Iceland license plate: Off-road

Issued today Documented since 2003. Standard plates for atv, snowmobile, and machine, issued by Samgöngustofa (Icelandic Transport Authority). One of 11 Iceland license plates.

Iceland license plate, Off-road (documented since 2003), sample AJ-792

Format, years and the law

Format
LL-999, for example AJ-792 (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
Documented since 2003; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for atv, snowmobile, and machine.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #CC0000
Size
240 × 130 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE OFF-ROAD PLATE, the INVERSE of the trade plate below (red ground with white characters, against red ground with black characters), and the two are easily confused. For tracked and off-highway vehicles not approved for ordinary road use.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 22. gr.: red ground with white border, characters and bandstrik for torfærutæki. https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/751-2003

This plate in your app

The series id is is-offroad-2003. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Iceland's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/is \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "is-offroad-2003")'