San Marino license plate: Prova

Issued today Documented since 2007. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Ufficio Registro Automezzi, Repubblica di San Marino. One of 19 San Marino license plates.

San Marino license plate, Prova (documented since 2007), sample PROVA 893

Format, years and the law

Format
PROVA 999, for example PROVA 893 (9 any digit)

PROVA is simply Italian for "test". The plate belongs to the trade, not the vehicle, "trasferibile da veicolo a veicolo", says the instrument, moving from car to car as each goes out on trial.

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

Years issued
Documented since 2007; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
390 × 120 mm · every country's size
About its years
The current SPECIFICATION dates from Decreto Delegato 23 luglio 2007 n. 87, which replaces art. 3 of Legge 19 settembre 1973 n. 31. The test- plate REGIME is much older, Legge 31/1973, published 24 September 1973, so 2007 dates this plate's design, not the institution. The 1973 statute was located but its plate article was read only through the 2007 replacement, so no earlier series is asserted.
Format notes
three digits for cars, two for motorcycles (art. 1)

Legal basis and sources

  1. Decreto Delegato 23 luglio 2007 n. 87 art. 1, replacing art. 3 of Legge 19 settembre 1973 n. 31 https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17023571.html

This plate in your app

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