San Marino license plate: Agricultural MA

Issued today Documented since 1990. Agricultural plates for tractor, machine, and trailer, issued by Ufficio Registro Automezzi, Repubblica di San Marino. One of 19 San Marino license plates.

San Marino license plate, Agricultural MA (documented since 1990), sample MA 1779

Format, years and the law

Format
MA 9999, for example MA 1779 (9 any digit)

MA stands for Macchine Agricole: farm machinery on San Marino's only yellow plate. Its sibling MO series, works machinery, came from the same decree wearing the opposite scheme, green on white.

MA
Macchine Agricole (agricultural machinery)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented since 1990; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Agricultural: farm vehicles/equipment where separately serialized. Issued for tractor, machine, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFD700
Size
165 × 165 mm · every country's size
How numbers are issued
Decreto 47/1990 art. 2: numbering adopted from 1010 for macchine agricole

Legal basis and sources

  1. Decreto 19 aprile 1990 n. 47 artt. 1-2 https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17020997.html

This plate in your app

The series id is sm-agricultural-ma. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of San Marino's series:

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