Latvia license plate: Motorcycle

Issued today Documented since 2010. Motorcycle plates for motorcycle, tricycle, and quadricycle, issued by CSDD. One of 15 Latvia license plates.

Latvia license plate, Motorcycle (documented since 2010), sample YU8757

Format, years and the law

Format
LL9999, for example YU8757 (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 since 2010; 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, tricycle, and quadricycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
240 × 130 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE MOTORCYCLE MARK on the C blank. Its smaller sibling on the F blank caps the digits at three and is a separate series.
Separators
NO HYPHEN. 2.3 prescribes the stroke for the A type only, and a motorcycle takes the C type (240 x 130 mm) or the F type.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 7. pielikums 2.2 (C type shares the car mark), 1.3 (C dimensions), 2.3 (hyphen is A-type only) https://likumi.lv/ta/id/222145-transportlidzeklu-registracijas-noteikumi
  2. 9. panta otrā daļa, motorcycles, tricycles and quadricycles carry ONE plate https://likumi.lv/ta/id/45467-celu-satiksmes-likums

This plate in your app

The series id is lv-motorcycle. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Latvia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/lv \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "lv-motorcycle")'