These 25 License Plates Were Rejected By New York State

Thinking about getting personalized license plates in New York? Consider your options carefully as certain requests have been BANNED. Scroll down to see 25 examples of plates banned by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

If you are a vanity plate kind of driver, the process of obtaining your plate is a pretty simple 4 step process. Start at the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles site but BEWARE, you might not get the plate you desire.

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According to the New York DMV site personalized plates are standard series plates that have a combination of numbers and letters that you select. These unique plates come at at cost of $60 upfront and $31.25 each year that you keep it. For motorcycles it's a $30 initial cost and $18.75 annually.

The catch is that you can't just have any plate message that you want. The State of New York will review your request and may or may not approve your display. Plate requests could be rejected due to obscenity, copyright infringement or any number of reasons.

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Marijuana is legal in New York State so why was this request rejected? Maybe this family's other plate is HOLE and New York certainly wouldn't want to bring attention to our POT HOLE problem. Either way, this was rejected. As a matter of fact nearly 2000 requests are rejected each year by the State of New York. Here are 25 more that were turned down in recent years.

Banned New York License Plates

These personalized plates were rejected by New York State in 2022. Some of these plates are NSFW.

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New York License Plates by Birth Year

What was the New York State license plate design on the year you were born? Check out 1950-present day below

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To find out more about how has the price of gas changed throughout the years, Stacker ran the numbers on the cost of a gallon of gasoline for each of the last 84 years. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (released in April 2020), we analyzed the average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline from 1976 to 2020 along with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for unleaded regular gasoline from 1937 to 1976, including the absolute and inflation-adjusted prices for each year.

Read on to explore the cost of gas over time and rediscover just how much a gallon was when you first started driving.

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