates to be issued every five years. Vehicle owners who want to use new Montana license plates can request them after surrendering their old plates after paying a $10 new issue fee, a $10 replacement plate fee for a new license number or $15 duplicate plate fee for the same number, and a $10 duplicate permanent tab.

There are many sponsored plates representing different groups that you can choose from, including those supporting Agriculture and Forestry, Arts and Culture, Government, Collegiate, Education, Youth Groups, Service Organizations and Associations, Museums and History, Parks and Environment, Wildlife and Other Animals, and Sports

To qualify for these sponsored plates, you have to register your vehicle annually. A portion of the fees goes towards the sponsoring organization.

To qualify for military Montana license plates, you must be an active member of the military, veteran, or the surviving spouse of a veteran who has not remarried. There are a total 17 differently labeled plates, and all with the exception of ex-Prisoner of War and Disabled Veteran cost $10 year.

To apply for military Montana license plates, you must have an official certificate from your unit commander proving your eligibility for the plates. You must also submit all applicable fees and documents to prove eligibility.

All motor vehicles registered in Utah have to display license plates, which drivers receive after registering for the first time at the Utah Division of Motor Vehicles. Cars and trucks receive two Utah license plates for the front and rear of the automobile. However, motorcycles and trailers only receive one license plate. In order to receive replacement plates, you can bring registration card and pay $10 to get new plates. 

Standard Utah License Plates

Utah has over 30 different license plates to choose from, excluding disabled plates, personalized plates, historic plates, and exempt plates. The standard Utah license plates come in two different styles, one with Utah's red rock geography and another with snow.

Special-interest Utah License Plates

There are more than 20 special-interest Utah license plates available to Utah drivers. Many of them have varying fees and requirements depending on the style. Some of them may also be personalized while others cannot. 

Personalized Utah License Plates

For personalized Utah license plates, you can select a message of up to seven characters on a standard Utah license plate or five on a specialty plate. The Division of Motor Vehicles has guidelines about what your message can be and does not allow profane or obscene messages. After paying a fee of $55 (depends on the style) and $3 for mailing and submitting Form TC-817, the Application for Personalized Plates, you will receive your plates through the mail after approval. The Division of Motor Vehicles provides a helpful online service where you can pick a plate style and try out different license plates numbers to see if they are available. If you need legal advice and assistance, contact Utah lawyers.

When you buy your first motor vehicle as a resident of Iowa, you will receive two Iowa license plates after paying your registration fees. Your Iowa license plates will show a unique plate number. Iowa license plates follow the driver rather than the car. For example, if you decide to sell your car and buy a replacement once within 30 days, you may use old Iowa license plates on your new car once after paying the necessary registration fees. If your Iowa license plates are damaged lost, you may obtain replacement Iowa license plates at your local county treasurer’s office for just $5. 

The state of Iowa provides many different specialty or personalized Iowa license plates. The selection of designs includes license plates for breast cancer awareness, Iowa’s Motorcycle Rider Education program, organ and tissue donor awareness, and plates different state universities in Iowa. There are many personalized license plates that are used to honor Purple Heart recipients, military veterans, and former prisoners of war.

In most situations, you can get personalized plates for cars, motorcycles, trucks, vans, sport utility vehicles, travel trailers, motor homes, and trailers. Fees for personalized or specialty Iowa license plates are in addition to the normal annual registration fees of a motor vehicle. These fees depend on the license plate design chosen.  Specialty or personalized Iowa license plates can be purchased through your county treasurer’s office or by using the application forms found on the Iowa Department of Transportation website. 

The Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles allows Vermont drivers the option of either standard green-and-white Vermont license plates or one of many specialty Vermont license plates. Before getting any license plates, you must make sure you are registered and titled with the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles. 

Unless you specifically order special Vermont license plates, you will automatically be issued standard Vermont licenses plates. These license plates feature white characters that are surrounded by a white rectangle on a green background with a small maple tree in the upper left corner and the phase “Green Mountain State” on the bottom.

You can apply for any personalized plate as long as it follows Vermont’s guidelines. Personalized Vermont license plates are limited to 7 characters and cannot be offensive. When submitting the Special Plate Application, you will also have to pay an additional $38 fee each year in addition to the normal registration fees. Sometimes it can take up to two months to process personalized Vermont license plates. If it is necessary, the state will provide temporary plates until your vanity plates are ready.

There are many different specialty plates available in Vermont. The fees involved depend on the style of the plate requested. Some specialty Vermont license plates include the following:

• Conservation Plates

• “Building Bright Futures” Plates

• Safety Organization Plates

• Veterans’ Plates

• VFW Plates

• POW, Pearl Harbor, and Purple Heart Plates

• Vermont Lions Club International Plates

• Antique License Plates

• Vermont Rotary International

• Vermont Emergency Medical Service

• Vermont Firefighters Association

• Vermont Amateur Radio Operator

• Vermont National Guard

Kansas requires you to have Kansas license plates on your motor vehicle. In order to get them, you must register your motor vehicle with the Kansas Department of Revenue Division of Vehicles.

Personalized Kansas License Plates

If you wish to purchase your own personalized Kansa license plates, you must first visit your local Division of Vehicles office. You will have to apply and pay for the new Kansas license plates at least four months prior to your vehicle’s registration renewal date. 

You can personalize Kansas license plates with a maximum of seven letters, numbers or spaces for a passenger vehicle, and five letters, numbers or spaces for a motorcycle or disability plate. You can use any combination that is currently available as long as the combination is not profane, lewd, indecent or vulgar in symbol, meaning, or connotation.

The Division of vehicles issues personalized Kansas license plates a five-year cycle. This cycle allows Kansas license plates that are no longer used to be cycled back for the use of other drivers. These personalized license plates are only available in one plate style that unique to personalized license plates only. The current artwork of personalized Kansas license plates depicts a brown buffalo on a tan background. The personalized plates for cars are limited to seven characters, while motorcycle plates are limited to five.

Personalized Kansas license plates have a fee of $40, which is a one-time fee for the five-year cycle. At the end of each five-year cycle, you must renew the license plate personalization, but there will not be an additional fee. However, your registration will still be subject to the normal vehicle registration fees, plate fees, personal property taxes, and county service fees.

If your motor vehicle is properly titled and registered in Virginia, you can choose to purchase different Virginia license plates for your vehicle rather than receiving the standard-issue Virginia license plates. In order to purchase license plates, you must have your title number and vehicle ID number, which can be found on your registration card. If you are purchasing personalized, specialized, or souvenir Virginia license plates through the mail or in person, you will also have to complete and submit Form VSA 10, the License Plate Application form. If you decide to order Virginia license plates online instead, you can look through samples of all the available license plates and see what they would look if you decided to personalize them.

The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles offers over 200 special Virginia license plates designs. For an additional annual fee, you can get Virginia license plates with your university logo and name, or promote the rotary club membership or show your enthusiasm for certain hobbies. There are different Virginia license plates representing civic organizations, the military, fraternities and sororities, and more.

You can also choose to personalize your Virginia license plates with a unique character combination of up to 7 numbers and letters. You can check online through the DMV Now service provided by the Department of Motor Vehicles to see if the license plate personalization you want is available. There is no obligation by using this service, but if you decide you want to purchase these special Virginia license plates, you can purchase or reserve your plates online. Personalized Virginia license plates cost an additional $10 every year.

The Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles issues two Oregon license plates to registered vehicles which are attached to front and back bumper of each vehicle. For mopeds, campers, motorcycles, and some other vehicles, only one license plate is issued and only one license plate must be displayed on the vehicle. Oregon license plates cannot not be covered or altered by any material that changes the appearance of the license plate. This includes license plate holders and frames, which should not prevent the letters, numbers, or stickers from being read.

The standard issued Oregon license plates include:

• Salmon

• Tree

•  Cultural

• Crater Lake

•  Antique vehicle

• Special interest

• HAM amateur radio operator

There are also plates, like the Veteran, higher education, non-profit plates, and the service-related  ones that are available as well.  Fees for Oregon license plates are based on the vehicle type and choice of license plate. The standard Oregon license plates cost $5 for a set of two. However, there are usually additional fees for different causes.  

You can also purchase personalized Oregon license plates, or vanity plates for vehicles. In order to do so, you must complete the Application for Registration, Renewal, Replacement or Transfer or Plates and/or Stickers as well as the Custom Plate Application and submit both to DMV with the appropriate fees. This includes the standard $25 registration fee for a year or $50 for two years and the $5 fee for two Oregon license plates or $3 for one plate. 

Your personalization must have between 1 and 6 characters plus one extra hyphen or space. Each character block may have a number, letter, hyphen, or you can leave spaces blank. However, you cannot have special characters or punctuation or obscenity. You also cannot personalize a specialty plate.

The age to get a learner’s permit in Alaska is at least 14 years of age and will only be issued with parental consent.  This permit can be renewed only once.  Due to the rural and isolated nature of many areas of Alaska, the permit practice test in Alaska may be administered by state troopers and village public safety officers at locations designated by the Alaskan state government.

You will need to provide identification that certifies your legal name and date of birth as well as your social security card and one other piece of identification that will verify the primary document you are submitting in order to take the permit practice test in Alaska.

A vision test, in addition to the written practice permit test in Alaska is required to obtain a learners permit.  The fee upon receiving this permit will be $20.  Those that do not pass the vision test with 20/40 vision will not be issued an Alaskan learners permit.  That test will be given at the DMV or will require a report from an optician.  The Alaska DMV will allow assistance on the permit practice test if you are English impaired.  This assistant will read the question to you, but cannot give you the answer to the question.  There will be separate tests for commercial and motor cycle licenses.

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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation requires vehicles to be registered and titles. Afterwards, drivers are given the option to personalize their vehicle through Pennsylvania license plates. Unless you request a special plate from the Department of Transportation when registering a vehicle, you will be given standard Pennsylvania license plates. These plates feature a blue license plate number in front of a blue, yellow, and white backdrop. “Pennsylvania” spans the top of the license, while the state’s official Web address, reaches across the bottom.

Personalized Pennsylvania license plates, also called vanity plates, can have a maximum of 7 numbers and letters with the option of either a space or a hyphen. Personalized motorcycle plates can only have 5 letters and numbers due to space. Personalized plates cannot be profane or obscene in nature. In order to apply for a personalized license plate, you must:

Own a valid license plate with a valid registration sticker, which you have to surrender after receiving your vanity plates.

Complete Form MV-904, or the Application for Special Registration Plate and include a check for $20.

Organizational Pennsylvania License Plates

Currently, the Department of Transportation offers over 100 Special Organizational plates, many of them being collegiate plates. All of these plates have the state’s standard license plate colors, but include the organization’s emblem or logo on the left side of the plate and the organization’s name on the bottom.

These organizational Pennsylvania license plates are available for all motor vehicles except trailers and motorcycles. If you are looking to obtain one of these plates, you must contact the organization’s main office for an application.