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+# plates/us-or.yml — Oregon (PRD-PLATES gate L2, northwest group).
+#
+# THE ONE FACT THAT MAKES OREGON WORTH READING CAREFULLY. ORS 803.535 does not
+# describe the plate. It POINTS AT A DESIGN CONTEST: "The design of the
+# registration plates shall be that chosen by the commission from entries in
+# the contest held pursuant to chapter 572, Oregon Laws 1987." That is a
+# statutory instrument with a date, and it is the only era anchor in this
+# entire group that comes from the design provision itself rather than from a
+# collector table. Every other American state surveyed either fixes the design
+# in the statute (Montana, Wyoming, Florida) or delegates it wholesale to the
+# agency (Washington). Oregon does neither: it delegates the design to a
+# one-off 1987 public competition and then FREEZES THE RESULT IN LAW. The
+# Douglas-fir-and-mountains plate on the road today is, legally, the winning
+# entry of that contest, and it cannot change without amending ORS 803.535.
+#
+# CONSEQUENCE FOR PERIOD MODELLING: 1987 is a real, instrument-anchored LOWER
+# bound on the current base — plates cannot predate the contest that chose
+# them. The commonly repeated November 1989 first-issue date is
+# encyclopedia-grade and is recorded as such, never asserted. This is exactly
+# the discipline PRD-PLATES §9 asks for: primary-source-or-marked.
+#
+# SOURCE-ACCESS NOTE, RECORDED HONESTLY. www.oregonlegislature.gov refused TLS
+# from this environment on every attempt (curl exit 35, WebFetch ECONNRESET).
+# The ORS text below was therefore read from oregon.public.law, a third-party
+# reproduction. Oregon statutes are EDICTS OF GOVERNMENT and public domain at
+# every level (PRD-PLATES §4), so the reproduction carries the same text with
+# the same PD status — but the OFFICIAL citation is given first in every
+# source line, and re-verification against oregonlegislature.gov is an open
+# item for the verifier.
+jurisdiction: us-or
+authority:
+  name: Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services (Oregon DMV), Oregon Department of Transportation
+  url: "https://www.oregon.gov/odot/DMV/pages/vehicle/plates.aspx"
+binding: vehicle
+statute_edition: >-
+  Oregon Revised Statutes, Chapter 803 (Vehicle Title and Registration), read
+  2026-08-02 via oregon.public.law because oregonlegislature.gov was
+  TLS-unreachable from this environment. Sections read: 803.525, 803.535,
+  803.540.
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4/§7.1.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+artwork_risk:
+  posture: asserted-trademark-copyright-unresearched
+  basis: >-
+    OREGON IS NOT ON EITHER SIDE OF THE SURVEYED LEDGER, AND SAYING SO IS THE
+    HONEST ANSWER. Oregon appears NOWHERE in the standing per-state copyright
+    survey PRD-PLATES §4 works from — it is neither in the favourable column
+    (FL, CA, NC, NJ, MA, GA) nor in the adverse column (NY, AZ, PA, WA) — and
+    no {{PD-ORGov}} tag exists on Wikimedia Commons. So the DEFAULT applies:
+    a US state's works are copyrighted unless that state says otherwise
+    (17 U.S.C. §105 covers federal works only and does not extend to states).
+    What Oregon DOES say, in its own portal terms and conditions, is a
+    TRADEMARK assertion with a permission condition attached: "You may display
+    these Oregon-owned trademarks so long as the context of your use is
+    truthful and not misleading about the either services provided under that
+    trademark or the trademark's ownership." The same page runs a DMCA
+    takedown channel (egov.copyright@das.oregon.gov), which presupposes that
+    the state expects copyright claims to be actionable on its estate. Neither
+    statement is about PLATE ARTWORK specifically, and no Oregon case,
+    statute or agency policy addressing plate design ownership was located.
+    Recorded as ASSERTED ON TRADEMARK, COPYRIGHT UNRESEARCHED — not as
+    adverse, which would overclaim, and not as unresearched, which would
+    ignore the fetched assertion.
+  emblem_rule: >-
+    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies to the Douglas fir, the
+    mountain silhouette and every special-background graphic. Note the
+    additional Oregon-specific hazard: ORS 803.535 makes the design the
+    winning entry of a 1987 PUBLIC CONTEST, which means an identifiable
+    PRIVATE AUTHOR drew it. Whether the contest terms assigned copyright to
+    the state is unknown and unresearched, and it is a real question rather
+    than a theoretical one. Render placeholder.
+  photograph_caution: >-
+    Standard: a CC BY-SA tag on a Commons photograph of an Oregon plate is the
+    photographer's licence on the photograph, not a licence on the design. Our
+    renders are generated from spec, so the obligation never attaches.
+  sources:
+    - "https://www.oregon.gov/pages/terms-and-conditions.aspx  # State of Oregon terms: the Oregon-owned-trademark display condition, quoted above, and the DMCA notice channel"
+    - "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors803.html  # ORS 803.535 — the design provision itself, an edict of government and public domain; read via oregon.public.law (official host TLS-unreachable)"
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY: Oregon is NOT MENTIONED — a measured absence, which is why the posture is not 'favourable'"
+    - "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY: no Oregon state PD template exists among those listed"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# The US standards chain. Voluntary; no federal mandate; J686 never quoted.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+us_standards:
+  no_federal_mandate: true
+  chain: "SAE J686 -> AAMVA License Plate Standard Edition 3 (September 2025) -> voluntary state adoption."
+  aamva_edition_3:
+    dimensions_delegated: "AAMVA §3.1 delegates dimensions and bolt holes to SAE J686, whose text is paywalled and UNPINNED. No J686 dimension is quoted here. Oregon law states no dimension either — ORS 803.535 leaves 'size, form and arrangement' to the department."
+    character_layout: "AAMVA §2.2: characters at least 2.5 in high, spacing at least 0.25 in, stroke weight 0.2-0.4 in, 1.25 in clear of top and bottom"
+    retroreflectivity: "AAMVA §3.3: readable in daylight and at night from at least 75 feet; ASTM D4956-19 and ISO 7591:1982 clause 3. Oregon legislates the REQUIREMENT ('a fully reflectorized safety plate') without the metric."
+    replacement_cycle: "AAMVA §1.1 recommends a cycle 'not to exceed 7 to 10 years'. No Oregon replacement clock was located in ORS 803 (recorded gap)."
+    source: "https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf"
+  folklore_caution: "The 1956 AMA standardization story is COMMONLY REPEATED, UNSOURCED (a `citation needed` since 2017, copied across articles). Oregon states no dimension in law, so nothing here depends on it."
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Display rules.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+display_rules:
+  default: "TWO plates. ORS 803.525: 'The Department of Transportation shall issue two registration plates for every vehicle that is registered by the department except as otherwise provided in this section or ORS 803.530.'"
+  one_plate_vehicles: "ORS 803.525: 'Only one registration plate shall be issued' for a moped, motorcycle, trailer, antique vehicle or vehicle of special interest. A camper also receives one plate, and 'Stickers may be issued in lieu of a plate' for a camper."
+  mounting: "ORS 803.540: plates 'must be displayed on the front and rear of the vehicle if two plates are required'; on the rear only if one is required; and 'The plates must be in plain view and so as to be read easily by the public.' Oregon DMV's own plate page states the placement more concretely: 'One plate is for the foremost point of the front of the vehicle and the other is for the rearmost point of the back of the vehicle.'"
+  frames_and_alteration: "Oregon DMV, in its own words: you cannot 'Alter your plates' or 'Have a frame that covers the numbers, letters, or tags/stickers.'"
+  penalty: "ORS 803.540: violation is a CLASS D TRAFFIC VIOLATION — the lowest tier, and worth recording because the equivalent Florida offence is a nonmoving infraction and the Washington one carries a $500 transfer penalty. US display penalties are not comparable across states."
+  exceptions: "ORS 803.540 exempts operators running on temporary permits, dealer permits, or proportionally registered commercial vehicles operating in compliance with those authorisations."
+  sources:
+    - "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors803.html  # ORS 803.525 two-plate default and the one-plate list; ORS 803.540 display, plain view, Class D traffic violation, permit exceptions. Read via oregon.public.law (official host TLS-unreachable)."
+    - "https://www.oregon.gov/odot/DMV/pages/vehicle/plates.aspx  # Oregon DMV: the foremost-point/rearmost-point placement wording and the alteration/frame prohibitions"
+
+series:
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # THE CURRENT STANDARD-ISSUE SERIES — numeral-leading arrangement on the
+  # statutory 1987-contest base.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-or-standard
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2026 }
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "999 LLL"
+      regex: '\A\d{3}[- ]?[A-Z]{3}\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          NO CHARSET RULE IN THE STATUTE. ORS 803.535 requires only that "All
+          plates shall contain the distinctive number or characters assigned
+          to the vehicle and the word 'Oregon.'" No alphabet, no exclusions,
+          no length. The reported exclusions — the A block skipped since the
+          1950s to avoid collision with the optional Oregon Trail plates, and
+          the I and O blocks skipped since 2004 for confusion with the
+          numerals 1 and 0 — are LOCATOR-GRADE and are deliberately NOT
+          encoded as a `regex_strict`, which PRD-PLATES §2.7 reserves for the
+          authority's own alphabet.
+      pattern_note: >-
+        The group boundary is written as the separator-only class `[- ]`,
+        sanctioned by PRD-PLATES §2.8, because Oregon prints a GAP (not a
+        glyph) and no authority text names a separator character; `pattern`
+        shows the canonical printed form with a space. There is no
+        `regex_statutory`: ORS 803.535 states no outer bound to encode, which
+        is itself the finding.
+      progression: >-
+        LOCATOR-GRADE, NOT ASSERTED: the encyclopedia record reports the
+        numeral-leading block running from 001 BAA and reaching the R block by
+        mid-2026. No ODOT publication of serial ranges was located.
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, dimension_basis: convention-observed }
+      dimension_note: "NOT STATUTORY. ORS 803.535: 'Registration plates shall be in the size, form and arrangement and made of materials determined by the department.' 12 x 6 in is the North American convention as observed; the AAMVA chain delegates the dimension to the unpinned SAE J686."
+      material_rule: "ORS 803.535, verbatim: 'All plates shall be made with a reflective material, so as to be a fully reflectorized safety plate.'"
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground_note: >-
+        DARK BLUE CHARACTERS, HEX UNMEASURED AND NOT INVENTED. ORS 803.535
+        states no colour at all. Rather than fabricate a hex from a JPEG the
+        colour is named with `hex_basis: unmeasured`.
+      legend_top: "Oregon"
+      legend_rule: "ORS 803.535, verbatim: 'All plates shall contain the distinctive number or characters assigned to the vehicle and the word \"Oregon.\"' That is the whole legend rule — Oregon mandates the state name and nothing else, no slogan, no county."
+      graphic: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "Douglas fir at left against a mountain silhouette and sky — the winning entry of the ORS 803.535 design contest. Observed from ODOT plate imagery; the statutory text describes NO graphic, only that the design is the contest winner." }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+      design_origin:
+        statutory_text: "ORS 803.535, verbatim: 'The design of the registration plates shall be that chosen by the commission from entries in the contest held pursuant to chapter 572, Oregon Laws 1987.'"
+        note: >-
+          THE MOST UNUSUAL DESIGN PROVISION IN THE GROUP. Oregon does not
+          describe its plate in law and does not delegate the design to the
+          department either: it incorporates by reference the winner of a
+          1987 public competition. Three consequences a dataset should carry.
+          (1) The base cannot legally change without amending ORS 803.535 —
+          which is why Oregon's plate has looked the same for a generation
+          while neighbours redesigned. (2) 1987 is an instrument-anchored
+          LOWER bound on first issue. (3) There is an identifiable private
+          author, which is an artwork_risk input, not a curiosity.
+      paired_plate_rule: "ORS 803.535: 'When a pair of registration plates is issued, each plate shall bear the same identification as the other plate of the pair.' Front and rear are identical — `rear_differs: false` is sourced here, not assumed."
+      identification_rule: "ORS 803.535: 'Means shall be provided for identifying the vehicle from the front and rear by means of characters or numerals.'"
+      rear_differs: false
+    region_encoding: "none. Oregon plates carry no county or district code and no geographic marker; the only geography on the plate is the depicted landscape, which encodes nothing."
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors803.html  # ORS 803.535: the 1987 contest design provision, the fully-reflectorized-safety-plate requirement, the 'distinctive number or characters ... and the word Oregon' legend rule, the size/form/arrangement delegation, and the identical-pair rule. Read via oregon.public.law (official host TLS-unreachable)."
+      - "https://www.oregon.gov/odot/DMV/pages/vehicle/plates.aspx  # Oregon DMV's own plate estate: plate-option structure, the special-background fee chart pointer, and the plate imagery the observed colours are taken from"
+      - "https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf  # AAMVA Ed.3 §2.2/§3.3 layout and retroreflectivity, adopted voluntarily; Oregon legislates the requirement without the metric"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oregon  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the reported February 2004 arrangement change, the reported serial ranges, and the reported A/I/O block exclusions. None is asserted as sourced here."
+    notes: >-
+      OREGON STANDARD ISSUE, NUMERAL-LEADING. THE ID IS DELIBERATELY UNDATED
+      for the us-fl-standard reason: `start: 2026` is the year the ORS was
+      read and is an UPPER BOUND on the true start. The reported changeover to
+      the numeral-leading arrangement in February 2004 is encyclopedia-grade
+      and is NOT minted into the id. THE POINT TO CARRY: in Oregon the BASE
+      DESIGN and the SERIAL ARRANGEMENT have different lifetimes — the design
+      is frozen by ORS 803.535 since the 1987 contest, while the arrangement
+      flipped from letters-first to numerals-first when the letter blocks ran
+      out. A schema that treats "base" and "format" as one thing cannot model
+      Oregon. Distinct from us-or-standard-letters-first in that this series
+      is open and numeral-leading.
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # ONE SERIES BACK — same statutory base, opposite arrangement.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-or-standard-letters-first
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 1987, end: 2004 }
+    period_evidence: statutory-instrument-date-start-locator-end
+    period_caveat: >-
+      MIXED EVIDENCE, AND THE HALVES ARE NOT EQUAL. The START (1987) is
+      instrument-anchored: ORS 803.535 makes the design the winner of the
+      contest held pursuant to chapter 572, Oregon Laws 1987, so no plate on
+      this base can predate 1987. It is a LOWER bound on first issue, and the
+      commonly repeated November 1989 first-issue date is encyclopedia-grade
+      and is NOT asserted. The END (2004) is locator-only and NOT a sourced
+      claim; no ODOT instrument stating the arrangement changeover was
+      located. A verifier should pin the changeover to an ODOT publication or
+      downgrade the end to `ended: true` with no year.
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3}[- ]?\d{3}\z'
+      charset: { notes: "as for us-or-standard: ORS 803.535 states no alphabet. The reported A-block skip dates from the 1950s and is locator-grade." }
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, dimension_basis: convention-observed }
+      material_rule: "ORS 803.535: 'a fully reflectorized safety plate'"
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground_note: "dark blue characters; hex unmeasured, not invented"
+      legend_top: "Oregon"
+      graphic: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "the same ORS 803.535 contest-winning Douglas fir and mountain design — this series differs from the current one in ARRANGEMENT, not in base" }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+      rear_differs: false
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors803.html  # ORS 803.535 — the same design provision governs this series; the base did not change, only the serial arrangement"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oregon  # LOCATOR ONLY: the letters-first arrangement and the reported February 2004 end. The end year is not asserted as sourced."
+    notes: >-
+      THE PREVIOUS OREGON ARRANGEMENT, ON THE SAME STATUTORY BASE. Modelled as
+      its own series because PRD-PLATES §2.3's test is format OR design OR
+      period, and the FORMAT differs. A parser needs both: an Oregon plate of
+      unknown vintage on the fir base is either LLL 999 or 999 LLL. Distinct
+      from us-or-standard in that this series is closed and letter-leading
+      while the current one is open and numeral-leading; the DESIGN is
+      identical and that is the interesting part.
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # CORE DISTINCT CLASSES. Oregon separately serializes these — ORS 803.525
+  # sources the PLATE COUNT for each, which is a real primary claim, while the
+  # serial grammars are locator-grade, hence `recall-only` with widened
+  # regexes per PRD-PLATES §2.7.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-or-trailer
+    class: trailer
+    categories: [trailer]
+    period: { start: 2026 }
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "L999999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]\d{4,6}\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          ORS 803.525 sources only that a trailer receives ONE plate. The
+          letter-then-numerals shape (reported as a U prefix) is
+          encyclopedia-grade; the numeral count is widened so that a match
+          claims a SHAPE and not a grammar.
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, dimension_basis: convention-observed }
+      material_rule: "ORS 803.535 applies to all plates: 'a fully reflectorized safety plate'"
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      graphic: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "reported to carry the same fir base as the passenger plate" }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors803.html  # ORS 803.525: 'Only one registration plate shall be issued' for a trailer; ORS 803.535: the reflectorization and 'word Oregon' rules apply to all plates"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oregon  # LOCATOR ONLY: the reported U-prefixed trailer serial shape"
+    notes: >-
+      TRAILER. `recall-only` is the honest description, not a hedge: the plate
+      COUNT is statutory, the serial shape is not. Oregon groups trailers with
+      mopeds, motorcycles, campers, antiques and special-interest vehicles in
+      one statutory one-plate list, which is a cleaner rule than most states
+      manage.
+
+  - id: us-or-government-exempt
+    class: government
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2026 }
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "L999999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]\d{4,6}\z'
+      charset: { notes: "reported E-prefixed exempt series; letter-then-numerals shape is encyclopedia-grade and the numeral count is widened accordingly" }
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, dimension_basis: convention-observed }
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      colour_note: "reported blue on gold — the pre-1989 Oregon colourway retained for exempt plates, i.e. an OLD BASE STILL IN ISSUE. Recorded because it is exactly the parallel-series case PRD-PLATES §2.2 warns about, but the claim is locator-grade."
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors803.html  # ORS 803.535: the design, reflectorization and legend rules apply to registration plates generally"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oregon  # LOCATOR ONLY: the reported E-prefixed exempt series and its blue-on-gold colourway"
+    notes: >-
+      GOVERNMENT / EXEMPT. Modelled because Oregon separately serializes it
+      and because the reported colourway is the pre-1989 scheme — a live
+      example of a superseded base surviving inside a non-standard class. The
+      claim is locator-grade throughout, hence `recall-only`; no ODOT
+      instrument for the exempt series was located.
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Count and official
+  # links only; no individual designs (those are L4).
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-or-specialty-index
+    class: specialty
+    categories: [car, van, truck, motorcycle]
+    period: { start: 2026 }
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "999 LLL"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9]){0,6}\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          Oregon calls these SPECIAL BACKGROUND plates, and the name is the
+          model: the serial arrangement is the ordinary one and only the
+          background changes. Because per-programme grammars were not sourced
+          (individual specialty specs are L4 per PRD-PLATES §2.5), the index
+          carries a deliberately wide union and is `recall-only`.
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, dimension_basis: convention-observed }
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      note: "one background per authorised programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope and none is described here"
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+    program_index:
+      count_official: unstated
+      count_official_note: >-
+        NO OFFICIAL TOTAL IS PUBLISHED, AND THAT IS THE FINDING. Oregon DMV's
+        plate estate routes the user to a "Special Background Fees Chart" and
+        to "View your plate options" rather than to a counted catalogue, and
+        neither yields a number. Recorded as UNSTATED rather than filled in
+        from a secondary source. The encyclopedia record reports 20-plus
+        optional designs; that figure is LOCATOR-GRADE and is not adopted.
+      creation_route: >-
+        THE STRUCTURAL FACT THAT MATTERS MORE THAN THE COUNT. Oregon DMV, in
+        its own words: "Public bodies, non-profit organizations, institutes of
+        higher education, and veteran groups can apply to create a new Oregon
+        license plate", by two distinct routes — "Apply to create a new
+        special background plate" and "Apply to create a new veteran plate."
+        Oregon's catalogue is therefore APPLICANT-DRIVEN and open-ended,
+        which is the opposite of Washington's, where RCW 46.18.200(6) freezes
+        new issuance until 1 January 2029. Two neighbouring states, two
+        opposite programme architectures — this is the sort of contrast the
+        encyclopedia section exists to show.
+      official_plate_page_url: "https://www.oregon.gov/odot/DMV/pages/vehicle/plates.aspx"
+      fee_chart_note: "Oregon publishes a 'Special Background Fees Chart' as the authoritative per-programme fee list; it was not machine-read in this pass and is the natural source for an exact programme count (recorded gap)."
+      application_form_note: "DMV Form 268, 'Application for Registration, Renewal, Replacement or Transfer of Plates and/or Stickers', is the single form that carries the special-background election — one form, not one per programme."
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.oregon.gov/odot/DMV/pages/vehicle/plates.aspx  # Oregon DMV: the special-background structure, the two creation routes (special background plate / veteran plate) and the eligible applicant classes, the Special Background Fees Chart pointer, and Form 268"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oregon  # LOCATOR ONLY: the reported 20-plus optional designs. NOT adopted as the count."
+    notes: >-
+      THE OREGON SPECIALTY INDEX — one entry standing for the whole programme,
+      per PRD-PLATES §2.5. The honest headline is a NEGATIVE result: Oregon
+      publishes no programme count. Recording "unstated" with the reason beats
+      importing a number from an encyclopedia, and the Special Background Fees
+      Chart is the identified path to a real figure next pass.
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Classes Oregon separately serializes but which are NOT given series here,
+# because no format was sourced and this dataset does not invent grammars.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+unspecified_classes:
+  motorcycle:
+    statutory_hook: "ORS 803.525: 'Only one registration plate shall be issued' for a motorcycle or moped."
+    gap: "no motorcycle serial grammar sourced; the encyclopedia record's reported shape was too garbled to widen honestly"
+  dealer:
+    statutory_hook: "ORS 803.540 exempts vehicles operating under DEALER PERMITS from the ordinary display rule, so dealer issuance exists in statute."
+    gap: "no dealer plate serial grammar sourced"
+  temporary:
+    statutory_hook: "ORS 803.540 exempts operators running under TEMPORARY PERMITS. Oregon trip permits may be documents rather than plates."
+    gap: "not obtained; may fall outside the schema's plate definition entirely"
+  historic:
+    statutory_hook: "ORS 803.525 puts 'antique' vehicles and 'vehicles of special interest' in the one-plate list, so both are distinct issuance categories. Oregon DMV lists Form 6577, 'Antique/Special Interest Vehicle Certification'."
+    gap: "no serial grammar sourced for either; note Oregon distinguishes ANTIQUE from SPECIAL INTEREST, a two-tier historic regime worth modelling once sourced"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Dead ends and open items.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+research_notes:
+  reachability:
+    - "www.oregonlegislature.gov: TLS handshake refused from this environment on every attempt (curl exit 35 with default, --tlsv1.2, --tls-max 1.2 and --http1.1; WebFetch ECONNRESET). ORS text read from oregon.public.law instead. Oregon statutes are PD edicts so the text is the text, but official-host re-verification is an open item."
+    - "www.oregon.gov/odot/DMV/pages/vehicle/plates.aspx: 200 and fully readable. The 'View your plate options' and 'Special Background Fees Chart' targets are script-rendered and four guessed URLs all 404'd (plate_options.aspx, plates_special.aspx, plate_special.aspx, plateoptions.aspx) — the real paths must be harvested from the rendered DOM."
+  open_items:
+    - "Chapter 572, Oregon Laws 1987 — the design-contest act itself — was not fetched. It is the primary that would date the contest, name the commission and possibly settle who owns the winning artwork. HIGH VALUE for both period and artwork_risk."
+    - "The Special Background Fees Chart is the identified route to an exact Oregon specialty programme count."
+    - "No Oregon plate replacement cycle was located anywhere in ORS 803 (contrast Florida's 10 years, Montana's 5, Idaho's now-repealed 10). Whether Oregon truly has none is an unresolved negative."