The U.S. state of Florida first required its residents to register their motor vehicles in 1905. Registrants had to provide their own license plates for display until 1918, when the state began to supply plates, becoming the last of the contiguous 48 states to do so.
Passenger baseplates
1918 to 1974
In 1956, the U.S. states and Canadian provinces came to an agreement with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, the Automobile Manufacturers Association and the National Safety Council that standardized the size for license plates for vehicles (except those for motorcycles) at 6 inches (15Â cm) in height by 12 inches (30Â cm) in width, with standardized mounting holes. The 1955 (dated 1956) issue was the first Florida license plate that complied with these standards.
1974 to present
County coding, 1938â€"77
Florida used numeric county codes on its license plates between 1938 and 1977, with the order of the codes based on the populations of each of the state's 67 counties according to a 1935 census. There was also code 68 on plates ordered from the state tag office in Tallahassee, and code 90 on replacement plates.
Non-passenger and specialty plates
Non-passenger
The state issues many non-passenger types of license plates to various vehicle classes and types.
Specialty
Florida has offered a wide variety of specialty license plates to its motorists, most for an extra fee. Only a few of these types are no longer issued; a number of other types have been redesigned since they were first issued.
Discontinued types
References
External links
- Florida license plates 1969-present
- Florida DMV listing of specialty plates
- Florida license plates
