Registration & Plates

Special requirements

The applicant and the applicant's service director shall sign the application form certifying that the applicant is a current member of a paid or volunteer emergency medical services agency.

Numbered plates

• $25 initial fee to the Emergency Medical Services Fund
• Annual registration renewal fee

Effective July 17, 2013, an owner of an EMS plate may obtain a duplicate of their current numbered EMS plate when their plate is due for replacement. A new application must be completed and submitted with a $25 fee.

Personalized plates

• $50 initial fee  ($25 plate fee + $25 for personalization)
• $5 annual renewal fee
• Annual registration renewal fee (paid to county treasurer)

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 that 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
• Cannot be all numbers

For questions

• Telephone: 515-237-3110
• Email: dot.plates@iowadot.us