New Jersey license plate: Motorcycle

Issued today Documented since 2009. Motorcycle plates, issued by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJ MVC). One of 11 New Jersey license plates.

New Jersey (United States) license plate, Motorcycle (documented since 2009), sample 9SLP9

Format, years and the law

Format
9LLL9, for example 9SLP9 (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
Documented since 2009; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.

Legal basis and sources

  1. NJ MVC lists motorcycles among the vehicle types with their own plate handling https://www.nj.gov/mvc/vehicles/standplates.htm
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Jersey

This plate in your app

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

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