Northwest Territories licence plate: Motorcycle

Issued today Documented since 2013. Motorcycle plates, issued by Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Government of the Northwest Territories (Department of Infrastructure, Driver and Vehicle Services). One of 14 Northwest Territories license plates.

Northwest Territories (Canada) license plate, Motorcycle (documented since 2013), sample 53113

Format, years and the law

Format
99999, for example 53113 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
Documented since 2013; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #0033A0 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
A parse product must not claim class from an all-numeric NWT serial. Act s. 47(3) puts the plate on the rear fender.

Legal basis and sources

  1. reg. 8(2)(g) and 8(2)(i) side by side https://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/en/files/legislation/motor-vehicles/motor-vehicles.r12.pdf
  2. Act s. 47(3) https://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/en/files/legislation/motor-vehicles/motor-vehicles.a.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-nt-motorcycle. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Northwest Territories's series:

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