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+# plates/ca-ab.yml — Alberta (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Canada west).
+#
+# ── FOUR STRUCTURAL FACTS THAT SHAPE THIS FILE ─────────────────────────────
+#
+# 1. ALBERTA DELEGATES THE PLATE TWICE, AND THE SECOND DELEGATE PUBLISHES
+#    ALMOST NOTHING. Operator Licensing and Vehicle Control Regulation,
+#    AR 320/2002, Division 3 (Licence Plates), s. 63, verbatim:
+#      "63(1) The Registrar shall issue a licence plate for a vehicle if the
+#       Registrar issues a certificate of registration for the vehicle.
+#       (2) The Registrar shall issue licence plates in the number and of the
+#       type and colour approved by the Minister."
+#    So the REGULATION delegates the number, type and colour to the MINISTER,
+#    and the Minister's approval is not itself published as an instrument. No
+#    dimension, no character metric, no serial grammar exists anywhere in
+#    Alberta law. The whole of Division 3 (ss. 63-75) was read; it legislates
+#    ELIGIBILITY and DISPLAY and nothing about what a plate looks like. This is
+#    the Washington/British Columbia pattern with one more hop.
+#
+# 2. THE SERIAL GRAMMAR IS THEREFORE UNSOURCED TO ANY ALBERTA PUBLICATION, AND
+#    THIS FILE SAYS SO ON ITS FACE. `ABC-1234` is universally reported and was
+#    NOT located on any alberta.ca page, in the Traffic Safety Act, or in
+#    AR 320/2002. It is carried with `period_evidence: secondary-wikipedia` and
+#    `format.evidence: secondary`, per the PRD-PLATES § 4 Wikipedia row's
+#    tagging condition. Contrast plates/ca-yt.yml, whose grammar for every class
+#    is in the regulation itself, and plates/ca-nt.yml, whose thirteen plate
+#    types are enumerated with their letter prefixes in the regulation. Alberta
+#    is the WEAKEST-sourced format in this seven-jurisdiction group and the
+#    ranking is stated so a verifier knows where to spend effort.
+#
+# 3. ALBERTA IS A ONE-PLATE PROVINCE THAT LEGISLATES A SECOND PLATE FOR
+#    OLD CARS, AND THAT SECOND PLATE IS A GENUINE HISTORIC ARTEFACT.
+#    AR 320/2002 s. 70(2)(a) forbids displaying "any other vehicle plate or
+#    device bearing numbers or letters or both that are identical to or have the
+#    general appearance of a licence plate". s. 66 then carves out, verbatim:
+#      "66 Despite section 70(2), the owner of a motor vehicle that is 25 years
+#       old or older and registered as a private passenger vehicle may attach to
+#       the front of it one, but not more than one, licence plate issued in
+#       Alberta in the year in which the vehicle was manufactured."
+#    A lawful Alberta front plate is thus, by statute, a PERIOD-CORRECT PLATE
+#    FROM THE VEHICLE'S BUILD YEAR — no current registration, no validity. Any
+#    consumer reading Alberta front plates will read expired historic serials as
+#    live registrations unless it knows this rule. It is modelled as a DISPLAY
+#    RULE, not a series, because no new plate is manufactured for it.
+#
+# 4. THE ONE SOURCED CHARSET RULE IN THE FILE IS ALBERTA'S OWN AND IT IS ABOUT
+#    ZERO. alberta.ca, on personalized plates, verbatim among the prohibited
+#    configurations: "the letter O (use the number zero)". The same page lists
+#    the substitution pairs Alberta polices to prevent look-alikes: 1/I, 1/L,
+#    6/G, 5/S, 2/Z, 0/Q, 8/B, 3/E, 4/A. Note what that list implies and this
+#    file does NOT assert: it is a rule about PERSONALIZED plates, and it is not
+#    evidence about the regular-series alphabet.
+#
+# REGEX POLICY: as plates/gb.yml. `format.regex` is the round-trippable tier;
+# `regex_strict` carries a sourced narrowing where one exists (here: only the
+# personalized O-exclusion, which cannot go in `regex` because the lint
+# generates O from the human pattern).
+jurisdiction: ca-ab
+authority:
+  name: Registrar of Motor Vehicle Services, Government of Alberta (plates issued through registry agents)
+  url: "https://www.alberta.ca/licence-plates"
+binding: vehicle
+binding_note: >-
+  AR 320/2002 s. 113 lets a registered owner "pass" a plate from one vehicle to
+  another of the same class that they own, and s. 68(1) lets a trailer plate be
+  transferred between the owner's own trailers with the Registrar's consent,
+  while s. 68(2) forbids passing a trailer plate "from one trailer owner to
+  another". The plate follows the OWNER's registration within a class, not the
+  vehicle.
+instrument:
+  statute:
+    citation: "Traffic Safety Act, R.S.A. 2000, c. T-6"
+    note: "The Act creates the Registrar and the registration regime; the plate provisions live in the regulation below. The Act's own text was not fetched in this pass (recorded gap)."
+  regulation:
+    citation: "Operator Licensing and Vehicle Control Regulation, Alta. Reg. 320/2002, Part 3 Division 3 (Licence Plates), ss. 63, 63.1, 64, 65, 66, 66.1, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75; s. 115 (Personal licence plates)"
+    amendments_seen_in_text: "s. 63.1 added AR 160/2014 s2, amended 77/2022; s. 64 substituted AR 282/2020 s2; s. 66.1 as amended AR 253/2004 s3, 48/2005, 131/2010, 73/2012, 207/2020, 160/2026; s. 70 amended AR 282/2020 s3"
+    source: "https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf  # Division 3 ss. 63-75 and s. 115 read verbatim 2026-08-02 (PDF, text layer present)"
+  agency_page:
+    citation: "Government of Alberta, 'Licence plates' (alberta.ca), accessed 2026-08-02"
+    source: "https://www.alberta.ca/licence-plates  # plate location, one-plate rule, veterans-plate dates, personalized-plate prohibitions incl. the O rule and the look-alike substitution list, the three named specialty plates"
+  licence: "Alberta King's Printer serves AR 320/2002 without click-through; it is an edict of government. alberta.ca content is Crown copyright, cited not reproduced."
+
+artwork_risk:
+  posture: unresearched-crown-copyright-presumed
+  basis: >-
+    Crown copyright under s. 12 of the Copyright Act (Canada) is the default and
+    no Alberta disclaimer was found. Alberta is additionally the group's
+    THIRD-PARTY-MARK case, from its own regulation and its own web pages: two of
+    the three specialty plates alberta.ca names are professional sports club
+    marks (Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers), and AR 320/2002 s. 63.1(3) makes
+    every specialty plate the product of "a written agreement with[] an
+    organization". Alberta legislates that its specialty artwork is a
+    contracted third-party property — the same posture Montana reaches by a
+    different route (MCA 61-3-475's hold-harmless clause).
+  emblem_rule: >-
+    PRD-PLATES § 3 placeholder default applies to the wild-rose device, the
+    provincial wordmark, the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers marks, and the
+    Royal Canadian Legion's "integrated maple leaf and poppy logo", which
+    AR 320/2002 s. 66.1(1) puts on the veterans' plate BY NAME. The Legion logo
+    is a third-party registered mark placed on a government plate by regulation;
+    no theory of Crown copyright reaches it.
+  sources:
+    - "https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf  # s. 63.1(3) written agreement with an organization; s. 66.1(1) the Royal Canadian Legion logo by name"
+    - "https://www.alberta.ca/licence-plates  # Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers specialty plates"
+
+display_rules:
+  count: >-
+    ONE plate. alberta.ca, verbatim: "You cannot display more than one licence
+    plate on your vehicle or any other type of plate that could be mistaken for
+    a valid licence plate." AR 320/2002 s. 70(2) is the regulation behind it.
+  location: >-
+    AR 320/2002 s. 70(1), verbatim: "The owner of a vehicle shall attach a
+    licence plate securely as follows: (a) if the vehicle is not a truck tractor
+    or a motor cycle, to the rear of the vehicle so that the lower edge of the
+    plate is not lower than the axle; (b) if the vehicle is a truck tractor, to
+    the front of the vehicle; (c) if the vehicle is a motor cycle, on the rear
+    mudguard or rear fender so that it is clearly visible."
+  truck_tractor_inversion: >-
+    Alberta puts the truck tractor's ONLY plate on the FRONT — the same outlier
+    Florida legislates (§ 320.0706 F.S.). Two jurisdictions on different
+    continents of the same continent reach the identical rule; it is not a
+    typo in either file.
+  historic_front_plate: >-
+    s. 66 (quoted in the header): a private passenger vehicle 25 years old or
+    older may carry, ON THE FRONT ONLY, one Alberta plate issued in the year the
+    vehicle was manufactured. This is a re-display permission for an EXPIRED
+    historic plate, not an issuance, so it has no series.
+  condition: "s. 71(1): no person shall drive a vehicle if the licence plate is not securely attached, 'legible and clearly visible at all times'. s. 71(2) excuses obstruction caused only by a trailer attached to the rear."
+  foreign_plates: "s. 70(2)(b) forbids displaying a plate issued by another jurisdiction 'unless the display is required by this Regulation or by the laws of the jurisdiction that issued the plate'."
+  sources:
+    - "https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf  # ss. 66, 70, 71"
+    - "https://www.alberta.ca/licence-plates  # the one-plate sentence and the plate-location list"
+
+common:
+  separator_note: >-
+    Alberta's serial is universally rendered with a hyphen (`ABC-1234`) and NO
+    Alberta publication states a separator glyph or a group gap. Under
+    PRD-PLATES § 2.8 the honest encoding of an authority that names no glyph is
+    a separator-only class, so every regex here spells the position `[- ]?`
+    while `pattern` shows the canonical printed hyphen. A § 2.6-forgiving
+    consumer deletes it either way.
+  dimensions_note: >-
+    NEGATIVE FINDING. No dimension appears in AR 320/2002 or on alberta.ca.
+    `design.plate` is absent from every series here, as in plates/ca-bc.yml and
+    plates/gb.yml.
+  charset_disagreement: >-
+    RECORDED, NOT AVERAGED (PRD-PLATES § 5.3). Two secondary readings of the
+    Alberta regular-series alphabet are in circulation: the world dossier
+    (aux/research/plates-2026-07/plates-research-us-world.md § 2.1) reports
+    "excludes I, O, Q, U"; the per-province encyclopedia article reports that
+    "A, E, I, O, Q, U are skipped" — i.e. all vowels plus Q. No Alberta source
+    resolves it. NEITHER is asserted: no `regex_strict` narrows the
+    regular-series alphabet in this file, and the disagreement is carried here
+    as the standing verifier target.
+
+series:
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # STANDARD PASSENGER.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: ca-ab-standard
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2010 }
+    period_evidence: secondary-wikipedia
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL-9999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3}[- ]?\d{4}\z'
+      evidence: secondary
+      progression: "not published"
+    design:
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#1B3F8B"
+      legend_top: "ALBERTA"
+      legend_bottom: "Wild Rose Country"
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "wild rose device / provincial wordmark" }
+      rear_differs: false
+    notes: >-
+      THE FORMAT AND THE PERIOD ARE BOTH SECONDARY AND THE FILE DOES NOT
+      PRETEND OTHERWISE. Three letters, a hyphen and four numerals is the
+      arrangement every source reports and no Alberta publication states. The
+      reported first issue is June 2010; the encyclopedia row carries no
+      footnote for it, so it is tagged `secondary-wikipedia` under the
+      PRD-PLATES § 4 Wikipedia condition (tagged + article URL, so that every
+      such fact is enumerable in one pass if the decision is revisited). The
+      base design itself is reported as introduced in late 1983 and refreshed
+      with an updated provincial logo in July 2019 — BASE AND FORMAT HAVE
+      DIFFERENT LIFETIMES in Alberta as they do in Oregon and British Columbia,
+      and neither reported base date is asserted as a series boundary here.
+      No `regex_strict` is offered: see common.charset_disagreement.
+    sources:
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Alberta  # FINDING AID (PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia row): the ABC-1234 arrangement, the reported June 2010 first issue, the reported 1983 base and 2019 logo refresh; accessed 2026-08-02"
+      - "https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf  # s. 63(1)-(2): the Registrar issues; the Minister approves number, type and colour"
+
+  - id: ca-ab-standard-3x3
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 1975, ended: true }
+    year_end_min: 2003
+    period_evidence: secondary-wikipedia
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL-999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3}[- ]?\d{3}\z'
+      evidence: secondary
+    design:
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#1B3F8B"
+      legend_top: "ALBERTA"
+      legend_bottom: "Wild Rose Country"
+      rear_differs: false
+    notes: >-
+      THE "ONE SERIES BACK" REQUIREMENT, MET WEAKLY AND LABELLED AS SUCH. Three
+      letters and three numerals ran from a reported 1975 on a yellow base and
+      continued onto the white/red/blue base; the reported end is 2003, seven
+      years before the reported ABC-1234 start, and NO SOURCE EXPLAINS THE GAP.
+      Because the end year is contested by that gap, the schema's known-over-
+      undated shape is used: `ended: true` with `year_end_min: 2003` rather than
+      a hard `end`, which is exactly the case PRD-PLATES § 2.2 introduced it
+      for. "Wild Rose Country" is reported as the slogan from 1973, i.e. it
+      spans both series and is not an era signal.
+    sources:
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Alberta  # FINDING AID: ABC-123 reported 1975-2003, yellow base, slogan from 1973; accessed 2026-08-02"
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # CLASSES ALBERTA LEGISLATES BUT DOES NOT SPECIFY A GRAMMAR FOR.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: ca-ab-veterans
+    class: specialty
+    categories: [car, van, truck, motorcycle, moped]
+    period: { start: 2005 }
+    period_evidence: agency-stated-date
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL-999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?:[- ]?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      evidence: none-published
+    design:
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#1B3F8B"
+      legend: "Veteran"
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "integrated maple leaf and poppy logo of the Royal Canadian Legion (named in AR 320/2002 s. 66.1(1))" }
+    notes: >-
+      THE DESIGN IS IN THE REGULATION EVEN THOUGH THE SERIAL IS NOT.
+      AR 320/2002 s. 66.1(1), verbatim: "The Registrar may issue a veterans'
+      licence plate that includes the word 'Veteran' and bears a depiction of
+      the integrated maple leaf and poppy logo of the Royal Canadian Legion to
+      an individual who meets the criteria set out in this section." s. 66.1(6)
+      restricts it to passenger-class motor vehicles, Class 2 farm vehicles,
+      motor cycles (not off-highway vehicles) and mopeds. s. 66.1(4) is the
+      unusual bit: "The evaluation of service documentation ... is the EXCLUSIVE
+      RESPONSIBILITY of the Royal Canadian Legion, Alberta-NWT Command" — a
+      government plate whose eligibility adjudication is contracted out to a
+      private body, with its own appeal process. `period.start: 2005` is
+      alberta.ca's own statement: "The Government of Alberta introduced a
+      special veterans' licence plate in 2005 and a motorcycle veterans' licence
+      plate in 2012". The motorcycle variant is recorded here rather than given
+      its own series because no format difference is sourced. s. 66.1(9)-(10)
+      let the Registrar recall the plate when eligibility lapses, and
+      alberta.ca adds that on the veteran's death the plate "may be retained
+      only as a memento but can no longer be used on a vehicle".
+    sources:
+      - "https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf  # s. 66.1(1), (4), (6), (9), (10)"
+      - "https://www.alberta.ca/licence-plates  # 2005 introduction, 2012 motorcycle variant, memento rule"
+
+  - id: ca-ab-antique
+    class: historic
+    categories: [car, van, truck]
+    period: { start: 2002 }
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "999999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?:[- ]?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      evidence: none-published
+    design:
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#1B3F8B"
+      legend: "ANTIQUE"
+    notes: >-
+      AR 320/2002 s. 65(1), verbatim: "The Registrar shall issue a licence plate
+      that has 'antique' on it if the Registrar issues a certificate of
+      registration for an antique motor vehicle." The LEGEND is therefore
+      statutory even though the serial is not. s. 65(2)-(3) give the owner a
+      genuine choice the schema should not flatten: instead of the antique
+      plate, the Registrar may approve "a licence plate that was issued in
+      Alberta, in the year an antique motor vehicle was manufactured and that is
+      in a condition satisfactory to the Registrar", and the owner "may attach
+      either ... but not both". A vehicle-keyed consumer can therefore meet an
+      Alberta-registered antique wearing a plate from the 1930s as its LIVE
+      registration. `period.start: 2002` is the year AR 320/2002 was made and is
+      an UPPER BOUND on the regime's start, not its creation — Alberta plainly
+      registered antiques before 2002 and the predecessor instrument was not
+      traced.
+    sources:
+      - "https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf  # s. 65(1)-(5)"
+
+  - id: ca-ab-personalized
+    class: personalized
+    categories: [car, van, truck, motorcycle]
+    period: { start: 2002 }
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLLLLL"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?:[- ]?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      evidence: agency-page-for-restrictions-only
+      charset:
+        excluded: ["O"]
+        notes: >-
+          alberta.ca, verbatim, among the things a personalized configuration
+          must not contain: "the letter O (use the number zero)". This is the
+          Idaho rule exactly ("The letter O and the number zero look the same on
+          a license plate, therefore only the number zero will be accepted") and
+          it is carried as `charset.excluded` rather than in a regex: § 2.7
+          makes `regex` the round-trippable tier and `recall-only` forbids a
+          strict twin, so there is nowhere in the regex tiers to put it.
+    design:
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#1B3F8B"
+    notes: >-
+      AR 320/2002 s. 115 is the personal-plate section (its text was located in
+      the regulation's index and its operative body was not extracted in this
+      pass — recorded gap). alberta.ca carries the substantive rules and they
+      are worth recording because Alberta polices LOOK-ALIKES explicitly, by
+      enumerated substitution pair: "Letters and numbers cannot be substituted
+      to create a plate similar to an existing plate such as H1 QT and HI QT.
+      Common substitutions include: Number 1 and the letter I; Number 1 and the
+      letter L; Number 6 and the letter G; Number 5 and the letter S; Number 2
+      and the letter Z; Number 0 and the letter Q; Number 8 and the letter B;
+      Number 3 and the letter E; Number 4 and the letter A." That is a
+      publishable OCR-confusability table straight from a motor-vehicle
+      authority. A personalized plate may not use "a configuration used by Motor
+      Vehicles Services for regular series licence plates", and may not be
+      registered on dealer plates, antiques, consular corps, disabled or
+      specialty plates. No character COUNT is stated on the page.
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.alberta.ca/licence-plates  # the O rule, the substitution table, the ineligible classes, the no-regular-series rule"
+      - "https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf  # s. 115 Personal licence plates (index entry)"
+
+  - id: ca-ab-specialty-index
+    class: specialty
+    categories: [car, van, truck]
+    period: { start: 2014 }
+    period_evidence: enabling-instrument
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL-999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?:[- ]?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      evidence: none-published
+    design:
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#1B3F8B"
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+    programs_named_by_the_authority:
+      - "Calgary Flames"
+      - "Edmonton Oilers"
+      - "Support our Troops"
+    program_count: 3
+    program_count_basis: "alberta.ca names exactly three specialty plates and links a page for each. Alberta publishes no total and no catalogue; three is what the authority lists, not an estimate."
+    notes: >-
+      THE INDEX ENTRY, per PRD-PLATES § 2.5 (individual specialty DESIGNS are
+      L4 work). `period.start: 2014` is the enabling instrument, not a program
+      date: s. 63.1 was ADDED to AR 320/2002 by AR 160/2014 s. 2 and amended by
+      AR 77/2022. s. 63.1(3): the Registrar, "on the application of, and having
+      entered into a written agreement with, an organization, may create a
+      special type of licence plate with respect to that organization".
+      s. 63.1(4) requires the Registrar to PUBLISH the creation criteria "on the
+      Registrar's website maintained on the Government of Alberta website" —
+      a statutory publication duty whose output was NOT located in this pass and
+      which is the single highest-value follow-up for Alberta. s. 63.1(5):
+      "Specialty licence plates must be in the form and design approved by the
+      Registrar." s. 63.1(6) lets the Registrar restrict a specialty plate to
+      named vehicle classes in writing.
+    sources:
+      - "https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf  # s. 63.1(1)-(6), enactment AR 160/2014 s2, amendment 77/2022"
+      - "https://www.alberta.ca/licence-plates  # the three named programs"
+
+  - id: ca-ab-dealer
+    class: dealer
+    categories: [car, van, truck, trailer]
+    period: { start: 2002 }
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LL-9999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?:[- ]?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      evidence: none-published
+    design:
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#1B3F8B"
+    notes: >-
+      AR 320/2002 ss. 72-74. s. 72(4) states the binding plainly and it is the
+      classic dealer-plate shape: "A dealer's certificate of registration and
+      the licence plates issued with it apply to ALL MOTOR VEHICLES HELD FOR
+      SALE by the holder of the certificate of registration from time to time" —
+      the plate is bound to the BUSINESS, not to any vehicle. s. 72(5) excludes
+      vehicles held for hire. s. 73 runs the parallel regime for trailer dealers
+      and s. 74 for dealers' plates generally. No serial grammar is published,
+      hence recall-only. Separate from ca-ab-personalized, which s. 115 and
+      alberta.ca both bar from dealer plates.
+    sources:
+      - "https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf  # ss. 72(1)-(6), 73, 74"
+
+  - id: ca-ab-trailer
+    class: trailer
+    categories: [trailer]
+    period: { start: 2002 }
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "9999-LL"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?:[- ]?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      evidence: none-published
+    design:
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#1B3F8B"
+    notes: >-
+      AR 320/2002 s. 68: a trailer plate may be transferred between trailers of
+      the same owner with the Registrar's consent (s. 68(1)) but never "from one
+      trailer owner to another" (s. 68(2)); a trailer-rental business may not
+      rent out a trailer without a trailer plate on it (s. 68(3)). s. 69 adds
+      the Alberta oddity: the Registrar "may issue a TRAILER licence plate to
+      the owner of a COMMERCIAL VEHICLE if the owner is engaged in the business
+      of towing trailers", and that owner "may attach the trailer licence plate
+      to a trailer towed by the commercial vehicle" — a trailer plate bound to
+      the tractor's operator rather than to any trailer. Recall-only: no
+      grammar published; the pattern shown is a placeholder shape only.
+    sources:
+      - "https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf  # ss. 68(1)-(3), 69(1)-(2)"