PUBLIC NOTICE – PLATE TO CUSTOMER SYSTEM – EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2024

Meade County Clerk’s Office

See below for important updates regarding our new vehicle registration system coming in January. Are you planning to sell or trade your car? Now, when you sell or trade your vehicle, you will keep your license plate. Kentucky is changing the way it handles plates. Starting in January the State will operate in the “Plate -to- Customer” format. In this new format, when you sell or trade your vehicle, you keep the license plate with the registration decal that you paid for at the renewal time. This change allows you the option to use the full 12 months of your paid registration.
If you buy another vehicle, the plate you remove from your sold or traded vehicle can be put on the newly purchased vehicle, but only after you transfer the plate to the newly purchased vehicle at your county clerk’s office.
Please remember your plate must be transferred to the new, or used vehicle that you purchase, before you drive with that plate.