Vermont license plate: Motorcycle

Issued today Documented since 1990. Motorcycle plates, issued by Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, Vermont Agency of Transportation. One of 7 Vermont license plates.

Vermont (United States) license plate, Motorcycle (documented since 1990), sample FZ633

Format, years and the law

Format
LL999, for example FZ633 (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 1990; 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.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #006B3C
Size
7 × 4 in (178 × 102 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
MOTORCYCLE. The character-budget evidence here is better than the size evidence, which is the reverse of the usual situation: Vermont's own DMV form states a six-character maximum for motorcycles, motor-driven cycles and small trailers, while no instrument states a plate dimension for any Vermont plate at all.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 304(a): size, shape and characters as the Commissioner may determine, the authority for a reduced-size motorcycle plate with its own grammar https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/23/007/00304
  2. Vermont DMV form VD-017, Special (Vanity) Plate Application: 'Motor Driven Cycle, Motorcycle, and small Trailer plates are limited to a maximum of (6) characters', an official character budget for this class https://dmv.vermont.gov/sites/dmv/files/documents/VD-017-Personalized_Plate.pdf
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Vermont

This plate in your app

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

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