Regular License Plates

Available For:  Passenger cars, sport utility vehicles, hearses, motor homes, buses, passenger vans.

Number of Plates Allowed: Unlimited

Plate Options: Personalized license plates

Information: Research Colorado Revised Statute 42-3-306(2)(b).

Available For: 2 to 3 wheeled motor vehicle that uses directly connected steering

Number of Plates Allowed: Unlimited

Plate Options: Personalized license plates

Information: Research Colorado Revised Statute 42-3-306(5).

Available For: Any motor vehicle designed to travel on no more than three wheels.

Number of Plates Allowed: Unlimited.

Plate Options:

• Motorcycle plates
• Motorcycle Personalized 

Information: Research Colorado Revised Statute 42-3-102(59)

About: Truck equipped with a body, which is generally and commonly used to carry and transport property over the highways including sport utility vehicles with a truck bed and cargo vans.

Available For: Trucks that do not exceed sixteen thousand pounds empty weight.

Number of Plates Allowed: Unlimited

Plate Options: Personalized license plates

Information: Research Colorado Revised Statute 42-3-306(5).

About: Used exclusively for pleasure, enjoyment, recreational purposes or transportation of the owner, lessee or occupant. May be used singly or in combination with a trailer or utility trailer, which is used in the same manner as the truck.  Not used to transport cargo or passengers for profit or hire.

Available For: Noncommercial or recreational vehicles, except for motor homes

Plate Options: Personalized license plates

Information: Research Colorado Revised Statute 42-3-306 (13).

About: This identifying plate permits qualified applicants to park their vehicle or a vehicle in which they are a passenger in designated disability parking spaces.

Available For: Passenger cars, trucks that do not exceed 16,000 pounds empty weight, motor homes, motorcycles.

Who Qualifies: A person with a physical impairment that limits the person's mobility to the extent that the person with a disability is unable to walk 200 feet without extreme pain, fatigue or other ill effects or without the aid of a mechanical device. A licensed Colorado physician, Advance Practice Nurse, Podiatrist, or Commissioned Medical Officer must certify under penalty of perjury that the disability causes a substantial mobility limitation.

Number of Plates Allowed:  The department may issue two identifying placards, two identifying plates, or one plate and one placard to an eligible individual. C.R.S. 42-3-204(3)(b)(I)

For more information see DR2816 Persons with Disabilities Parking Privileges Pamphlet

Requirements: Qualifying person must submit form DR 2219 Persons With Disabilities Parking Privileges Application 

For personalized persons with disabilities license plates: Personalized License Plate Application  

More Information: Research Colorado Revised Statute 42-3-204.  1 CCR 204-10 Rule 25 Persons with Disabilities Parking Privileges, Code of Federal Regulations 23 CFR 1235

Available For: Passenger cars or trucks that do not exceed sixteen thousand pounds empty weight.

Fees: One-time fee of $50.00 for the issuance or replacement of plates.  $25 renewal fee.

Number of Plates Allowed: Unlimited.

Plate Options: Personalized license plates

Information: Research Colorado Revised Statute 42-3-212

Who Qualifies: Any person with a Trailer, Utility Trailer, Trailer Coach or Multi-purpose Trailer.

Number of Plates Allowed: Unlimited.

Plate Options: Personalized license plates

Information: Research Colorado Revised Statute 42-3-306(3).

License Plates are manufactured by Colorado Correctional Industries at a cost of:

An embossed plate is a plate with the raised lettering pressed into the material. The standard green and white plates are embossed.

A Print-On-Demand plate is a flat laser-etched image on the metal. Personalized plates and other special plate designs (e.g. military, personalized, group plates) are “Print-On-Demand” plates. 

For more information about Colorado Correctional Industries, please click here.