Latvia license plate: Trial

Issued today Documented since 2010. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by CSDD. One of 15 Latvia license plates.

Latvia license plate, Trial (documented since 2010), sample IZM674

Format, years and the law

Format
IZM999, for example IZM674 (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
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE TRIAL/EXPERIMENTAL PLATE (izmēģinājuma numura zīme). Flagged rather than forced. Its fixed IZM prefix makes it the most unambiguous mark in the Latvian system.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 7. pielikums 4.3.1-4.3.2; punkts 13.3 https://likumi.lv/ta/id/222145-transportlidzeklu-registracijas-noteikumi

This plate in your app

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