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Monaco license plate: Resident Z

Issued today Documented since 1978. Standard plates for car and van, issued by Service des Titres de Circulation, Principauté de Monaco. One of 17 Monaco license plates.

Monaco license plate, Resident Z (documented since 1978), sample Z162
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Format, years and the law

Format
Z999, for example Z162 (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 1978; 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 and van.
Colours
Characters #5B9BD5 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE Z SERIES, a residency-qualified block, not a vehicle-type one. It is issued to natural persons who qualify under Code de la route art. 102 by showing title to or a lease of a dwelling in the Principality. This is the closest thing Monaco has to an encoded fact about the keeper.
About its years
The Z reservation appears in the current art. 6. Whether it is original to 1978 was not confirmed against the original printing, so 1978 is an UPPER bound rather than a verified start.
Format notes
Art. 6: "la lettre Z étant réservée aux personnes physiques visées par l'article 102 […] justifiant en nom personnel d'un titre de propriété ou d'un bail à loyer concernant un logement en Principauté."

Legal basis and sources

  1. AM 78-5 art. 6, the Z reservation https://legimonaco.mc/tnc/arrete-ministeriel/1978/01-09-78-5/
  2. Code de la route art. 102, the registration eligibility conditions https://legimonaco.mc/code/code-route/

This plate in your app

The series id is mc-resident-z. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Monaco's series:

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