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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58932</law_id><section_number>46.2-726</section_number><catch_line>License plates with reserved numbers or letters; fees</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-648.1</reference><reference>46.2-725</reference><reference>46.2-725.2</reference><reference>46.2-744</reference><reference>46.2-746.5</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Titling, Registration and Licensure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Titling and Registration of Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="10">Special License Plates</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> may, in his discretion, reserve <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> with certain registration numbers or letters or combinations thereof for issuance to persons requesting <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> so numbered and lettered. However, no such reserved <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> shall be issued to or renewed for any <span class="dictionary">owner</span> or co-<span class="dictionary">owner</span> of a <span class="dictionary">vehicle</span> who is registered pursuant to the Sex Offender and <span class="dictionary">Crimes</span> Against <span class="dictionary">Minors</span> Registry Act (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Purpose of the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry" href="/9.1-900/">9.1-900</a> et seq.) if the requested registration numbers or letters or combination thereof could be read, interpreted, or understood to be a reference to children.
		<span class="dictionary">License plates</span> with reserved numbers or letters may be issued for and displayed on emergency medical services <span class="dictionary">vehicles</span> operated by emergency medical services agencies.
		The annual fee or, in the case of permanent <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> for <span class="dictionary">trailers</span> and <span class="dictionary">semitrailers</span>, the one-time fee, for the issuance of any <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> with reserved numbers or letters shall be $10 plus the prescribed fee for state <span class="dictionary">license plates</span>. If those <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> with reserved numbers or letters are subject to an additional fee beyond the prescribed fee for state <span class="dictionary">license plates</span>, the fee for such special <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> with reserved numbers or letters shall be $10 plus the additional fee for the special <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> plus the prescribed fee for state <span class="dictionary">license plates</span>.
		The annual fee for reissuing <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> with the same combination of letters and numbers as <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> that were previously issued but not renewed shall be $10 plus the prescribed fee for state <span class="dictionary">license plates</span>. If those <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> are special <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> subject to an additional fee beyond the prescribed fee for state <span class="dictionary">license plates</span>, the fee shall be $10 plus the additional fee for the special <span class="dictionary">license plates</span> plus the prescribed fee for state <span class="dictionary">license plates</span>.</p></section></text><history>1972, c. 427, &#xA7; 46.1-105.2; 1987, c. 696; 1989, c. 727; 1992, c. 141; 1995, c. 747; 1997, cc. 94, 283; 2000, c. 126; 2001, c. 20; 2015, cc. 502, 503; 2016, cc. 143, 430.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
