Portugal license plate: Military
Issued today 2005 to today. Military plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I. P. (IMT). One of 13 Portugal license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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MG-99-99, for exampleMG-23-19(9 any digit)MG is one of the Army's letter pairs, the Exército also runs ME and MX, while AP marks the Navy and AM the Air Force. What the letters abbreviate has never been published; the branch mapping is the whole known decode.
The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- 2005 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Military: armed-forces registration systems. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Legal basis and sources
- pt.wikipedia.org https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matr%C3%ADculas_de_autom%C3%B3veis_em_Portugal
- DL 54/2005 art. 8.º n.º 2, the civil register treats military entities as external applicants for supplementary numbers, which is the primary evidence that a separate military register exists https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2005/03/044a00/18921897.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is pt-military. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Portugal's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/pt \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "pt-military")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pt/pt-military.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pt/pt-military/template.svg
