Low-Number MA License Plate Lottery Drawing: Here's When

BOSTON, MA — Does your licence plate have too many digits for your taste? If you're lucky you could draw some fewer digits in the annual low number license plate lottery happening Thursday.

The RMV started accepting applications for a "Low Number Plate" lottery in June for folks that could get a licence plate that read 4J, or simply 1400 or Z81 (all of those are currently available, according to the registry.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced the yearly drawing would happen Thursday, Sept. 6, beginning at 8 p.m., on WBZ AM 1030.

All available low number plates will be drawn Thursday night and lottery applicants and low-number plate enthusiasts can listen to the drawing by tuning in to AM 1030 or by visiting the station website. If you're busy Thursday fret not: Drivers will also get notified by Sept. 15, and the names of winners will be posted on the RMV website by the end of the day on Friday.

This year, some 11,477 applications came in for the low number MA plate lottery. But there are only 201 eligible plates, according to MassDOT. That's more than last year when the Registry received more than 11,000 applications for 162 plates. And that was an increase of 3,000 applications from the prior year.

Entries for the 2018 lottery had to be mailed or postmarked by Aug. 28, to be eligible for the drawing.

It's free to apply, but if you get selected, you still have to pay the fee that comes with all new license plates in addition to a standard registration fee.

Low number plates must be renewed every two years.

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