Poland license plate: Motorcycle

Issued today 2006 to today. Motorcycle plates for motorcycle, tractor, and quadricycle, issued by Ministerstwo Infrastruktury. One of 17 Poland license plates.

Poland license plate, Motorcycle (2006 to today), sample LA 6606

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 9999, for example LA 6606 (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
2006 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle, tractor, and quadricycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
190 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
MOTORCYCLE PLATES, and the class carries more than motorcycles: § 26 ust. 1 pkt 2 puts agricultural tractors and the "samochodowy inny" L6e and L7e quadricycles on the same 190 x 150 mm two-row plate, so a Polish tractor wears a motorcycle plate unless it happens to have a car-plate recess (ust.
How numbers are issued
§ 30 ust. 2 pkt 3. The vehicle wyróżnik is ALWAYS four characters whatever the prefix length, which is the structural difference from the car series and the reason the prefix boundary here is resolved by total length rather than by the third character.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 26 ust. 1 pkt 2 (motorcycle plates also carry agricultural tractors and L6e/L7e), § 27 ust. 2, § 30 ust. 2 pkt 3, § 33; załącznik nr 12 Rysunek 1 (190 x 150 mm) and Rysunek 8. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2024/1709/text/O/D20241709.pdf
  2. Dz. U. 2017 poz. 2355 § 57 pkt 2: § 31 ust. 2 pkt 3 lit. a tiret trzecie-ósme, the six added motorcycle layouts, enter into force 1 July 2018. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2017/2355/text/O/D20172355.pdf
  3. api.sejm.gov.pl https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2006/489/text/O/D20060489.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is pl-motorcycle. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Poland's series:

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