Italy license plate: Motorcycle 1993

Retired Documented 1993 to 1999. Motorcycle plates, issued by Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti. One of 20 Italy license plates.

Italy license plate, Motorcycle 1993 (documented 1993 to 1999), sample YJ 57109

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99999, for example YJ 57109 (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 1993 to 1999; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
165 × 165 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE 1993 MOTORCYCLE SERIES, two letters, the emblem, five digits, on the same 165 mm square the 1959 regolamento used.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Appendice XII lett. c) as enacted: 'targa dei motoveicoli (fig. III.4/e): riporta, nell'ordine, due caratteri alfabetici, il marchio ufficiale della Repubblica italiana e cinque caratteri numerici'; art. 258 c. 1... https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=19940101

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is it-motorcycle-1993. 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-motorcycle-1993")'