San Marino license plate: Moped

Issued today Documented since 1993. Moped plates, issued by Ufficio Registro Automezzi, Repubblica di San Marino. One of 19 San Marino license plates.

San Marino license plate, Moped (documented since 1993), sample F915

Format, years and the law

Format
L999, for example F915 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Contrary to a persistent claim, mopeds have no letter block of their own: the letter is drawn from the same ordinary alphabet as every car plate, no instrument has ever reserved a moped letter.

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

Years issued
Documented since 1993; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Moped: insurance/registration plates for mopeds (NL/DE small plates). Issued for moped.
Colours
Characters #005387 Background #FFFFFF
Size
115 × 100 mm · every country's size
About this plate
CICLOMOTORI (mopeds). The current specification replaces art. 3 of Decreto 58/1993 and shares the ordinary 20-letter alphabet, there is no dedicated moped letter block in any instrument read, contrary to some secondary accounts.
About its years
Decreto 15 aprile 1993 n. 58 extended the registration obligation to ciclomotori. 39, itself repealed in 2022) and the current specification in DD 132/2022 art. 5. So 1993 is an upper bound resting on the decree's existence and date rather than on its read text.

Legal basis and sources

  1. DD 132/2022 art. 5, replacing art. 3 of Decreto 15 aprile 1993 n. 58 https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17134662.html

This plate in your app

The series id is sm-moped. 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-moped")'