How can I tell what year model an ATV is?

[peppermint71940]

My husbands father just gave us a Kawasaki Bayou 300, My father in law has no idea what the year model is. My husband knows that there is a plate on it somewhere that will tell him. Does anyone know where that plate might be??? Any help would be very much appreciated.

[Klim0009]

If you have the owners manual it will tell you in there.