• $45 initial fee
• $25 annual fee for the Iowa Resources Enhancement and Protection Fund
• Annual 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.

• $90 initial fee ($45 plate fee + $45 for the Iowa Resources Enhancement and Protection Fund)
• $30 annual validation fee ($5 validation fee + $25 for the Iowa Resources Enhancement and Protection Fund)
• Annual 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 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.
• No duplicate combination of characters.
• No zeros.