Italy license plate: Machine self-propelled

Issued today Documented since 1993. Agricultural plates for machine, issued by Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti. One of 20 Italy license plates.

Italy license plate, Machine self-propelled (documented since 1993), sample GP L 576

Format, years and the law

Format
LL L 999, for example GP L 576 (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 1993; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Agricultural: farm vehicles/equipment where separately serialized. Issued for machine.
Colours
Characters #CC0000 Background #FFCC00
Size
165 × 165 mm · every country's size
About this plate
MACCHINE OPERATRICI SEMOVENTI, self-propelled operating machines (excavators, loaders, road plant).

Legal basis and sources

  1. Appendice XII lett. e): 'targa delle macchine operatrici semoventi (fig. III.4/g): riporta, nell'ordine, due caratteri alfabetici, il marchio ufficiale della Repubblica italiana, un carattere alfabetico e tre... https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=20260802
  2. art. 114 c. 4 of the codice, the registration duty for macchine operatrici https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.legislativo:1992-04-30;285!vig=~art114

This plate in your app

The series id is it-machine-selfpropelled. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Italy's series:

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