Mexico license plate: Federal transfer motorcycle

Issued today 2016 to today. Temporary plates for motorcycle, issued by Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT). One of 43 Mexico license plates.

Mexico license plate, Federal transfer motorcycle (2016 to today), sample MT567C

Format, years and the law

Format
MT999L, for example MT567C (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
2016 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for motorcycle.
Size
215 × 134 mm · every country's size
About this plate
MOTORCYCLE TRASLADO NACIONAL. One of only two Mexican series with a fixed literal prefix (the other is CDMX DM), and the cleanest example in this file of Apéndice C constraining what Tabla C leaves generic.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Tabla C row 1 'Traslado Nacional (Para Motocicletas), AA000A' https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016
  2. Apéndice C 'TRASLADO NACIONAL MOTOCICLETAS, MT001A - MT999Z' + the NOTA fixing 'MT' https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016

This plate in your app

The series id is mx-federal-transfer-motorcycle-2016. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Mexico's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/mx \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "mx-federal-transfer-motorcycle-2016")'