The department shall issue the following types of license plates:

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 60-3,104

  • Apportionable vehicle: means any motor vehicle or trailer used or intended for use in two or more member jurisdictions that allocate or proportionally register motor vehicles or trailers and used for the transportation of persons for hire or designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. See Nebraska Statutes 60-308
  • Autocycle: means any motor vehicle (1) having a seat that does not require the operator to straddle or sit astride it, (2) designed to travel on three wheels in contact with the ground, (3) having antilock brakes, (4) designed to be controlled with a steering wheel and pedals, and (5) in which the operator and passenger ride either side by side or in tandem in a seating area that is equipped with a manufacturer-installed three-point safety belt system for each occupant and that has a seating area that either (a) is completely enclosed and is equipped with manufacturer-installed airbags and a manufacturer-installed roll cage or (b) is not completely enclosed and is equipped with a manufacturer-installed rollover protection system. See Nebraska Statutes 60-309.01
  • Boat dealer: means a person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging boats at retail who has a principal place of business for such purposes in this state. See Nebraska Statutes 60-312
  • Bus: means every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten passengers and used for the transportation of persons and every motor vehicle, other than a taxicab, designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation. See Nebraska Statutes 60-313
  • Dealer: means any person engaged in the business of selling snowmobiles at wholesale or retail. See Nebraska Statutes 60-3,207
  • Department: means the Department of Motor Vehicles. See Nebraska Statutes 60-319
  • Farm trailer: means a trailer or semitrailer belonging to a farmer or rancher and used wholly and exclusively to carry supplies to or from the owner's farm or ranch, used by a farmer or rancher to carry his or her own agricultural products to or from storage or market, or used by a farmer or rancher for hauling of supplies or agricultural products in exchange of services. See Nebraska Statutes 60-324
  • Farm truck: means a truck or sport utility vehicle, including any combination of a truck, truck-tractor, or sport utility vehicle, and a trailer or semitrailer, of a farmer or rancher (1) used exclusively to carry a farmer's or rancher's own supplies, farm equipment, and household goods to or from the owner's farm or ranch, (2) used by the farmer or rancher to carry his or her own agricultural products to or from storage or market, (3) used by a farmer or rancher in exchange of services in such hauling of supplies or agricultural products, or (4) used occasionally to carry camper units, to tow boats or cabin trailers, or to carry or tow museum pieces or historical vehicles, without compensation, to events for public display or educational purposes. See Nebraska Statutes 60-325
  • Fertilizer trailer: means any trailer, including gooseneck applicators or trailers, designed and used exclusively to carry or apply agricultural fertilizer or agricultural chemicals and having a gross weight, including load thereon, of twenty thousand pounds or less. See Nebraska Statutes 60-326
  • Former military vehicle: means a motor vehicle that was manufactured for use in any country's military forces and is maintained to accurately represent its military design and markings, regardless of the vehicle's size or weight, but is no longer used, or never was used, by a military force. See Nebraska Statutes 60-328.01
  • Handicapped or disabled person: means any individual with a severe visual, neurological, or physical impairment which limits personal mobility and results in an inability to travel more than two hundred feet without stopping or without the use of a wheelchair, crutch, walker, or prosthetic, orthotic, or other assistant device, any individual whose personal mobility is limited as a result of respiratory problems, any individual who has a cardiac condition to the extent that his or her functional limitations are classified in severity as being Class III or Class IV, according to standards set by the American Heart Association, and any individual who has permanently lost all or substantially all the use of one or more limbs. See Nebraska Statutes 60-331.02
  • Historical vehicle: means a motor vehicle or trailer which is thirty or more years old, which is essentially unaltered from the original manufacturer's specifications, and which is, because of its significance, being collected, preserved, restored, or maintained by a collector as a leisure pursuit. See Nebraska Statutes 60-333
  • Local truck: means a truck and combinations of trucks, truck-tractors, or trailers operated solely within an incorporated city or village or within ten miles of the corporate limits of the city or village in which they are owned, operated, and registered. See Nebraska Statutes 60-336
  • Manufacturer: means a person, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing snowmobiles. See Nebraska Statutes 60-3,207
  • Metropolitan utilities district: means a district created pursuant to section 14-2101. See Nebraska Statutes 60-336.02
  • Minitruck: means a foreign-manufactured import vehicle or domestic-manufactured vehicle which (1) is powered by an internal combustion engine with a piston or rotor displacement of one thousand five hundred cubic centimeters or less, (2) is sixty-seven inches or less in width, (3) has a dry weight of four thousand two hundred pounds or less, (4) travels on four or more tires, (5) has a top speed of approximately fifty-five miles per hour, (6) is equipped with a bed or compartment for hauling, (7) has an enclosed passenger cab, (8) is equipped with headlights, taillights, turnsignals, windshield wipers, a rearview mirror, and an occupant protection system, and (9) has a four-speed, five-speed, or automatic transmission. See Nebraska Statutes 60-337.01
  • Motor vehicle: means any vehicle propelled by any power other than muscular power. See Nebraska Statutes 60-339
  • Motorcycle: means any motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for use of the operator and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground. See Nebraska Statutes 60-340
  • Owner: means a person, firm, or corporation which holds a legal title of a motor vehicle or trailer. See Nebraska Statutes 60-342
  • Passenger car: means a motor vehicle designed and used to carry ten passengers or less and not used for hire. See Nebraska Statutes 60-345
  • Public power district: means a district as defined by section 70-601 receiving annual gross revenue of at least forty million dollars as determined by the Nebraska Power Review Board. See Nebraska Statutes 60-346.01
  • Recreational vehicle: means a motor vehicle designed for living quarters. See Nebraska Statutes 60-347
  • State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
  • Trailer: means any device without motive power designed for carrying persons or property and being towed by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle. See Nebraska Statutes 60-354
  • Transporter: means any person lawfully engaged in the business of transporting motor vehicles or trailers not his or her own solely for delivery thereof (1) by driving singly, (2) by driving in combinations by the towbar, fullmount, or saddlemount method or any combination thereof, or (3) when a truck or truck-tractor tows a trailer. See Nebraska Statutes 60-355
  • Utility trailer: means a trailer having a gross weight, including load thereon, of nine thousand pounds or less. See Nebraska Statutes 60-358
  • Well-boring apparatus: means trucks, truck-tractors, or combinations of trucks or truck-tractors and trailers which are not for hire and are used exclusively to travel to and from the well site including (1) the well rig truck, (2) the boom truck, (3) the water tank truck, and (4) such other devices as are used exclusively for transporting well-boring apparatus to and from the well site including the drill stem, casing, drilling mud, pumps and related equipment, and well-site excavating machinery or equipment. See Nebraska Statutes 60-359
  • Well-servicing equipment: means equipment used for the (1) care and replacement of down-hole production equipment and (2) restimulation of a well. See Nebraska Statutes 60-360

(1) Amateur radio station license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,126 ;

(2) Apportionable vehicle license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,203 ;

(3) Autocycle license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,100 ;

(4) Boat dealer license plates issued pursuant to section 60-379 ;

(5) Breast Cancer Awareness Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,230 and 60-3,231 ;

(6) Bus license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,144 ;

(7) Choose Life License Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,232 and 60-3,233 ;

(8) Commercial motor vehicle license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,147 ;

(9) Dealer or manufacturer license plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,114 and 60-3,115 ;

(10) Disabled veteran license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,124 ;

(11) Donate Life Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,245 and 60-3,246 ;

(12) Down Syndrome Awareness Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,247 and 60-3,248 ;

(13) Farm trailer license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,151 ;

(14) Farm truck license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,146 ;

(15) Farm trucks with a gross weight of over sixteen tons license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,146 ;

(16) Fertilizer trailer license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,151 ;

(17) Former military vehicle license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,236 ;

(18) Gold Star Family license plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,122.01 and 60-3,122.02 ;

(19) Handicapped or disabled person license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,113 ;

(20) Historical vehicle license plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,130 to 60-3,134 ;

(21) Josh the Otter-Be Safe Around Water Plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,258 ;

(22) Local truck license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,145 ;

(23) Metropolitan utilities district license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,228 ;

(24) Military Honor Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,122.03 and 60-3,122.04 ;

(25) Minitruck license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,100 ;

(26) Motor vehicle license plates for motor vehicles owned or operated by the state, counties, municipalities, or school districts issued pursuant to section 60-3,105 ;

(27) Motor vehicles exempt pursuant to section 60-3,107 ;

(28) Motorcycle license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,100 ;

(29) Mountain Lion Conservation Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,226 and 60-3,227 ;

(30) Native American Cultural Awareness and History Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,234 and 60-3,235 ;

(31) Nebraska Cornhusker Spirit Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,127 to 60-3,129 ;

(32) Nebraska History Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,255 and 60-3,256 ;

(33) Nebraska 150 Sesquicentennial Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,223 to 60-3,225 ;

(34) Nonresident owner thirty-day license plates issued pursuant to section 60-382 ;

(35) Passenger car having a seating capacity of ten persons or less and not used for hire issued pursuant to section 60-3,143 other than autocycles;

(36) Passenger car having a seating capacity of ten persons or less and used for hire issued pursuant to section 60-3,143 other than autocycles;

(37) Pearl Harbor license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,122 ;

(38) Personal-use dealer license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,116 ;

(39) Personalized message license plates for motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers, except motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers registered under section 60-3,198, issued pursuant to sections 60-3,118 to 60-3,121 ;

(40) Pets for Vets Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,249 and 60-3,250 ;

(41) Prisoner-of-war license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,123 ;

(42) Prostate Cancer Awareness Plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,240 ;

(43) Public power district license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,228 ;

(44) Purple Heart license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,125 ;

(45) Recreational vehicle license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,151 ;

(46) Repossession license plates issued pursuant to section 60-375 ;

(47) Sammy’s Superheroes license plates for childhood cancer awareness issued pursuant to section 60-3,242 ;

(48) Special interest motor vehicle license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,135.01 ;

(49) Specialty license plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,104.01 and 60-3,104.02 ;

(50) Support the Arts Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,251 and 60-3,252 ;

(51) Support Our Troops Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,243 and 60-3,244 ;

(52) The Good Life Is Outside Plates issued pursuant to sections 60-3,253 and 60-3,254 ;

(53) Trailer license plates issued for trailers owned or operated by the state, counties, municipalities, or school districts issued pursuant to section 60-3,106 ;

(54) Trailer license plates issued for trailers owned or operated by a metropolitan utilities district or public power district pursuant to section 60-3,228 ;

(55) Trailer license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,100 ;

(56) Trailers exempt pursuant to section 60-3,108 ;

(57) Transporter license plates issued pursuant to section 60-378 ;

(58) Trucks or combinations of trucks, truck-tractors, or trailers which are not for hire and engaged in soil and water conservation work and used for the purpose of transporting pipe and equipment exclusively used by such contractors for soil and water conservation construction license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,149 ;

(59) Utility trailer license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,151 ;

(60) Well-boring apparatus and well-servicing equipment license plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,109 ; and

(61) Wildlife Conservation Plates issued pursuant to section 60-3,238.

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