# Portugal license plate: Moped municipal

> The Portugal moped municipal license plate: format 9-LLL-99-99, for example 3-LSH-15-55, from 2006, no longer issued, moped and motorcycle.

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Part of [Portugal license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal) (13 registration series).

![Portugal license plate, Moped municipal (from 2006, no longer issued)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pt/pt-moped-municipal-2006/portugal-license-plate-moped-municipal.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `9-LLL-99-99` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2006 → today |
| Class | moped |
| Issued for | moped, motorcycle |
| Colours | background #F9B700; characters #000000 |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `pt-moped-municipal-2006` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/moped-municipal-2006) |

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.

Sources:

- [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 concelho.](https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2006/06/111a00/40524060.pdf)

## 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.

## Other moped plates here

- [Moped](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/moped-2006) (2006 to today)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pt/pt-moped-municipal-2006.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/portugal?series=pt-moped-municipal-2006
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/pt` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "pt-moped-municipal-2006"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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