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Utah Honors Veterans Plate — $25 to Start, $10 a Year, and the Money Goes to Veterans

A special group plate inscribed "UTAH HONORS VETERANS" carrying branch decal emblems. It is available to any person willing to make the contribution — $25 for the initial plate and $10 at each annual renewal — and the contribution funds the state veterans department’s work.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

A special group plate inscribed "UTAH HONORS VETERANS" carrying branch decal emblems. It is available to any person willing to make the contribution — $25 for the initial plate and $10 at each annual renewal — and the contribution funds the state veterans department’s work.

What it's worth: A special group plate for a $25 initial and $10 annual contribution

  • The plate is inscribed "UTAH HONORS VETERANS" and features the decal emblems of the armed forces branch of choice, as well as the American Legion.
  • The department states the plate is available to any person who desires to make the required contribution of $25 for the initial plate and $10 for the annual renewal.
  • The contribution benefits the state veterans department and generates funds used in support of efforts benefiting veterans and service members in the state.
  • Additional combat badges are available through the motor vehicle division.
  • The figures given are the contribution only. The department does not state whether the ordinary plate fee, special group plate fee or registration certificate fee are additional.

Who is entitled to it

  • The plate is open to anyone willing to make the contribution.
  • Your home is in Utah.

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How to claim it

  1. 1Note that this plate needs no rating and no service. The department says any person who makes the contribution may have it, which makes it the plate a family member can carry.
  2. 2Budget for the contribution twice over: $25 the first time and $10 at every renewal, for as long as you keep the plate.
  3. 3Ask about combat badges at the same counter. The department says additional combat badges are available through the motor vehicle division.
  4. 4Do not confuse this with the disabled veteran plate, which is a separate honour plate with its own rules and a zero contribution.
  5. 5Ask the counter to itemise the total. The department publishes the contribution but not the ordinary plate and registration fees that sit alongside it.
  6. 6If you want the money to reach veterans, this is the plate that does it — the department states the contribution funds its own work.
Form
Special group plate application at the motor vehicle division
File with
Utah Division of Motor Vehicles
At each renewal
Claimed again whenever the underlying licence or registration renews.
CorrectionThis is not a veteran-only plate and it is not free. It is a fundraising plate anybody may buy, and the corpus already carries the separate disabled veteran plate, which has a zero contribution but its own standard fees.
Known gapWhat the plate costs in total was not established. The department publishes only the contribution; the division of motor vehicles fee table, which carries the plate fee, special group plate fee and registration certificate fee, refused every request this session.

Sources

Why only one source type: The booklet is the administering state department’s own publication. The motor vehicle division pages that would confirm the surrounding fees answered HTTP 403 to every request this session.

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