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Austria license plate: Motorcycle

Issued today 2005 to today. Motorcycle plates, set by the Kraftfahrgesetz 1967 (KFG 1967). One of 18 Austria license plates.

Austria license plate, Motorcycle (2005 to today), sample JQ-785I
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-999L, for example JQ-785I (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Decodes like every Austrian plate: district code up front, one letter for a state capital, two otherwise, and a serial that means nothing but must end in a letter. The motorcycle part is the smaller blank, not the characters.

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2005 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
210 × 170 mm · every country's size
  • Austria license plate, Motorcycle 520×120 mm (2005 to today)

    Motorcycle 520×120 mm

    motorcycle · 520 × 120 mm

  • Austria license plate, Motorcycle 250×200 mm (2005 to today)

    Motorcycle 250×200 mm

    motorcycle · 250 × 200 mm

About this plate
April 2005 nur mehr nach dem Muster VIII", which survives in the 2011 consolidated Fassung and was dropped from the current one, a good argument for reading historical Fassungen rather than only today's.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 25d Abs. 3 KDV in the Fassung valid from 01.04.2011, verbatim: 'Kennzeichentafeln für Motorräder werden ab 1. April 2005 nur mehr nach dem Muster VIII der Anlage 5e ausgegeben.' The current Fassung has dropped the... https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011385&Paragraf=25d&FassungVom=2011-...
  2. current § 25d Abs. 3 (Muster VIII default, Muster I where approved, the swap right) and Abs. 4 (three-wheelers without a body take Muster VIII). https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011385&Paragraf=25d
  3. Anlage 5e: MRT row (EU emblem +, weiß/schwarz, Wappen +, 4-6 Vormerkzeichen, Muster VII/VIII); KENNZEICHENFORMATE VIII = 210 x 170 mm, VII = 250 x 200 mm. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Bundesnormen/NOR40267389/NOR40267389.html
  4. § 49 Abs. 4 (colours, EU field, arms) and Abs. 6 Z 2 (rear only). https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49

This plate in your app

The series id is at-motorcycle. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Austria's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/at \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "at-motorcycle")'
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