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Portugal license plate: Moped municipal

Retired From 2006, no longer issued. Moped plates for moped and motorcycle, issued by Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I. P. (IMT). One of 13 Portugal license plates.

Portugal license plate, Moped municipal (from 2006, no longer issued), sample 3-LSH-15-55
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Format, years and the law

Format
9-LLL-99-99, for example 3-LSH-15-55 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The three letters name the concelho whose câmara municipal issued the plate, and only that: the law froze the number on any sale or move, so the code records where a moped's life began, not where it has spent the last twenty years.

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
From 2006, no longer issued. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Moped: insurance/registration plates for mopeds (NL/DE small plates). Issued for moped and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
About this plate
Worth keeping for a parse API because these plates are still on the road and nothing else in the Portuguese system looks remotely like them. One human detail preserved from the instrument, because it explains why the codes cannot be treated as a live geography: art. 2.º n.º 1 b) freezes the number when the owner moves to another municipality or sells to someone in one, so the municipal code records where the moped was FIRST registered and may have been wrong about its whereabouts for twenty years.
About the format
THE ONLY PORTUGUESE PLATE THAT EVER ENCODED A MUNICIPALITY. DL 106/2006 art. 2.º n.º 1 a), in substance: the number is a group of three letters standing for the CÂMARA MUNICIPAL that registered the vehicle, preceded by a per-series order number starting at 1, and followed by two groups of two digits giving the order of registration.

Legal basis and sources

  1. DL 106/2006 art. 2.º n.º 1 a)-e) and ANEXO II Modelos 1-2: the transitional municipal moped number, its two grounds, the retroreflectivity requirement, and the rule that the number survives the owner's move to another... https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2006/06/111a00/40524060.pdf

This plate in your app

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