| Alabama: | Current license - under UV state's seal will appear on front plus state seal will overlap upper right corner of photo. |
| Alaska: | Current license - under UV a pattern fluoresces to the right of the front picture and the state image will appear lower right.
Prior ID - "Alaska" is visible and repeats on left and right edge of license. |
| Arizona: | Current license - Cactus and background designs fluoresce green, on back a ghost portrait with birthdate appears on bottom left under UV.
Prior license - Round State Seal visible on front middle under UV. |
| Arkansas: | Current and prior - On front of ID the state outline appears random in three rows across top, middle and bottom of license under UV light. |
| California: | Current License - under UV light a second ghost image will appear above the B&W portrait and birthdate will vertically appear across large color picture. |
| Colorado: | Current - State seal appears and repeats in UV ink on lower third on the front the license. |
| Connecticut: | Current license - license number, holders name, birth date and two lighthouses visible on front in UV ink. On back repeating state name inside state outline visible under UV light. |
| Delaware: | Current fine line license: a second ghost image on right will appear under UV.
Prior License - Holographic overlay with repeating pattern of horse and rider; state seal in UV ink on back. |
| District of Columbia: | Current License - "DCDCDCDC" and other features appear above photo under UV.
Prior license - WASHINGTON DC" and "THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE" visible under UV light. |
| Florida: | Current license - secondary ghost image and holders name on the portrait visible under UV. |
| Georgia: | Current (fine line background) front state seal and "Georgia" that glows under UV light.
IDs prior to 2009 do not contain a UV security feature. |
| Hawaii: | Current – A row of Hibiscus flower repeats ON BACK of license.
Prior 2011 ID has "HAWAII" repeating across left and right edges of license visible under UV light. |
| Idaho: | Current (fine line background) - on front a partial state outline and "IDAHO" appears twice, once on the top and bottom under UV light.
Prior to 2012 - the state outline and IDAHO pattern will repeat diagonal under UV light. |
| Illinois: | Current license with small ghost image - A portion of "ILLINOIS" repeats across the face of the license under UV light.
Prior license – "A Safer State with .08" repeats across license. |
| Indiana: | Current license - a second ghost image, holder's name, birth date across top and bottom of larger photo visible under UV light. |
| Iowa: | Current license - state seal visible under UV on front of ID, back of license ghost UV image, card holder name, birthdate appear under UV light.
Prior license - ghost image, holders name and birthday visible under UV light. |
| Kansas: | Current (fine line) ID will display one state flower on front and card holder ghost image and birthdate appear on back under UV light.
Prior license has row of state flower and "KANSAS" across top under UV. |
| Kentucky: | Current License - THE BLUE GRASS STATE" repeats several times to the right of the card holder's picture under UV light. |
| Louisiana: | Current License - "Louisiana" repeats on top of ID and "JUSTICE" repeats on bottom under UV.
Prior white License: State seals repeats across middle in full-color UV ink visible under UV light. |
| Maryland: | Current license: four staggered lines of "Maryland" repeats across the face under UV. |
| Massachusetts: | Current fine-line background license: Staggered state seal repeating in UV ink on front of license. |
| Michigan: | Current License – on front one state seals in center on front, on back holders birth date and ghost image under UV light.
Current Enhanced license – state seals repeats on front under UV light. |
| Minnesota: | Current license: large color state seal appear on front under UV light. |
| Mississippi: | Current license: state seal and outline letters "DPS" appear under UV light. |
| Missouri: | Current license fine line license: " M O", three starts and state seal in upper right under UV.
Prior 2012 license - outline of state and "SHOW ME" repeat on front of license under UV. |
| Montana: | Current license: Repeating pick and shovel crossed image on front under UV light.
Prior license: "MONTANA" repeats diagonally across front under UV light. |
| Nebraska: | Current fine line license: "Ne" under Nebraska appears under UV light as well as the state seal and a star on bottom right of photo. |
| Nevada: | Current fine line license: Repeating state seals appears on upper front of license under UV light. |
| New Hampshire: | Current license: "New Hampshire" appears twice vertically at left and right on the front of the ID under UV light. |
| New Jersey: | Current license: Under UV light "NEW JERSEY" repeats on top and near bottom of license with state outline images appearing in middle. |
| New Mexico: | Current license: "NEW" and "MEXICO" repeat diagonally across the center, a row of small squares visible on bottom and three diamonds appear across top of license.
Prior license will have state name and symbol on back under UV light. |
| New York: | Current white fine line ID: Under UV pattern of glowing sunbursts appears over the photo, ID background shows a fine line spider web pattern that glows. Also the words "New York State" and the Seal of New York glows under UV light.
Prior license, light stars will appear at bottom of larger picture and also NY state outline appears near top with "NYS" written inside of outline. Back of ID, waving flag stripes appear in middle of ID under UV light. |
| North Carolina: | New 2016 ID, under UV a line ribbon pattern will appear across the top and bottom of the license and a downward ribbon with "North Carolina" written inside. Also on back portrait ghost image with last name and birthday will appear on ID.
No UV features on prior IDs. |
| North Dakota: | New 2015 ID: White background, "North Dakota Peace Garden State" repeats along top and bottom of ID and gold ink glows green under UV light.
The prior ID (darker background) no UV features. |
| Ohio: | New 2015 ID: Under UV light "OHIO - 1803" appears upper center of license, also 2 or 3 state seals will appear across face of ID.
Prior license: State outline in upper right photo appears and state seal on bottom right fluoresces on front under UV light. |
| Oklahoma: | Current license: State seal and the Dept. of Public Safety seal repeating pattern across front of license under UV light. |
| Oregon: | On the front "Oregon" repeats diagonally in the upper middle of license under UV light. |
| Pennsylvania: | Current license: has keystone outline with enclosing "PA" repeating across top and visible under UV light; also "PA" repeats on back in UV. |
| Rhode Island: | Current license: state flag emblem (anchor surrounded by stars) visible on front center under UV light. |
| South Carolina: | Current fine line background, Palmetto tree appears on front center under UV light.
Prior license has no visible UV features. |
| South Dakota: | Current license - a second ghost image on right and "South Dakota" appears three times starting lower left across photo in a wave pattern to the upper right of ID under UV light.
Prior license - "South Dakota" repeats in stylized script across front and is visible under UV light. |
| Tennessee: | Current license - UV features (a custom graphic and the state outline are staggered diagonal across the upper half of the ID and the state seal appears twice across the bottom) were added to a new ID in 2013. The new ID looks similar to the prior ID however, the text is a light blue.
The prior ID (with a darker blue font) has no visible UV features. |
| Texas: | Current license - the seal and the first of the three stars on front will fluoresce under UV light, on back birth date and ghost image are visible under UV light.
Prior license: repeating "TEXAS" will be visible under UV light. |
| Utah: | Current fine line background license has "UT" repeating in two rows across license under UV light, the top row will be upside down. |
| Vermont: | Current license - "Vermont" appears and repeats diagonally across top and horizontally across bottom front of license under UV light. |
| Virginia: | Current license - state seal, DMV logo and text visible under UV light.
Prior license to 2009 has no UV features. |
| Washington: | Current license - image of state seal repeats across middle license visible under UV light. |
| West Virginia: | Current license - "West Virginia" and state seal appear on back of license under UV light.
Prior license - under UV light on front state outline with yellow overlapping "WV" repeats across front, state seal overlaps photo at bottom. |
| Wisconsin: | Current new license with B&W image - fluorescing patters appear including the state outline over photo with multiple state seals inside, next to state outline "Wisconsin" appears three times in increasing fonts sizes and Wisconsin Department of Transportation logo appears upper center under UV.
Prior fine line license - on front state seal appears covering upper right corner of large portrait with "W" underneath and "1848" vertically on upper right corner under UV light.
Prior ID still valid in 2016 - wavy stripes visible under UV light with one wavy line with "Wisconsin" in the middle. |
| Wyoming: | Current license - under UV light a third ghost image, holders name and birthday will appear in center on front.
Prior license second ghost image, holders name and birthday will appear in on front on right side of license.
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