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Switzerland license plate: Motorfahrrad

Issued today 1978 to today. Moped plates, issued by Bundesamt für Strassen (ASTRA) / kantonale Strassenverkehrsämter. One of 17 Switzerland license plates.

Switzerland license plate, Motorfahrrad (1978 to today), sample LU 217047
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999999, for example LU 217047 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Canton letters and number read normally; the live part is the vignette, a fresh insurance sticker each year keeps a Swiss moped legal. The binding is the loosest anywhere: one number may serve several mopeds of the same keeper at once.

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

Years issued
1978 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Moped: insurance/registration plates for mopeds (NL/DE small plates). Issued for moped.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFF00
Size
100 × 140 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Art. 94's present wording dates from 1 January 2012 (AS 2011 4941). THE OWNER-BINDING IS SHARPEST HERE: Art. 94 Abs. 3 lets the SAME plate number be entered in the Fahrzeugausweise of several mopeds of the same keeper in the same canton, and Abs. 4 lets it move to a substitute moped for up to 30 days without any authorisation at all.
Separators
letters in the upper third, number in the lower part (Art. 94 Abs. 6), a line break, not a printed point

Legal basis and sources

  1. VZV Art. 90 (a moped is admitted with its Fahrzeugausweis, the plate named in it and a valid insurance vignette); Art. 94 Abs. 1-6 (issuing canton, one number reusable across several mopeds of the same keeper, 30-day... https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1976/2423_2423_2423/de
  2. VVV Art. 35 Abs. 1-4 (the vignette IS the insurance proof; design per Anhang 3; last two digits of the issue year plus an individual number; placed in the upper third of the plate; minimum cover CHF 2 million), Art.... https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1959/1271_1321_1317/de

This plate in your app

The series id is ch-motorfahrrad. 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-motorfahrrad")'
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