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Latvia license plate: Standard

Issued today 2004 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by CSDD. One of 15 Latvia license plates.

Latvia license plate, Standard (2004 to today), sample FX-9713
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-9999, for example FX-9713 (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
2004 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Latvia license plate, Standard 280×200 mm (2004 to today)

    Standard 280×200 mm

    standard · 280 × 200 mm

About this plate
THE CURRENT LATVIAN PLATE, "AA-1234", and the hyphen is in the instrument, not in typography.
Separators
THE HYPHEN IS STATUTORY AND TYPE-SPECIFIC. 7. pielikums 2.3, verbatim: "A tipa numura zīmēs burti no cipariem atdalīti ar horizontālu svītru." The horizontal stroke is prescribed for the A type ONLY; the B and C blanks carry the same mark with no stroke prescribed.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 7. pielikums 2.2 (two letters and one to four digits forming 1-9999), 2.3 (the A-type hyphen), 1.1-1.2 (A and B dimensions), 5.4 (reflective coating); punkts 7 (a mark is assigned on first registration in Latvia) https://likumi.lv/ta/id/222145-transportlidzeklu-registracijas-noteikumi
  2. MK 446 punkts 7 and punkts 82, LVS 20:2003 made binding from 1 May 2004, the dated event this series' start rests on https://likumi.lv/ta/id/88052/redakcijas-datums/2004/05/01/
  3. CSDD: plates are made to LVS 20:2009 https://www.csdd.lv/numura-zimju-apraksts/vispareja-informacija-2
  4. 9. panta otrā daļa, two plates on a mechanical vehicle https://likumi.lv/ta/id/45467-celu-satiksmes-likums

Before and after

Latvia license plate, Standard 1993 (1993 to 2004) It replaced Standard 1993 1993 to 2004

This plate in your app

The series id is lv-standard. 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-standard")'
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