Brazil license plate: PNU motorcycle 1990
Retired Documented 1990 to 2012. Motorcycle plates for motorcycle, moped, and tricycle, 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL-9999, for exampleMTB-0921(L is any letter, 9 any digit)Motorcycles decoded exactly like cars: the three letters came from the registering state's reserved block, so a bike's first home state was readable at a glance.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- Documented 1990 to 2012; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle, moped, and tricycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#1C1C1CBackground#8F999F - Size
- 187 × 136 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- 372/2011 inserted Anexo item 3.1 requiring motorcycles "fabricados ou quando da mudança de município, a partir de 1º de janeiro de 2012" to use the larger plate, so the small plate stopped being fitted to new machines at that date while remaining lawful on those already carrying it. Reflective film became compulsory for motorcycle plates in stages, hire category from 1 January 2008, other categories for machines registered or transferred from 1 January 2008, all remaining vehicles built from 1 January 2012 (art. 6 and its parágrafo único, as amended by Res. 241/07 and 372/11), so motorcycle plates fitted before those dates were under no reflective-film obligation at all.
Legal basis and sources
- Anexo item 3: 'motocicleta, motoneta, ciclomotor e triciclos motorizados ... a) dimensões da placa em milímetros: h = 136; c= 187; b) dimensões dos caracteres da placa em milímetros: h = 42; d = 6' https://web.archive.org/web/20140815083608/http://www.denatran.gov.br/download/Consolidadas/cons231.pdf
- Res. 45/98 Anexo item 3: the same 187 x 136 mm plate for 'biciclos, triciclos e similares motorizados' in 1998 https://www.gov.br/transportes/pt-br/assuntos/transito/conteudo-contran/resolucoes/resolucao045_98.zip
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is br-pnu-motorcycle-1990. 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-pnu-motorcycle-1990")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/br/br-pnu-motorcycle-1990.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/br/br-pnu-motorcycle-1990/template.svg
