Brazil license plate: Mercosur motorcycle converted

Issued today 2018 to today. Motorcycle plates for motorcycle, moped, tricycle, and quadricycle, issued by SENATRAN (Secretaria Nacional de Trânsito), órgão máximo executivo de trânsito da União, Ministério dos Transportes; normative authority CONTRAN (Conselho Nacional de Trânsito). One of 11 Brazil license plates.

Brazil license plate, Mercosur motorcycle converted (2018 to today), sample MTB7D52

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL9L99, for example MTB7D52 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The car conversion cipher on two wheels: the fifth character encodes the old plate's second digit, A for 0 through J for 9, the original PNU number is still there if you count.

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

Years issued
2018 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle, moped, tricycle, and quadricycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
200 × 170 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Same one-way reading as the car conversion, a converted plate necessarily carries A-J, but an A-J plate is not necessarily converted (file header, fact 2). 741/2018 reason. No stronger inference is available: Brazilian motorcycles have been registered throughout the PNU era, and Res.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Anexo II items 1-2 (conversion table and the A-J reservation) + Anexo I Tabela I for the two-wheeler dimensions https://www.gov.br/transportes/pt-br/assuntos/transito/conteudo-contran/resolucoes/resolucao9692022anexos.pdf
  2. art. 2 § 4 https://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/-/resolucao-contran-n-969-de-20-de-junho-de-2022-410033795

This plate in your app

The series id is br-mercosul-motorcycle-converted-2018. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Brazil's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/br \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "br-mercosul-motorcycle-converted-2018")'