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Italy license plate: Motorcycle 1999

Issued today Documented since 1999. Motorcycle plates, issued by Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti. One of 20 Italy license plates.

Italy license plate, Motorcycle 1999 (documented since 1999), sample MK 657 ZF
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999 LL, for example MK 657 ZF (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
Documented since 1999; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
177 × 177 mm · every country's size
About this plate
D.P.R. 355/1998 rewrote Appendice XII lett. c) so that a motorcycle plate carries "tre caratteri numerici e due caratteri alfabetici", the car grammar, replacing the enacted "cinque caratteri numerici". The consolidated regolamento in force in 2026 still reads that way. But every non-primary description of Italian motorcycle plates, it.wikipedia included, says the second row is FIVE DIGITS, and none of them cites anything. Art. 257 c. 2 supplies a lawful mechanism by which both could be true, the Minister may set a different character succession by decree without amending the appendix, and no such decree was located. 5's 1 January 1999); if the five-digit shape is the one actually issued, this series' start is unaffected but its format claim moves to the 1993 entry.
About the format
The pattern shows the APPENDIX shape (two letters, three digits, two letters).

Legal basis and sources

  1. Appendice XII lett. c) as amended in 1998: '((c) targa dei motoveicoli (fig. III 4/e): riporta nell'ordine, una zona rettangolare a sinistra dove, su fondo blu, è impressa in giallo ... la corona di stelle ... la... https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=20260802
  2. the same lett. c) BEFORE the amendment: 'due caratteri alfabetici, il marchio ufficiale della Repubblica italiana e cinque caratteri numerici', proof that the 1998 amendment deliberately replaced the five-digit tail https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=19980101
  3. art. 258 c. 1 lett. e-bis): 'targhe di immatricolazioni dei motoveicoli: 177 mm X 177 mm' https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.del.presidente.della.repubblica:1992-12-16;495~art258
  4. art. 257 c. 2, the Minister's power to set 'una successione ed un impiego di caratteri alfanumerici diversi da quelli indicati' in Appendice XII https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.del.presidente.della.repubblica:1992-12-16;495~art257

Before and after

Italy license plate, Motorcycle 1993 (documented 1993 to 1999) It replaced Motorcycle 1993 documented 1993 to 1999

This plate in your app

The series id is it-motorcycle-1999. 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-1999")'
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