Liechtenstein license plate: Standard

Format, years and the law

Format

LL 99999 (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 1925; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.

Vehicle class

Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.

Colours

Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000

Size

300 × 80 mm · every country's size

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  Standard 300×160 mm

  standard · 300 × 160 mm

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  Standard 500×110 mm

  standard · 500 × 110 mm

About this plate

THE MAIN SERIES: black ground, white script, FL plus an ascending number, binding to the Halter. Modelled as ONE continuous series from 1925 because the defining grammar, FL plus a number, allocated to the owner, has not changed since the 1924 decree; what changed across the century is dimensions, materials, the arms and the colour's legal basis, all of which are design facts carried above rather than new series.

About its years

1925, NOT 1924, the instrument-date rule in its clearest form. The Vollziehungs-Verordnung is dated 4 December 1924 and was published on 6 December 1924, and its Art. 30 Abs. 1 is what mandates the FL plate. But the decree's own commencement clause reads "Diese Verordnung tritt am 1. Januar 1925 in Kraft." No FL plate could lawfully be issued under it before 1 January 1925.

How numbers are issued

VZV Art. 73 Abs. 2, ascending order, with number spaces split per colour, per special marking and between the motorcar and motorcycle families. No date and no geography is encoded.

Separators

The gap between FL and the digits is occupied by the SMALL STATE ARMS, not by punctuation (Art. 74 Abs. 1). On the Hochformat rear plate the digits sit on a second line instead.

Legal basis and sources

1. LGBl. 1924 Nr. 20, Vollziehungs-Verordnung vom 4. Dezember 1924, Art. 30 Abs. 1 (FL + Kontrollnummer, two plates) and the commencement clause 'Diese Verordnung tritt am 1. Januar 1925 in Kraft' https://www.gesetze.li/chrono/html/1924020000
2. VZV Art. 71 Abs. 1 Bst. a (colours), Art. 72 Abs. 3 Bst. a-b (dimensions), Art. 73 (FL + numbering), Art. 74 Abs. 1-2 (layout), Art. 76 Abs. 1 (owner binding) https://www.gesetze.li/konso/1978.020
3. Wappengesetz Art. 12 Abs. 2, the small state arms are used 'auf Kontrollschildern für Motorfahrzeuge' https://www.gesetze.li/konso/html/1982058000

Before and after

It replaced L 1915 to 1925