Personalized Message Information
Creating your personalized message
- Use any combination of letters, numbers and the special characters dash, space and ampersand.
- The number of characters allowed on a license plate varies depending on the plate design. Including the International Symbol of Access reduces the number of characters you can display on your plate.
- To create a space between characters, leave the applicable box empty.
- Some plates, such as military and university plates, display a logo. The logo position is stationary and cannot be moved.
- Personalized character combinations for license plates registered to a vehicle must be unique. Therefore, your choice may be in use already. Simply enter another combination and try again.
Restrictions
A character combination may violate the personalized plate policy if it contains a combination of characters that could reasonably be seen by a person viewing the plate as:
- Profane, obscene, or vulgar in nature.
- Sexually explicit or graphic.
- Excretory related.
- Used to describe intimate body parts or genitals.
- Used to describe drugs, drug culture, or drug use.
- Used to condone or encourage violence.
- Used to describe illegal activities or illegal substances.
- Socially, racially, or ethnically offensive or disparaging.
Please note: DMV reserves the right to refuse to issue, and can recall, any character combination that violates the personalized plate policy. All personalized character combinations are screened by DMV to ensure that they do not violate our policy.
