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Portugal license plate: Moped

Issued today 2006 to today. Moped plates for moped, motorcycle, quadricycle, and tricycle, issued by Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I. P. (IMT). One of 13 Portugal license plates.

Portugal license plate, Moped (2006 to today), sample 78-LQ-83
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Format, years and the law

Format
99-LL-99, for example 78-LQ-83 (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
Moped: insurance/registration plates for mopeds (NL/DE small plates). Issued for moped, motorcycle, quadricycle, and tricycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
About the format
Mopeds carry the ORDINARY national number, not a series of their own, art. 3.º n.º 1 composes one number for "automóveis, motociclos, ciclomotores, triciclos e quadriciclos" together.

Legal basis and sources

  1. DL 106/2006: extends the Regulamento to ciclomotores and quadriciclos; new art. 5.º n.º 8, 'A chapa de matrícula dos motociclos de cilindrada não superior a 50 cm3, dos ciclomotores e dos quadriciclos ... deve... https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2006/06/111a00/40524060.pdf
  2. DL 2/2020: art. 5.º n.º 6 as amended moves this class to Modelo V of the new Anexo V from the cutover date, and the preamble states the EU-band harmonisation reason. https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2020/01/00900/0000400012.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is pt-moped-2006. 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-moped-2006")'
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