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Pennsylvania license plate: Motorcycle

Issued today Documented since 2017. Motorcycle plates, issued by Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Motor Vehicles (PennDOT). One of 9 Pennsylvania license plates.

Pennsylvania (United States) license plate, Motorcycle (documented since 2017), sample 3RH22
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Format, years and the law

Format
9LL99, for example 3RH22 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
Documented since 2017; 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.
About the format
When a primary establishes which arrangement is current, this series splits and the union becomes a historic parent.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 1332(a.1): the vertical-mounting rule, the prohibition on mounting a horizontal-character plate vertically, and the $20 vertical plate https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-75-pacsa-vehicles/pa-csa-sect-75-1332.html
  2. PennDOT: 'A personal motorcycle registration plate may contain up to five letters and numbers in combination' https://www.pa.gov/en/agencies/dmv/vehicle-services/registration-plates/personalized-registration-plates.html
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Pennsylvania

This plate in your app

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

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