Québec licence plate: Motorcycle

Issued today 2008 to today. Motorcycle plates for motorcycle, moped, and scooter, issued by Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ). One of 16 Québec license plates.

Québec (Canada) license plate, Motorcycle (2008 to today), sample 54563Z

Format, years and the law

Format
99999L, for example 54563Z (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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

Years issued
2008 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle, moped, and scooter.
Colours
Characters #003DA5 Background #FFFFFF
Size
20 × 10 cm (200 × 100 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
ONE SERIES FOR MOTORCYCLES AND MOPEDS, which is the regulation's own cut, art. 100 names « un cyclomoteur et une motocyclette » in one breath and gives them one prefix rule. The arrangement and the 2008 start are the article's. Québec's older M-prefixed motorcycle plates (M-12345, M-B1234, MBC 123) are still revalidated per the article and are deliberately NOT authored: no primary dates them and L4 owns the pre-2000 world.
How numbers are issued
10001A upward per the article's issuance record

Legal basis and sources

  1. Règlement art. 100 (the M-or-no-prefix rule, verbatim above) and art. 7.2 §2 (motorcycles, mopeds and motorized homes ≤ 3 000 kg are eligible for a personalized plate) https://www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fr/document/rc/C-24.2,%20r.%2029
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Quebec

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-qc-motorcycle-2008. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Québec's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-qc \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-qc-motorcycle-2008")'