Maine license plate: Motorcycle
Issued today 2012 to today. Motorcycle plates, issued by Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV), Department of the Secretary of State. One of 7 Maine license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999 LL, for example984 AD(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2012 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#00307DBackground#FFFFFF - Size
- 7 × 4 in (178 × 102 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- MOTORCYCLE. Maine is the only state in this group whose statute acknowledges the reduced-size plate by exempting it from a stated character height rather than by delegating "such dimensions as the department deems necessary" (Florida's approach).
Legal basis and sources
- §451(4-A)(B): the express motorcycle exemption from the 3-inch character minimum https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/29-A/title29-Asec451.html
- §452(1)(B): motorcycle plates rear only https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/29-A/title29-Asec452.html
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Maine
This plate in your app
The series id is us-me-motorcycle. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Maine's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-me \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-me-motorcycle")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-me/us-me-motorcycle.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-me/us-me-motorcycle/template.svg
