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Iceland license plate: Oil

Issued today Documented since 2006. Standard plates for truck, machine, and bus, issued by Samgöngustofa (Icelandic Transport Authority). One of 11 Iceland license plates.

Iceland license plate, Oil (documented since 2006), sample KB-682
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-999, for example KB-682 (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 2006; 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 truck, machine, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #C8A415
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE OIL PLATE, dark yellow with black characters, for vehicles running on tax-exempt diesel and restricted to stationary or special use.

Legal basis and sources

  1. reglugerð nr. 307/2006, 15 March 2006: adds 19. gr. 2. mgr. c, the dark-yellow plate for special-use vehicles exempt from the oil levy. THE DATING INSTRUMENT. https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/307-2006
  2. reglugerd.is https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/751-2003

This plate in your app

The series id is is-oil-2006. 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-oil-2006")'
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