Switzerland license plate: Light motor yellow
Issued today Documented since 1977. Moped plates for moped and quadricycle, issued by Bundesamt für Strassen (ASTRA) / kantonale Strassenverkehrsämter. One of 17 Switzerland license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LL 999999(L is any letter, 9 any digit)Canton code and number in miniature on the yellow 100 × 140 mm plate for Kleinmotorräder and light motor vehicles. Yellow alone won't identify it, the moped plate is yellow too. This one carries the two coats of arms; the moped's carries an insurance vignette.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- Documented since 1977; 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 and quadricycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFF00 - Size
- 100 × 140 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- Neither predecessor wording was retrievable, so neither is described and no earlier series is invented, the 2013 dimension change in particular is a candidate for a pre-2013 series once AS 2012 7149's own text is read.
Legal basis and sources
- VZV Art. 82 Abs. 1 lit. e (yellow ground, black script, for Kleinmotorräder und Leichtmotorfahrzeuge, 'Fassung gemäss Anhang 1 Ziff. II 10 der V vom 19. Juni 1995 ..., in Kraft seit 1. Okt. 1995 (AS 1995 4425)'); Art.... https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1976/2423_2423_2423/de
This plate in your app
The series id is ch-lightmotor-yellow. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Switzerland's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ch \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ch-lightmotor-yellow")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ch/ch-lightmotor-yellow.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ch/ch-lightmotor-yellow/template.svg