San Marino license plate: Motorcycle

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

San Marino license plate, Motorcycle (documented since 1993), sample L742

Format, years and the law

Format
L999, for example L742 (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
Documented since 1993; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #005387 Background #FFFFFF
Size
165 × 165 mm · every country's size
About this plate
MOTORCYCLES: a square 165x165 mm plate carrying a letter and THREE digits. Modelled as one continuous series across the 2022 redesign because the plate size did not change; the character metrics and the RAL 5017 colour are dated design facts inside it. Contrast the car series, which IS split, because its front plate shrank.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Decreto 109/1993 art. 1: 165x165 mm, letter + three digits https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/archivio-leggi-decreti-e-regolamenti/documento17021492.html
  2. DD 132/2022 art. 2 (metrics) and art. 3 (alphabet) https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17134662.html

This plate in your app

The series id is sm-motorcycle-1993. 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-motorcycle-1993")'