# Italy license plate: Motorcycle 1999

> The Italy motorcycle 1999 license plate: format LL 999 LL, for example MK 657 ZF, documented since 1999, motorcycle.

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Part of [Italy license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy) (20 registration series).

![Italy license plate, Motorcycle 1999 (documented since 1999)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/it/it-motorcycle-1999/italy-license-plate-motorcycle-1999.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LL 999 LL` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | ~1999 → today (documented from 1999; the format is likely older) |
| Class | motorcycle |
| Issued for | motorcycle |
| Plate size | 177 × 177 mm |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000; band #003399 on the left |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `it-motorcycle-1999` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/motorcycle-1999) |

Sources:

- [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 lettera I; due caratteri alfabetici, il marchio della Repubblica italiana, tre caratteri numerici e due caratteri alfabetici; una zona rettangolare a destra ...))'](https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=20260802)
- [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)
- [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)
- [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)

## 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).

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [Motorcycle 1993](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/motorcycle-1993) | documented 1993 to 1999 |

## Other motorcycle plates here

- [Motorcycle 1993](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/motorcycle-1993) (documented 1993 to 1999)
- [Provincial motorcycle](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/provincial-motorcycle-1959) (documented 1959 to 1996)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/it/it-motorcycle-1999.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/italy?series=it-motorcycle-1999
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/it` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "it-motorcycle-1999"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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