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San Marino license plate: Standard 2022

Issued today Documented since 2022. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Ufficio Registro Automezzi, Repubblica di San Marino. One of 19 San Marino license plates.

The current plate split from its 1993 ancestor for one reason: the front plate shrank to 300×100 mm to fit sports cars with shallow recesses, while the rear stayed 390×120, the same car now legally carries two different plate sizes at once.

San Marino license plate, Standard 2022 (documented since 2022), sample U0847
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Format, years and the law

Format
L9999, for example U0847 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Still letter-plus-counter, but the alphabet is curated: D, E, I, O, Q and R are skipped, some too easily misread, others already claimed by the export and trailer series, and U was only admitted in 2022, as the plate's twentieth letter.

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

Years issued
Documented since 2022; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #005387 Background #FFFFFF
Size
390 × 120 mm · every country's size
  • San Marino license plate, Standard 2022 300×100 mm (documented since 2022)

    Standard 2022 300×100 mm

    standard · 300 × 100 mm

About this plate
THE CURRENT ORDINARY SERIES. Same letter+four-digit grammar as 1993, but a smaller FRONT plate (300x100 mm), a twentieth letter (U), and RAL 5017 blue from 1 July 2023. NOTE the motorcycle and moped series below are NOT split at 2022, because their plate SIZE did not change, only character metrics and the colour, both of which are dated design facts within one series. That asymmetry is deliberate and is the §2.3 test applied consistently.
About its years
16 September 2022, the date DD 132/2022 was made, published and came into force, all three being the same day per the archive's metadata. THE SMALL FRONT PLATE IS LAWFUL FROM THAT DATE. It is tempting to date this series to 1 July 2023 because that is the date most often reported, but art. 9(2) makes 1 July 2023 the date the blue becomes RAL 5017, a colour date applying to ALL series, and art. 9(1) makes 30 June 2023 the last day for OLD stock. Neither is this series' start. See header finding 3.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Decreto Delegato 16 settembre 2022 n. 132, artt. 2, 3, 9: front 300x100 and rear 390x120, the 20-letter alphabet, the run-off and the RAL 5017 date https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17134662.html
  2. ratification by the Consiglio Grande e Generale, 17 October 2022, Delibera n. 5 https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17135320.html
  3. errata corrige of 26 October 2022, corrects two entries in the art. 8 price table only; it does NOT touch dimensions, colour or dates https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/documento17135471.html

Before and after

San Marino license plate, Standard 1993 (1993 to 2023) It replaced Standard 1993 1993 to 2023

This plate in your app

The series id is sm-standard-2022. 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-standard-2022")'
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