Connecticut license plate: Motorcycle

Issued today 2015 to today. Motorcycle plates, issued by Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (CT DMV). One of 7 Connecticut license plates.

Connecticut (United States) license plate, Motorcycle (2015 to today), sample 00 TSDM

Format, years and the law

Format
00 LLLL, for example 00 TSDM (L is any letter)

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

Years issued
2015 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
Size
7 × 4 in (178 × 102 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
MOTORCYCLE. The 00·ABCD block is reported to be SHARED with the Classic Vehicle series, two different classes drawing from one serial space, which means a serial alone does not determine the class and a parse API must return both candidates.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Connecticut
  2. § 14-21b(a) scopes the reflectorized-plate duty to 'passenger, combination and commercial registrations and other registrations as the commissioner deems feasible', the statutory reason motorcycles may sit outside the... https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_246.htm

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ct-motorcycle. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Connecticut's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ct \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ct-motorcycle")'