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Italy license plate: Repeater

Issued today Documented since 1993. Trailer plates, issued by Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti. One of 20 Italy license plates.

Italy license plate, Repeater (documented since 1993), sample QNR321RG
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLR999LL, for example QNR321RG (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 1993; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Trailer: trailers and semi-trailers where separately serialized. Issued for trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFCC00
Size
486 × 109 mm · every country's size
  • Italy license plate, Repeater 336×202 mm (documented since 1993)

    Repeater 336×202 mm

    trailer · 336 × 202 mm

  • Italy license plate, Repeater 340×109 mm (documented since 1993)

    Repeater 340×109 mm

    trailer · 340 × 109 mm

About this plate
THE TARGA RIPETITRICE, an owner-filled yellow plate that repeats the towing vehicle's mark, carried by carrelli appendice, agricultural trailers and trailed operating machines. Three facts make it worth its own entry rather than a footnote: it is the ONLY Italian plate with no marchio; it is the only one whose characters are applied by the owner rather than the State; and it contains the single best piece of decode trivia in Italian plate law, Appendice XII comma 3: "Nel caso in cui la targa del veicolo traente contenga la parola Roma essa viene riportata sulla targa ripetitrice mediante la sigla RM." Rome's provincial plates spelled the city out in full, and the repeater plate is where the abbreviation had to be legislated.
About the format
Appendice XII lett. h): "targa ripetitrice per carrelli appendice: riporta, nell'ordine, due caratteri alfabetici, la lettera 'R', e sei caratteri alfanumerici". Lett. i) gives five alphanumerics for agricultural trailers and trailed operating machines. As enacted in 1992 both were narrower, lett. h) read "tre caratteri numerici e due caratteri alfabetici", and D.P.R. 610/1996 widened them, which is why one open series is modelled rather than two.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Appendice XII lett. h) and i) and comma 3 in full; art. 258 c. 1 lett. c) and d); art. 260 c. 1 lett. a) and c. 2 https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=20260802
  2. art. 100 c. 4: 'I carrelli appendice, quando sono agganciati ad una motrice, devono essere muniti posteriormente di una targa ripetitrice dei dati di immatricolazione della motrice stessa' https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.legislativo:1992-04-30;285!vig=~art100

This plate in your app

The series id is it-repeater. 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-repeater")'
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