San Marino license plate: Red Cross CRS

Issued today Documented since 1989. Government plates for car, van, and ambulance, issued by Ufficio Registro Automezzi, Repubblica di San Marino. One of 19 San Marino license plates.

San Marino license plate, Red Cross CRS (documented since 1989), sample CRS 968

Format, years and the law

Format
CRS 999, for example CRS 968 (9 any digit)

CRS is the Croce Rossa Sammarinese, San Marino's own Red Cross, in red on white, a colour scheme no other current series in the Republic is allowed to wear.

CRS
Croce Rossa Sammarinese (Sammarinese Red Cross)

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

Years issued
Documented since 1989; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car, van, and ambulance.
Colours
Characters #CC0000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
390 × 120 mm · every country's size
About this plate
SAMMARINESE RED CROSS. The red-on-white scheme is shared with no other current San Marino series.
About its years
Unusually, this series is created by the ENABLING ACT itself rather than by a decree under it, Legge 23/1989 art. 13, which otherwise deals with where plates are mounted.
Format notes
Legge 23/1989 art. 13: vehicles of the Croce Rossa Sammarinese entered in a dedicated register carry plates on the Decreto 151/1986 model "con i numeri di immatricolazione e la sigla CRS di colore rosso." Both the sigla AND the digits are red, unlike the diplomatic series where only the sigla is. No digit count is stated; \d{1,3} is a practical bound.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Legge 10 marzo 1989 n. 23 art. 13 https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/archivio-leggi-decreti-e-regolamenti/documento17020838.html

This plate in your app

The series id is sm-redcross-crs. 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-redcross-crs")'