British Columbia licence plate: Motorcycle
Issued today 1970 to today. Motorcycle plates, issued by Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), as delegate of the Province under the Motor Vehicle Act. One of 13 British Columbia license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999LL, for example407NW(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 1970 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#12326EBackground#FFFFFF - About this plate
- Bulletin 33 does not tabulate the motorcycle pattern, and no other ICBC publication carrying it was found. The 2025 recut list names sixteen types of which the bulletin tabulates eight; motorcycle may be among the untabulated eight.
Legal basis and sources
- the six-character bound and the I/O/Q exclusion; motorcycle NOT tabulated https://partners.icbc.com/assets/5GMseymkqs8E4Otb8osoGQ/bulletin-33-new-licence-plate-configurations.pdf
- reg. 3.021 vertical fork mounting https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/26_58_01
This plate in your app
The series id is ca-bc-motorcycle. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of British Columbia's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-bc \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-bc-motorcycle")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-motorcycle.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-motorcycle/template.svg
