France license plate: SIV motorcycle
Issued today 2009 to today. Motorcycle plates, issued by Ministère de l'intérieur. One of 17 France license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LL-999-LL, for exampleJK-320-MY(L is any letter, 9 any digit)Deliberately undecodable: a motorcycle draws its AA-123-AA from the same national counter as every car, so nothing in the string betrays two wheels, the opposite of the Dutch system, where the first letter announces the category. Only the plate's size gives it away.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2009 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
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 210 × 130 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- MOTORCYCLES. The NUMBER is identical to a car's, so a French motorcycle registration is not distinguishable from a car's by string alone, the exact opposite of the Netherlands, where the first letter encodes the category.
Legal basis and sources
- annexe VII A, motorcycles take the ordinary definitive number https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000030801732
- art. R. 317-8 I: single rear plate for motocyclettes, tricycles, quadricycles non carrossés, cyclomoteurs https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000042266062
- art. 7 (two-line layout per annexes 3 à 4 bis) and art. 11 bis (the 1 July 2015 / 1 July 2017 replacement rule) https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000020237128
This plate in your app
The series id is fr-siv-motorcycle. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of France's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/fr \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "fr-siv-motorcycle")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fr/fr-siv-motorcycle.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fr/fr-siv-motorcycle/template.svg
