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Is My Plate Available?: Yes – you can look your preferred license plate up online! Visit the Maine Personalized Plate Website.

Duplication of an existing license plate.

The website also states that the following are not allowed:

Limitations: Personalized vanity license plates in Maine are subject to approval by the Maine Secretary of State – Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

You can use any combination of Letters A to Z, Spaces, Dashes, Ampersands and Numbers 0 to 9.

Number of Characters: In Maine, they allow a maximum of 7 characters on your Personalized Plate.

For more information, visit the Maine Personalized License Plate Online Application FAQ.

Fee: The fee for a personalized license plate in Maine is $15 in addition to the regular renewal fee.

Types of Vehicles: The Maine Secretary of State – Bureau of Motor Vehicles allows personalized vanity license plates on Autos, Pickups, Vans, Trailers, Motor Homes and Motorcycles.

License plates can only be ordered by a registered owner and the plate you order must be registered to an Maine vehicle at the time of issuance. Personalized license plates in Maine can also be ordered online and take up to 30 days for processing and delivery. Maine allows you to determine if your specific lettering on the license plate is available online. Approximately three-quarters of all Maine registrants live in towns participating in Rapid Renewal.The Maine Secretary of State – Bureau of Motor Vehicles oversees the distribution and issuance of personalized and customized vanity license plates. To facilitate fee calculation and to ease the municipal clerks’ workloads, the Bureau encourages motorcycle registrants to use the online service Rapid Renewal to renew whenever possible.

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That is, after the transition to mandatory March expiration is complete, anyone renewing late will be charged full annual registration fees and excise taxes, as is the case today. However, fees for delayed renewal will be calculated in accordance with existing state law, and generally full fees will be charged. In the future, when an owner registers a newly acquired motorcycle, the registration fee and excise tax will be prorated to reflect a March expiration. The standard annual motorcycle registration fee is $21. If it appears fees were not prorated correctly, they can be most easily corrected at the counter. However, motorcycle registrants should review their registration fees and taxes at the point of registration.

The Bureau has provided our municipal agents and their computer vendors with instructions for the proration of all fees. BMV has modified and tested our computer system to correctly calculate prorated motorcycle registration fees.

In order to transition into a mandatory March expiration, registration fees and excise taxes will be prorated for the correct number of months.

The registrant will be issued a combined month/year sticker, which should be placed in the upper right corner. That is, starting in April 2012, when a motorcycle is registered or renewed, the expiration date will be changed to expire in the next March. In order to accommodate the inspection sticker, all motorcycle registrations (except those classes not required to be inspected) will be changed to a fixed March expiration. The inspection sticker will be placed in the plate’s upper left corner. The new requirement starts in March, and will be phased in over the next year. Previously, a law was scheduled to go into effect to require the inspection sticker’s display on a mounting bracket, or on the motorcycle’s rear fender. Last session, the legislature passed LD 221, “An Act to Make Changes to the Motorcycle Inspection Program.” LD 221 changed the law to require the motorcycle inspection sticker to be displayed on the vehicle’s registration plate. Motorcycle Registration and Inspection Sticker Changes