• $35 initial fee for the Breast Cancer Awareness Fund.
• $10 annual fee for the Breast Cancer Awareness Fund.
• Annual vehicle registration renewal fee.

Plates (including personalized plates) may be purchased as a gift.  Gift certificates will be mailed to the purchaser.  

Numbered plates must be ordered through your county treasurer's office.

• $60 initial fee ($25 plate fee + $35 for the Breast Cancer Awareness Fund).
• $15 annual validation fee ($5 validation fee + $10 for the Breast Cancer Awareness Fund).
• Annual vehicle registration renewal fee

Personalized license plates may consist of up to five characters and numbers.   All personalized plate choices must have at least two characters.

• No punctuation marks are allowed.
• No denoting a government agency (i.e., DOT ).
• No display of characters which are sexual in connotation.
• No characters suggesting profane, obscene or inflammatory words or phrases, or those contrary to public policy.
• No characters or words defined in dictionaries as a term of vulgarity, contempt, prejudice, hostility, insult, or racial or ethnic degradation.
• No characters considered to be offensive.
• No characters that conflict with the regular license numbering system.
• Recognized as a swear word.
• Reference to an illegal substance or criminal act.
• Any foreign word falling in any of these categories.
• No duplicate combination of characters, such as:

  A0000 through Z9999	AA000 through ZZ999
  0000A through 9999Z	A000 through Z999
  000AA through 999ZZ	Numbers only

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Applications may also be obtained from your county treasurer's office or the following address:

Office of Vehicle Services
P.O. Box 9278
Des Moines, IA  50306-9278

Telephone:  515-237-3110
E-Mail:  vehser@dot.state.ia.us

Your plates will be sent to your county treasurer's office and they will notify you when your plates are available.  Plates must be assigned to a vehicle within 90 days or the plates will be voided and no refund issued.  Your current plates must be exchanged for your new plates.

©Iowa Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division
Updated February 11, 2008