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Italy license plate: Provincial motorcycle

Retired Documented 1959 to 1996. Motorcycle plates, issued by Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti. One of 20 Italy license plates.

Italy license plate, Provincial motorcycle (documented 1959 to 1996), sample RZ 609917
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999999, for example RZ 609917 (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 1959 to 1996; 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 #0000A0 Background #FFFFFF
Size
165 × 165 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE BLUE-ON-WHITE MOTORCYCLE PLATE, and the one genuinely surprising colour fact in Italian plate law: while cars carried white on black, motorcycles carried BLUE on white under the same 1959 regolamento. The 165 x 165 mm square survived the 1993 reform unchanged and did not grow until 1999.

Legal basis and sources

  1. art. 322: 'La targa di riconoscimento per i motoveicoli è ... di forma quadrata, con il lato di mm. 165 ... Essa porta in rilievo, in carattere blu su fondo bianco, il contrassegno d'immatricolazione del motoveicolo... https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19590630&codiceRedaz=059U0420&dataVigenza=19920101

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The series id is it-provincial-motorcycle-1959. 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-provincial-motorcycle-1959")'
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