Italy license plate: Moped

Issued today Documented since 2006. Moped plates, issued by Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti. One of 20 Italy license plates.

Italy license plate, Moped (documented since 2006), sample TRC386

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL999, for example TRC386 (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
Moped: insurance/registration plates for mopeds (NL/DE small plates). Issued for moped.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE ITALIAN MOPED PLATE IS OWNER-BOUND, and it is the only Italian series that is. Art. 97 c. 2 of the codice: "La targa è personale e abbinata a un solo veicolo", retained by the holder on sale; art. 248 c. 3 of the regolamento: "La targa è strettamente legata al titolare, che la applica solo al veicolo identificato nel certificato di circolazione di cui risulta intestatario. Chi risulta intestatario di più veicoli deve conseguentemente munirsi di un corrispondente numero di certificati di circolazione e di targhe." PREDECESSOR, NOT MODELLED: before D.P.R. 6 marzo 2006 n. 153 the same vehicles carried a "contrassegno di identificazione" whose art. 250 read only "porta in rilievo su fondo bianco retroriflettente una combinazione di cifre e lettere", no count, no arrangement, nothing quantifiable, and which was bound to the PERSON so loosely that art. 248 c. 4 let one holder ride several different mopeds on it ("Lo stesso contrassegno permette all'intestatario di circolare con differenti ciclomotori").
How numbers are issued
set by the Dipartimento per i trasporti terrestri (art. 250 c.

Legal basis and sources

  1. artt. 248-251 as amended: art. 248 c. 1 (the art. 97 plate has art. 250's characteristics and an alphanumeric code), c. 3 (owner binding), art. 250 c. 1 (six alphanumeric characters, white ground, black characters,... https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=20260802
  2. art. 97 c. 1 lett. b): a moped needs 'una targa, che identifica l'intestatario del certificato di circolazione'; c. 2: 'La targa è personale e abbinata a un solo veicolo' https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.legislativo:1992-04-30;285!vig=~art97

This plate in your app

The series id is it-moped-2006. 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-moped-2006")'