Louisiana license plate: Motorcycle

Issued today 1995 to today. Motorcycle plates, issued by Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV), Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Public Safety Services. One of 7 Louisiana license plates.

Louisiana (United States) license plate, Motorcycle (1995 to today), sample 471396

Format, years and the law

Format
999999, for example 471396 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
1995 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
About this plate
LOUISIANA MOTORCYCLE. The two facts worth having are both from the policy and neither is about the number: a Louisiana motorcycle plate is lawful on a three-wheeler, and motorcycle plates transfer between owners while automobile plates do not.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Louisiana OMV Policy 153.00, 'Motorcycle Plates', authority R.S. 32:781, 47:451, 47:465, 32:1, the three-wheel motorcycle definition, the four-year registration period, the $12 fee, and the transferability rule that... https://public.powerdms.com/ladpsc/documents/366103
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Louisiana

This plate in your app

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

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