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+# plates/us/fl.yml — Florida (PRD-PLATES gate L0 pilot; the federated case).
+#
+# WHY FLORIDA IS THE PILOT STATE, restated from the source law: the US has NO
+# federal plate mandate and per-state IP posture VARIES. Florida is the
+# affirmatively favourable case — its constitution and public-records statutes
+# bar copyright claims over public records, and Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner
+# (2004) held government-produced text, communications AND IMAGES to be public
+# domain. See `artwork_risk` below.
+#
+# SOURCING RULE APPLIED HERE: Florida's plate FACTS come from the STATUTE, not
+# the brochure. Edicts of government are public domain at every level, and
+# PRD-PLATES §4 says always prefer the statute over the brochure. So every
+# format, dimension, legend, display and replacement-cycle claim below cites
+# Chapter 320 or Chapter 316 of the Florida Statutes. The FLHSMV brochure and
+# the specialty portal are cited only for the two things the statute does not
+# carry: which standard VARIANTS are currently offered, and how many specialty
+# programs exist.
+#
+# REGEX FORM (PRD-PLATES §2.6, issue #124): every regex in this file is written
+# in PRINTED form — the separator is spelled where the plate shows it. That is
+# why `regex_statutory` reads '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9]){0,6}\z' and not
+# '\A[A-Z0-9]{1,7}\z': the statutory claim is § 320.06(3)(a)'s SEVEN
+# ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS, unchanged, but the earlier spelling silently also
+# claimed the plate is printed without a gap, so it rejected "ABC 123" —
+# every real Florida plate. The cap is the claim; the gap is not.
+#
+# WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT HERE (PRD-PLATES §2.5): the individual specialty
+# DESIGNS. L2 indexes the programs with official links and counts; individual
+# designs are L4. `us-fl-specialty-index` is that index entry and nothing more.
+#
+# RE-DATED TO THE L1 EVIDENCE STANDARD (pass of 2026-08-02). The L0 pilot
+# shipped every period.start as the STATUTE-EDITION year (2024/2025 —
+# instrument dates), which is exactly the disease the period_evidence
+# discipline exists to prevent: Florida standard plates obviously predate
+# 2025. This pass re-dates all ten series from primary instruments:
+#   * the History lines of §§ 320.06, 320.086, 320.0805 and 320.08056 (each
+#     History note is part of the official statute publication and lists every
+#     amending chapter law with its session year — the first entry is the
+#     section's creating act);
+#   * the 1997 ARCHIVE EDITION of the Florida Statutes (the earliest edition
+#     leg.state.fl.us serves, via the StatuteYear parameter) — presence of a
+#     legend sentence in 1997 gives a real upper bound three decades tighter
+#     than the 2025 edition;
+#   * Laws of Florida ch. 99-248 (laws.flrules.org/1999/248, the full chapter
+#     law, 142 pp, strike/underline coded: "CODING: Words stricken are
+#     deletions; words underlined are additions") — which pins the 1999
+#     historic-plate restructure and the Manufacturer legend's insertion to
+#     the sentence.
+# NEGATIVE FINDING, recorded so nobody repeats the hunt: FLHSMV has NO
+# plate-history page — the department's full WordPress sitemap (3,988 URLs)
+# was enumerated on 2026-08-02 and nothing on flhsmv.gov dates any base
+# design. The standard base's start therefore rests on a FLAGGED secondary
+# (see us-fl-standard.notes), not on an agency page, and the immediately-prior
+# base is NOT authored because no primary and no cited secondary dates it
+# (recorded gap, L4 work).
+jurisdiction: us-fl
+authority:
+  name: Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV)
+  url: "https://www.flhsmv.gov/motor-vehicles-tags-titles/license-plates-registration/"
+binding: vehicle
+statute_edition: "The 2025 Florida Statutes (Title XXIII Motor Vehicles, Chapters 316 and 320) — the current edition read; leg.state.fl.us serves archive editions back to 1997, and the 1997 editions of §§ 320.06 and 320.086 were read for the 2026-08-02 re-dating pass, together with Laws of Florida ch. 99-248 (laws.flrules.org, accessed 2026-08-02)"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+artwork_risk:
+  posture: public-domain-favourable
+  basis: >-
+    Florida is the strongest public-domain posture of any US state surveyed: the
+    state constitution plus the public-records statutes prohibit copyright claims
+    over public records, and Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner (2004) held that
+    government-produced text, communications and IMAGES are public domain.
+    Wikimedia Commons carries and actively uses the {{PD-FLGov}} tag. Contrast
+    Arizona, which expressly asserts copyright, and NY/PA/WA, which are adverse.
+  emblem_rule: >-
+    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default still applies to the ORANGE BLOSSOM and
+    STATE MAP graphic until the emblem is affirmatively cleared per-emblem. Even
+    under a favourable copyright posture, state seals and emblems carry
+    protection INDEPENDENT of copyright (state-seal misuse statutes), and that
+    question is unresearched. Render `emblem: {present: true, rendered:
+    placeholder}` and revisit as a named decision.
+  photograph_caution: >-
+    Commons photographs of Florida plates are dominantly CC BY-SA — but that is
+    the PHOTOGRAPHER's licence on the PHOTOGRAPH, and the uploader had no
+    standing over the design. Measured examples: File:FL-2010.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0,
+    File:1983 Florida license plate - XRN 061.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0, File:License
+    plates of Florida 1844.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0. Because our renders are generated
+    from the statute and never derived from a photograph, those share-alike
+    obligations never attach.
+  sources:
+    - "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-FLGov  # the Florida PD tag exists and is in active use (Category:PD Florida)"
+    - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.06.html  # the statutory design spec itself — an edict of government, PD"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# The US standards chain. Recorded once, because it is voluntary and because
+# the delegation trap matters: AAMVA sends dimensions to SAE J686, whose own
+# text is PAYWALLED and UNPINNED. Nothing below quotes J686.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+us_standards:
+  no_federal_mandate: true
+  chain: "SAE J686 -> AAMVA License Plate Standard Edition 3 (September 2025) -> voluntary state adoption. AAMVA has no enforcement power; it writes recommendations in the declarative present, which must be read as RECOMMENDED PRACTICE, not requirement."
+  aamva_edition_3:
+    dimensions_delegated: "AAMVA §3.1: 'License plate dimensions and bolt holes comply with the SAE International Motor Vehicle License Plates Standard J686.' So the dimension authority is SAE J686 — not AAMVA, not any federal body. J686's own text is paywalled and was NOT obtained; no J686 dimension is quoted anywhere in this dataset."
+    retroreflectivity: "AAMVA §3.3: readable 'in both daylight and nighttime from distances of at least 75 feet'; materials per ASTM D4956-19 and ISO 7591:1982 clause 3; test geometry entrance angle 0.2°, observation angle -4°, minimum 45 cd/lx/m²"
+    jurisdiction_name_layout: "AAMVA §2.1: the jurisdiction name 'appears in the top center location between the bolt holes', at least 0.25 in above the plate number and at least 0.125 in from the top edge; jurisdiction characters 0.75-1.0 in"
+    character_layout: "AAMVA §2.2: characters at least 2.5 in high, spaced at least 0.25 in apart, stroke weight 0.2-0.4 in, at least 1.25 in clear of the top and bottom edges"
+    stacked_characters: "AAMVA: 'If stacked characters are used, they are part of the official license plate number. No more than two characters are to be stacked.' Consequential for regex and normalisation — a stacked pair is SERIAL, not decoration."
+    replacement_cycle: "AAMVA §1.1: 'Because license plates lose significant retro-reflectivity within 7 years, a required rolling or full replacement cycle not to exceed 7 to 10 years is recommended.' Florida legislated 10 (see us-fl-standard)."
+    licence_posture: "AAMVA © — freely downloadable without click-through; facts extractable, text not reproducible. Cited, not quoted at length."
+    source: "https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf"
+  folklore_caution: >-
+    The famous "1956 AMA standardization agreement" that supposedly fixed the
+    6x12 inch plate is UNCITED in its Wikipedia source — a `citation needed`
+    since 2017, copied verbatim across articles, i.e. circular. It is recorded
+    here as COMMONLY REPEATED, UNSOURCED, and Florida's 6x12 minimum is instead
+    cited to § 320.06(3)(a) F.S., which states it in law.
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Display rules. Florida is a REAR-ONLY state with two statutory exceptions,
+# one of which is genuinely unusual (truck tractors are FRONT-ONLY).
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+display_rules:
+  default: "ONE plate, rear. § 320.06(1)(a): the department issues 'one registration license plate, unless two plates are required for display by s. 320.0706, for each vehicle so registered'. § 316.605(1) then requires display of 'the license plate or both of the license plates assigned to it by the state, one on the rear and, if two, the other on the front'."
+  front_plate_required_when:
+    - "commercial truck of gross vehicle weight 26,001 lb or more: front AND rear (§ 320.0706)"
+    - "TRUCK TRACTOR: the owner 'shall be required to display the registration license plate only on the FRONT of such vehicle' (§ 320.0706) — front-only, the inverse of the state default and a genuine outlier in the US"
+  dump_truck: "the rear plate may be placed on the gate, no higher than 60 inches, for better visibility (§ 320.0706)"
+  exempt: "display is excused for described former military vehicles under § 320.086(5) (cross-referenced by § 316.605(1))"
+  mounting: "§ 316.605(1): securely fastened outside the main body, not higher than 60 in and not lower than 12 in from the ground, no more than 24 in left or right of the vehicle centreline, and not swinging; plainly visible and legible at 100 feet"
+  orientation: "§ 316.605(1): letters and numerals read left to right PARALLEL TO THE GROUND; no inverted or reversed display; nothing may be placed on the face of a Florida plate except as permitted by law or agency rule"
+  penalty: "violation of § 316.605(1) is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a NONMOVING violation; violation of § 320.0706 is punishable as a MOVING violation"
+  sources:
+    - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.06.html  # § 320.06(1)(a): one plate unless two required by s. 320.0706"
+    - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0316/Sections/0316.605.html  # § 316.605(1): display, mounting heights, 100-foot legibility, orientation, the face-of-plate rule, penalty"
+    - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.0706.html  # § 320.0706: 26,001 lb trucks front and rear; truck tractors FRONT ONLY; dump-truck gate rule"
+
+series:
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # THE STANDARD-ISSUE SERIES.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-fl-standard
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer]
+    period: { start: 2003 }        # the current base's reported introduction —
+                                   # December 2003 per the locator, whose table
+                                   # row carries NO footnote; see notes. NOT an
+                                   # agency or statutory date.
+    period_evidence: secondary-locator-unverified
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3} ?\d{3}\z'
+      regex_statutory: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9]){0,6}\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          § 320.06(1)(a): the department assigns 'a registration license number
+          consisting of letters and numerals or numerals'. § 320.06(3)(a): the plate
+          'must be imprinted with a combination of bold letters and numerals or
+          numerals, NOT TO EXCEED SEVEN DIGITS'. That is the whole statutory
+          constraint — Florida law fixes a MAXIMUM LENGTH and an alphabet, and
+          nothing else. No letter exclusions are stated anywhere in Chapter 320.
+      pattern_note: >-
+        `regex` encodes the CURRENT passenger arrangement (three letters, three
+        numerals). `regex_statutory` encodes what the STATUTE actually permits — up
+        to seven alphanumeric characters — and is the honest bound for any
+        Florida plate of unknown vintage. Historical and parallel Florida
+        arrangements reported by secondary sources (ABC D12, A12 3BC, 12A BCD,
+        123 4AB, AB1 2CD, A12 34B) all fall inside `regex_statutory`; they are NOT
+        given series of their own here because no primary establishing their
+        periods was obtained (recorded gap).
+      stacked_characters_note: "AAMVA treats stacked characters as part of the official number, at most two stacked. Florida's statute is silent on stacking; a normaliser must decide, and the decision belongs in the parse layer, not here."
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, w_mm: 304.8, h_mm: 152.4 }
+      plate_dimension_note: >-
+        § 320.06(3)(a), verbatim: the plate 'must be at least 6 inches wide and not
+        less than 12 inches in length, unless a plate with reduced dimensions is
+        deemed necessary by the department to accommodate motorcycles, mopeds,
+        similar smaller vehicles, or trailers'. Note the statute states MINIMA, and
+        note its axes read oddly ('6 inches wide', '12 inches in length') — the
+        conventional US plate is 12 in across by 6 in tall, recorded that way here.
+        The reduced motorcycle/moped/trailer sizes are set by DEPARTMENT DISCRETION,
+        not by statute, and were not obtained (recorded gap).
+      material: "metal, 'specially treated with a retroreflection material, as specified by the department', designed to increase nighttime visibility and legibility (§ 320.06(3)(a))"
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#006747"
+      colour_note: >-
+        NEITHER COLOUR IS IN THE STATUTE. § 320.06(3)(a) mandates a retroreflection
+        material and says nothing about hue. The reflective-white ground and green
+        characters are `hex_basis: observed`, taken from the design as depicted in
+        FLHSMV's own brochure (fetched, but its plates are raster images) and
+        corroborated only by a Wikipedia LOCATOR. Treat both hexes as unverified
+        pending a departmental rule or a colour spec in the Florida Administrative
+        Code.
+      legend_top: "FLORIDA"
+      legend_bottom_options: ["<county name>", "<state motto>", "Sunshine State"]
+      legend_rule: >-
+        § 320.06(3)(a), verbatim: 'The license plate must be imprinted with the word
+        "Florida" at the top and the name of the county in which it is sold, the
+        state motto, or the words "Sunshine State" at the bottom.' And: 'Any county
+        may, upon majority vote of the county commission, elect to have the county
+        name removed from the license plates sold in that county. The state motto or
+        the words "Sunshine State" shall be printed in lieu thereof.' So the
+        county-name legend is a COUNTY-LEVEL OPT-OUT, which means the bottom legend
+        is not a property of the series at all but of the selling county — a real
+        modelling wrinkle for a jurisdiction-keyed schema.
+      graphic: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "orange blossom over a state map, centred — observed from the official brochure images and a Wikipedia locator, NOT from a statutory drawing" }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+      validation_sticker: { position: "upper right corner of the plate", content: "owner's birth month, plate number, and year of expiration or the applicable renewal period where the owner is not a natural person", material: "retroreflection-treated, adhesive", source_note: "§ 320.06(1)(b)1" }
+      band: { side: none }
+      rear_differs: false
+      variants_offered: ["Sunshine State", "County Name", "In God We Trust (state motto)", "America 250"]
+      variants_note: >-
+        All four are STANDARD plates, all orderable as personalized, and all four are
+        confirmed present in FLHSMV's official brochure. They are recorded as
+        `variants_offered` rather than as four series because § 320.06(3)(a) makes
+        the bottom legend a choice within one statutory design — format, period and
+        everything else are identical.
+    replacement_cycle:
+      years: 10
+      statutory_text: "§ 320.06(1)(b)1: 'Registration license plates bearing a graphic symbol and the alphanumeric system of identification shall be issued for a 10-year period. At the end of the 10-year period, upon renewal, the plate shall be replaced. The department shall extend the scheduled license plate replacement date from a 6-year period to a 10-year period.'"
+      fee: "$28 replacement, prepaid at $2.80 per year and credited toward the next $28"
+      note: >-
+        FLORIDA LEGISLATED THE TOP OF AAMVA'S RANGE. AAMVA §1.1 recommends a cycle
+        'not to exceed 7 to 10 years'; Florida chose 10 and, in the same sentence,
+        recorded that it moved UP from 6. This is the answer to "is there a US
+        redesign cadence?" — there is no redesign schedule anywhere, only
+        per-state REPLACEMENT cycles, and here is one in statute.
+    registration_period: "12 months standard, 24 months extended, or permanent for qualifying rental vehicles and certain semitrailers provided the taxes and fees are paid annually; expirations key off the owner's BIRTH MONTH (§ 320.06(1)(b)1, (1)(c))"
+    region_encoding: "county name appears as a LEGEND, not as a code — it is printed text, is opt-out at county-commission level, and encodes nothing in the serial. There is no geographic decode in a Florida plate string."
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.06.html  # § 320.06(1)(a) one plate + 'letters and numerals or numerals'; (1)(b)1 the 10-year cycle, $28 fee, birth-month validation sticker; (1)(c) registration periods; (3)(a) 6x12 minimum, retroreflection, seven-character cap, FLORIDA top / county-motto-Sunshine State bottom, county opt-out"
+      - "https://www.flhsmv.gov/pdf/specialtyplates/FLPB.pdf  # official FLHSMV 'Florida License Plates' brochure, 27 pp — confirms the four standard variants: Sunshine State, County Name, In God We Trust (State Motto), America 250"
+      - "https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf  # AAMVA Ed.3 §1.1 replacement-cycle recommendation Florida's 10 years sits at the top of"
+      - "https://www.flhsmv.gov/2025/12/15/flhsmv-launches-america-250-license-plate/  # FLHSMV press release, 15 December 2025 (accessed 2026-08-02), verbatim: 'Unlike specialty plates, the America 250 plate serves as an alternative to the standard Florida license plate, with all regular fees applying.' — the agency's own words for the standard-variant relationship, and primary evidence the standard frame recorded here is current issue"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Florida  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4), re-checked 2026-08-02: the December 2003 introduction of the current base, the February 2026 rollout of its successor, and the seven historical serial arrangements ALL carry no footnote in the article's tables — folklore-grade. The 2003 start below is recorded as this locator's claim, flagged, not asserted as sourced."
+    notes: >-
+      FLORIDA STANDARD ISSUE ON THE CURRENT BASE. RE-DATED 2026-08-02: the L0
+      pass shipped `start: 2025`, the statute-edition year — an instrument date,
+      not a design date, and off by two decades. The current base (orange
+      graphic over a state map between the serial groups; county / motto /
+      Sunshine State bottom legends) is reported to have entered issuance in
+      DECEMBER 2003 by the Wikipedia table, WHOSE ROW CARRIES NO FOOTNOTE —
+      so `period_evidence: secondary-locator-unverified` and 2003 is the
+      locator's claim, flagged, not asserted (PRD-PLATES §9: primary-source-or-
+      marked). What WAS verified, and why nothing better exists to pin: (1)
+      FLHSMV has NO plate-history page — the department's full sitemap (3,988
+      URLs) was enumerated on 2026-08-02 and nothing on flhsmv.gov dates any
+      base; (2) the statute never dates or describes the design — § 320.06(3)(a)
+      mandates legends and retroreflection, never artwork, and its History line
+      has no 2003 entry (the design is departmental, not legislated); (3) the
+      base demonstrably remains current issue: the FLHSMV brochure (HSMV 80003,
+      Rev. 6/2026) shows it and the department's 15 December 2025 America 250
+      launch calls that plate 'an alternative to the standard Florida license
+      plate'. The reported FEBRUARY 2026 rollout of a successor base is equally
+      uncited in the locator and is NOT asserted — if it is real, it becomes a
+      new dated series when an agency primary lands. THE ID STAYS UNDATED under
+      the id contract: minting `us-fl-standard-2003` on a folklore boundary
+      would build a dated id on sand; when a primary lands, the dated id is
+      added and this id becomes its former-id alias (PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6).
+      THE IMMEDIATELY-PRIOR BASE (the green-serial county base the locator
+      dates to the late 1970s in several sub-forms) is deliberately NOT
+      authored: no primary and no CITED secondary dating it was found, and
+      inventing its period would be the exact disease this pass removes
+      (recorded gap, L4 work). SERIAL-ARRANGEMENT CAVEAT: `regex` encodes the
+      current three-letter/three-numeral arrangement only; the locator reports
+      several arrangements issued ON THIS SAME BASE since 2003 (A12 3BC from
+      2004, 123 ABC from 2009, ...), none with a citation — they remain inside
+      `regex_statutory` and are a recorded gap, per pattern_note.
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Count and official
+  # links only; no individual designs.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-fl-specialty-index
+    class: specialty
+    categories: [car, van, truck, motorcycle]
+    period: { start: 1995 }        # s. 2, ch. 95-282 created § 320.08056, the
+                                   # specialty-plate framework — the first
+                                   # entry in the section's History line.
+    period_evidence: statutory-creation-date
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3} ?\d{3}\z'
+      regex_statutory: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9]){0,6}\z'
+      charset: { notes: "specialty plates carry ORDINARY serials on an alternative design — the § 320.06(3)(a) seven-character cap and alphabet apply unchanged" }
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      note: "one design per authorised program; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+    program_index:
+      count_official: "over 100"
+      count_official_quote: "FLHSMV, in its own words: 'Florida offers over 100 different specialty license plates for various organizations in support of the causes they represent.'"
+      count_secondary: "over 120 per Wikipedia — LOCATOR ONLY, not reconciled with FLHSMV's own figure; the discrepancy is recorded, not averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3)"
+      official_list_url: "https://www.flhsmv.gov/motor-vehicles-tags-titles/personalized-specialty-license-plates/specialty-license-plates/"
+      official_catalogue_url: "https://www.flhsmv.gov/pdf/specialtyplates/FLPB.pdf"
+      official_military_catalogue_url: "https://www.flhsmv.gov/pdf/specialtyplates/military_brochure.pdf"
+      registration_counts_url: "https://services.flhsmv.gov/specialtyplates/"
+      registration_counts_note: >-
+        THE DIFFERENTIATOR NO COMPETITOR HAS. services.flhsmv.gov/specialtyplates/ is
+        a REPORTING PORTAL, not a gallery: it publishes a Monthly Active Specialty
+        Plates report ('all active registration as of the first of each month' —
+        active meaning a current/valid decal) and a Monthly Revenue Collections
+        report with three years of history. That is per-plate ISSUANCE VOLUME from
+        the issuing agency. No enthusiast site and no competing dataset carries
+        issuance volumes. The active-plate report explicitly has NO HISTORICAL DATA,
+        so it must be snapshotted monthly or the history is lost forever.
+      brochure_sections_observed: ["STANDARD", "SPECIALTY - COLLEGIATE", "SPECIAL - COMMERCIAL VEHICLE", "SPECIAL - FRONT END FOR EMERGENCY PERSONNEL", "SPECIAL - HISTORICAL VEHICLE", "SPECIAL - MISCELLANEOUS"]
+      special_requirement_subtype: "FLHSMV distinguishes SPECIAL REQUIREMENT plates as 'a subtype of specialty license plates' — those needing the registrant to furnish proof before purchase (military decorations, disabled veteran, etc.). Medal of Honor, Air Force Cross, Navy Cross, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross and World War II Veteran plates must be ordered through the Department, not a service centre."
+      churn_note: >-
+        § 320.08056(8)(a), verbatim (accessed 2026-08-02, closing the L0 pass's
+        recorded gap): 'The department must discontinue the issuance of an
+        approved specialty license plate if the number of valid specialty plate
+        registrations falls below 3,000, or in the case of an out-of-state
+        college or university license plate, 4,000, for at least 12 consecutive
+        months.' So the index is a moving target with authorised-but-dead
+        programs in it, and the churn threshold is now pinned.
+      gift_certificate_program: "FLHSMV authorises specialty-plate GIFT CERTIFICATES redeemable at any authorised motor-vehicle office; money passes to the sponsoring entity on purchase, so refunds are not available."
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.flhsmv.gov/motor-vehicles-tags-titles/personalized-specialty-license-plates/  # FLHSMV: 'Florida offers over 100 different specialty license plates'; the special-requirement subtype; the military-plate ordering rule; the gift-certificate program"
+      - "https://services.flhsmv.gov/specialtyplates/  # Monthly Active Specialty Plates report (no historical data) + Monthly Revenue Collections report (3-year history)"
+      - "https://www.flhsmv.gov/pdf/specialtyplates/FLPB.pdf  # the 27-page official catalogue and its section structure"
+      - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.08056.html  # § 320.08056: specialty plate authorisation, annual use fees, the (8)(a) discontinuation duty with its 3,000/4,000-registration threshold, and the History line whose first entry — 's. 2, ch. 95-282' — dates the framework to 1995 (accessed 2026-08-02)"
+    notes: >-
+      THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry standing for the whole program, which
+      is what PRD-PLATES §2.5 asks for at this gate. RE-DATED 2026-08-02:
+      `start: 1995` is the creation year of the § 320.08056 framework — the
+      section's History line opens 's. 2, ch. 95-282' (Laws of Florida 1995),
+      and a History note is part of the official statute publication, so this
+      is a statutory-creation-date claim on the FRAMEWORK the index stands for.
+      FOLKLORE FLAGGED, NOT ASSERTED: individual Florida specialty plates are
+      commonly said to predate the framework (the mid-1980s Challenger
+      commemorative is the standard story), but the pre-1995 authorisations
+      lived in predecessor sections and Laws of Florida before 1997 are not
+      served online — the pre-1995 program history is a recorded gap, and no
+      pre-1995 start is claimed for any individual program here. Two things
+      worth carrying forward. First, the count is CONTESTED: FLHSMV says over
+      100, Wikipedia says over 120, and the honest record is both figures with
+      their sources, not a split. Second, the monthly active-plate report is
+      the single most valuable structured artefact found in the whole US pass
+      and it is NOT archived by its publisher — a monthly capture job should be
+      scheduled before L2, because every month not captured is permanently gone.
+
+  - id: us-fl-personalized
+    class: personalized
+    categories: [car, van, truck, motorcycle]
+    period: { start: 1972 }        # ss. 1-9, ch. 72-80 created § 320.0805,
+                                   # 'Personalized prestige license plates' —
+                                   # the first entry in its History line.
+    period_evidence: statutory-creation-date
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLLLLLL"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{1,7}\z'
+      regex_statutory: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9]){0,6}\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          Owner-chosen inside the § 320.06(3)(a) frame, with the configuration
+          rules in § 320.0805 itself (accessed 2026-08-02), verbatim fragments:
+          'numerals from 1 to 999'; capital letters 'limited to a total of
+          seven of the same or different capital letters'; or 'no more than a
+          total of seven characters, including both numerals and capital
+          letters, in any combination, except that A HYPHEN MAY BE ADDED.'
+          Availability is checked through FLHSMV's Personalized License Plate
+          Inquiry before order.
+        hyphen_caveat: >-
+          THE STATUTORY HYPHEN IS RECORDED, NOT ENCODED. § 320.0805 permits one
+          hyphen INSIDE an owner-chosen configuration — which makes it part of
+          the plate's identity rather than a group gap, i.e. exactly the
+          glyph-inside-a-serial case PRD-PLATES §2.6 consequence 3 reserves for
+          a schema amendment (_meta/separators.yml never_separator), not a data
+          entry. No regex tier here accepts it yet; flagged for the separators
+          vocabulary owner. The closest existing precedent is the ES military
+          '-VE' note in _meta/separators.yml.
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#006747"
+      note: "any standard OR specialty design may be personalized — FLHSMV: 'Standard license plates listed above can be ordered as personalized'"
+    fee: "$15 additional annual fee per personalized plate; HSMV form 83043 completed and presented at a local office"
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.0805.html  # § 320.0805 'Personalized prestige license plates' (accessed 2026-08-02): the issuance mandate, the configuration rules quoted in charset, and the History line whose first entry — 'ss. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ch. 72-80' — dates the series to 1972"
+      - "https://www.flhsmv.gov/motor-vehicles-tags-titles/personalized-specialty-license-plates/  # personalized plates ordered in person, $15 annual fee, HSMV form 83043, the Personalized License Plate Inquiry availability service"
+      - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.06.html  # § 320.06(3)(a): the seven-character cap and alphabet a personalized configuration must fit"
+      - "https://www.flhsmv.gov/pdf/specialtyplates/FLPB.pdf  # 'Note: Standard license plates listed above can be ordered as personalized.'"
+    notes: >-
+      PERSONALIZED PLATES. RE-DATED 2026-08-02: `start: 1972` is the creation
+      year of § 320.0805 — its History line opens 'ss. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
+      9, ch. 72-80' (Laws of Florida 1972), i.e. the whole section was born as
+      that act, so the statutory-creation-date claim attaches to the series
+      itself, not merely to a section that later grew it. The L0 pass had
+      shipped the 2025 statute-edition year. Modelled as its own series because
+      the SERIAL SOURCE differs — owner-chosen rather than department-assigned
+      — which is a format property even though the character frame is
+      identical. The regex given is the letters-only shape most vanity
+      configurations take; regex_statutory is the § 320.06(3)(a) bound, and the
+      one statutory extra — the § 320.0805 hyphen — is recorded in
+      charset.hyphen_caveat as a schema question, not silently encoded.
+      Florida's content-refusal criteria are not in Chapter 320 and were not
+      obtained (recorded gap).
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # HISTORIC — Florida runs TWO permanent numeric series, both in statute, and
+  # they are among the best-specified series in the whole L0 pass.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-fl-horseless-carriage
+    class: historic
+    categories: [car]
+    period: { start: 1957 }        # s. 1, ch. 57-326 created § 320.086 — the
+                                   # first entry in its History line. Sentence-
+                                   # level caveat in notes.
+    period_evidence: statutory-creation-date
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "999"
+      regex: '\A\d+\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          § 320.086(1), verbatim: 'The registration numbers and special license plates
+          assigned to such motor vehicles shall run in a separate numerical series,
+          commencing with "Horseless Carriage No. 1"'. A SEPARATE NUMERICAL SERIES
+          with a stated origin and NO STATED WIDTH — hence the unbounded quantifier,
+          which makes no width claim. The § 320.06(3)(a) seven-character cap still
+          bounds it in practice.
+      progression: "strictly sequential from 1"
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      colour_note: >-
+        § 320.086(1) requires only that 'the plates shall be of a distinguishing
+        color' — the statute names NO colour, so none is recorded. This is the
+        cleanest example in the pilot of a legislature specifying a design PROPERTY
+        (distinctness) rather than a design VALUE.
+      legend: "Horseless Carriage"
+    eligibility: "motor vehicle for private use manufactured in MODEL YEAR 1945 OR EARLIER, operated on the state's streets and highways"
+    eligibility_history: >-
+      THE THRESHOLD MOVED ONCE, AND THE INSTRUMENT IS PINNED: until 1999 the
+      cutoff was 'manufactured in 1927 or earlier' (1997 edition of
+      § 320.086(1), verbatim), and ch. 99-248 s. 30, Laws of Florida, changed
+      it to 1945 — the chapter law's strike/underline text reads 'manufactured
+      in 1945 1927 or earlier' (underlined 1945, stricken 1927). Approved by
+      the Governor 8 June 1999; s. 319: 'Except as otherwise provided herein,
+      this act shall take effect upon becoming a law.' Vehicles of 1928-1945,
+      previously the separate 'Antique Vehicle' window, fold into this series
+      from 1999.
+    validity: "permanent — 'valid for use without renewal so long as the vehicle is in existence'"
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.086.html  # § 320.086(1): model year 1945 or earlier, the separate numerical series from 'Horseless Carriage No. 1', distinguishing colour, permanent validity, manufacture-cost fee; History line opening 's. 1, ch. 57-326; s. 1, ch. 59-206; ...' (accessed 2026-08-02)"
+      - "http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0320/SEC086.HTM&StatuteYear=1997  # the 1997 ARCHIVE EDITION of § 320.086 (accessed 2026-08-02): 'Horseless Carriage No. 1' series present verbatim; eligibility then 'manufactured in 1927 or earlier'; History line then ended at ch. 97-300"
+      - "http://laws.flrules.org/1999/248  # Laws of Florida ch. 99-248 (CS/CS/SB 1270), 142 pp, accessed 2026-08-02 — s. 30 amends § 320.086: '(1) ... manufactured in 1945 1927 or earlier' (strike/underline); s. 319 effective-on-becoming-law; approved by the Governor 8 June 1999"
+    notes: >-
+      HORSELESS CARRIAGE. RE-DATED 2026-08-02: `start: 1957` is the creation
+      year of § 320.086 — the History line opens 's. 1, ch. 57-326' (Laws of
+      Florida 1957) — replacing the L0 pass's 2025 statute-edition year.
+      SENTENCE-LEVEL CAVEAT, flagged for the verifier: the History note dates
+      the SECTION, and whether the 'Horseless Carriage No. 1' series label
+      stood in the 1957 act or arrived with the 1959 amendment (s. 1, ch.
+      59-206, the second History entry) cannot be resolved online — Laws of
+      Florida before 1997 are not served by laws.flrules.org (recorded gap;
+      the 1997 edition proves the label verbatim by 1997). Florida sets this
+      historic threshold by a FIXED MODEL YEAR rather than a rolling age — the
+      opposite design choice to the Antique series below, which is rolling, and
+      to Germany's H plate. A plates dataset must model both kinds of
+      threshold: fixed-cutoff eligibility never changes silently — though this
+      one moved BY INSTRUMENT once, 1927 to 1945 in 1999, see
+      eligibility_history — while rolling eligibility changes every year and
+      needs re-auditing. The Netherlands' pre-1978 dark-blue rule is the fixed
+      kind too.
+
+  - id: us-fl-antique
+    class: historic
+    categories: [car, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 1999 }        # ch. 99-248 s. 30 created the 'Antique'
+                                   # rolling series in its current name and
+                                   # form — by renaming the pre-1999
+                                   # 'Collectible' series. See notes.
+    period_evidence: statutory-enactment-date
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "999"
+      regex: '\A\d+\z'
+      charset: { notes: "§ 320.086(2)(a): 'shall run in a separate numerical series, commencing with \"Antique No. 1\"' — again a stated origin and no stated width" }
+      progression: "strictly sequential from 1"
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      colour_note: "'the plates shall be of a distinguishing color' — no value stated (§ 320.086(2)(a))"
+      legend: "Antique"
+    eligibility: "motor vehicle for private use manufactured in a model year AFTER 1945 and 'of the age of 30 years or more after the model year' — a ROLLING threshold. § 320.086(3) extends the same plates to ancient or antique firefighting apparatus, FORMER MILITARY VEHICLES and other historical motor vehicles 30 years old or older that are 'used only in exhibitions, parades, or public display', with permanent validity tied to that restricted use."
+    opt_out: "§ 320.086(2)(a): the owner may instead take 'a regular Florida license plate or specialty license plate in lieu of the special \"Antique\" license plate' — so an eligible vehicle need not be identifiable as antique at all"
+    superseded_variants:
+      - "permanent plates issued under this section BEFORE 1 October 1999 are maintained unless the vehicle transfers to a new owner (§ 320.086(2)(b))"
+      - "'Collectible' plates issued BEFORE 1 October 1999 may be retained until the next regularly scheduled replacement (§ 320.086(2)(b))"
+    predecessor_regimes: >-
+      PINNED FROM THE 1997 EDITION AND THE 1999 CHAPTER LAW: before ch. 99-248
+      the section ran THREE series — 'Horseless Carriage No. 1' (1927 or
+      earlier), 'ANTIQUE VEHICLE No. 1' (manufactured 1928-1945 inclusive, a
+      FIXED window, abolished in 1999 with its vehicles folded into the
+      widened Horseless Carriage), and 'COLLECTIBLE No. 1' (20-year ROLLING,
+      this series' direct predecessor). Ch. 99-248 s. 30 struck the Antique
+      Vehicle subsection, re-labelled the rolling series' commencement —
+      chapter-law coding: 'commencing with "Antique No. 1," "Collectible
+      No. 1,"' (underlined Antique, stricken Collectible) — and raised the
+      rolling age: 'of the age of 30 20 years or more after from the date of
+      manufacture'. Three regimes became two.
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.086.html  # § 320.086(2)(a) the rolling 30-year threshold, the 'Antique No. 1' series, distinguishing colour, the regular/specialty opt-out; (2)(b) the 1 October 1999 permanent and 'Collectible' transitions; (3) firefighting apparatus, former military and other historical vehicles; History line includes 's. 30, ch. 99-248' (accessed 2026-08-02)"
+      - "http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0320/SEC086.HTM&StatuteYear=1997  # the 1997 ARCHIVE EDITION (accessed 2026-08-02): 'Antique Vehicle No. 1' fixed 1928-1945 window and 'Collectible' 20-year rolling series — the two pre-1999 regimes this series replaced and continues"
+      - "http://laws.flrules.org/1999/248  # Laws of Florida ch. 99-248 s. 30 (accessed 2026-08-02): 'Antique No. 1' inserted for 'Collectible No. 1' stricken; '30 20 years'; approved by the Governor 8 June 1999, effective upon becoming law (s. 319); the (2)(b) transition keyed to 1 October 1999 enacted in the same section"
+      - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0316/Sections/0316.605.html  # § 316.605(1) cross-reference to s. 320.086(5), which EXEMPTS display of plates on described former military vehicles"
+    notes: >-
+      ANTIQUE. RE-DATED 2026-08-02, AND THE L0 READING CORRECTED: the L0 pass
+      inferred from § 320.086(2)(b)'s 1 October 1999 transition that 'the
+      series demonstrably predates that date'. The chapter law shows the
+      OPPOSITE: the 'Antique' label is itself the 1999 novelty — ch. 99-248
+      s. 30 (approved 8 June 1999, effective upon becoming law) created this
+      series in its current name and form by RENAMING the pre-1999
+      'Collectible' rolling series and raising its age threshold from 20 to 30
+      years, while abolishing the old fixed-window 'Antique Vehicle' series
+      (see predecessor_regimes). (2)(b) grandfathers plates issued under the
+      SECTION's earlier regimes, which is why it is written around 1 October
+      1999. So `start: 1999` is an instrument-dated claim. THE PREDECESSOR
+      ROLLING SERIES ('Collectible', 20-year) demonstrably existed by 1997
+      (archive edition) but its own creation year is unresolved among the
+      pre-1997 History entries (78-363, 83-318, 87-197, 96-413 are the
+      candidates) because Laws of Florida before 1997 are not served online —
+      recorded gap, NOT guessed. The 'Collectible' plate is a genuinely DEAD
+      series that is still lawfully on the road — exactly the case PRD-PLATES's
+      `ended: true` + `year_end_min:` semantics exist for; it is still not
+      given its own entry because no primary for its own FORMAT (as opposed to
+      its existence and closure) was obtained.
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # STATUTORY LEGEND SERIES. § 320.06(3)(a) mandates a specific bottom legend
+  # for five vehicle-tax classes. Each is a design difference on the standard
+  # serial, so each is its own series under PRD-PLATES §2.3.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-fl-apportioned
+    class: standard
+    categories: [truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 1997 }        # UPPER BOUND: the Apportioned legend stands
+                                   # verbatim in the 1997 archive edition, the
+                                   # earliest leg.state.fl.us serves. The L0
+                                   # pass's 2024 dated the 3-year CYCLE, not
+                                   # the series — see notes.
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3} ?\d{3}\z'
+      regex_statutory: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9]){0,6}\z'
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      legend_top: "FLORIDA"
+      legend_bottom: "Apportioned"
+      legend_rule: "§ 320.06(3)(a), verbatim: 'Apportioned license plates must have the word \"Apportioned\" at the bottom.'"
+      validation_sticker: { content: "month of expiration" }
+    replacement_cycle:
+      years: 3
+      statutory_text: "§ 320.06(1)(b)2: 'Beginning July 1, 2024, a vehicle registered in accordance with the International Registration Plan must be issued a license plate for a 3-year period. At the end of the 3-year period, upon renewal, the license plate must be replaced.'"
+      note: "a CAB CARD stating the declared gross vehicle weight per apportioned jurisdiction is issued annually, $28 original or renewal; a damaged or worn plate is replaced at no charge on surrender"
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.06.html  # § 320.06(1)(b)2: the IRP 3-year plate 'Beginning July 1, 2024', the annual cab card, the $28 fee, free replacement of damaged plates; (3)(a): the 'Apportioned' bottom legend"
+      - "http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0320/SEC06.HTM&StatuteYear=1997  # the 1997 ARCHIVE EDITION of § 320.06(3)(a) (accessed 2026-08-02), verbatim: '... except that apportioned license plates shall have the word \"Apportioned\" at the bottom' — the legend series existed by 1997, the earliest edition served"
+    notes: >-
+      APPORTIONED (International Registration Plan) PLATES. RE-DATED 2026-08-02,
+      AND THE L0 NOTE RETRACTED IN TERMS: that pass called this 'the one
+      Florida series with a properly dated start' on the strength of
+      § 320.06(1)(b)2's 'Beginning July 1, 2024' — but that date attaches to
+      the THREE-YEAR REPLACEMENT CYCLE for IRP vehicles, not to the series,
+      which the 1997 archive edition already carries verbatim. Dating a series
+      by a cycle amendment is the same instrument-date disease as dating it by
+      a statute edition. So: `start: 1997` is an UPPER BOUND (the earliest
+      edition leg.state.fl.us serves); the amendment that introduced the
+      Apportioned legend lies among the pre-1997 History entries of § 320.06
+      (Florida's IRP-era amendments — 81-151, 84-260, 85-176, 87-198 are
+      plausible candidates, none asserted) and is a recorded gap. The
+      instrument-dated cycle facts stay in replacement_cycle, where they
+      belong. Still the only Florida plate on a 3-year rather than a 10-year
+      cycle, and the only one whose sticker shows a month rather than the
+      owner's birth month — apportioned vehicles are fleet-registered, so the
+      birth-month scheme cannot apply.
+
+  - id: us-fl-restricted
+    class: standard
+    categories: [truck, trailer]
+    period: { start: 1997 }        # UPPER BOUND: legend verbatim in the 1997
+                                   # archive edition (with a wider trigger
+                                   # list — see notes).
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3} ?\d{3}\z'
+      regex_statutory: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9]){0,6}\z'
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      legend_top: "FLORIDA"
+      legend_bottom: "Restricted"
+      legend_rule: "§ 320.06(3)(a): plates for vehicles taxed under s. 320.08(3)(d), (4)(m) or (n), (5)(b) or (c), or (14) 'must have the word \"Restricted\" at the bottom'"
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.06.html  # § 320.06(3)(a): the 'Restricted' bottom legend and the exact list of § 320.08 tax paragraphs it applies to"
+      - "http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0320/SEC06.HTM&StatuteYear=1997  # the 1997 ARCHIVE EDITION (accessed 2026-08-02), verbatim: 'license plates issued for vehicles taxed under s. 320.08(3)(d), (4)(m) or (n), (5)(b) or (c), (12), or (14) shall have the word \"Restricted\" at the bottom' — the legend series existed by 1997"
+    notes: >-
+      RESTRICTED-USE PLATES. RE-DATED 2026-08-02: `start: 1997` is an UPPER
+      BOUND from the earliest archive edition served — the L0 pass had shipped
+      the 2025 edition year. TRIGGER-LIST DRIFT, recorded not resolved: the
+      1997 (and still the 1999, per ch. 99-248 s. 21) trigger list INCLUDED
+      s. 320.08(12) — the dealer/manufacturer tax paragraph — which the
+      current list omits; the amendment that carved (12) out of Restricted was
+      not identified (post-1999, recorded gap). The class is defined ENTIRELY
+      BY CROSS-REFERENCE to six paragraphs of the vehicle-tax schedule
+      (§ 320.08(3)(d), (4)(m), (4)(n), (5)(b), (5)(c), (14)), which were not
+      resolved to vehicle descriptions in this pass — the legend and its
+      trigger list are sourced, the underlying vehicle types are a recorded
+      gap. Categories are recorded conservatively.
+
+  - id: us-fl-dealer
+    class: dealer
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, trailer]
+    period: { start: 1997 }        # UPPER BOUND: legend verbatim in the 1997
+                                   # archive edition.
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3} ?\d{3}\z'
+      regex_statutory: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9]){0,6}\z'
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      legend_top: "FLORIDA"
+      legend_bottom: "Dealer"
+      legend_rule: >-
+        § 320.06(3)(a), verbatim: 'License plates issued for vehicles taxed under
+        s. 320.08(12) must be imprinted with the word "Florida" at the top and the
+        word "Dealer" at the bottom UNLESS the license plate is a specialty license
+        plate as authorized in s. 320.08056.' The exception matters: a Florida dealer
+        may run a SPECIALTY design instead of the Dealer legend, so absence of the
+        legend does not prove absence of dealer status.
+    binding: business
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.06.html  # § 320.06(3)(a): the 'Dealer' legend, the § 320.08(12) tax hook, and the specialty-plate exception"
+      - "http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0320/SEC06.HTM&StatuteYear=1997  # the 1997 ARCHIVE EDITION (accessed 2026-08-02): the Dealer legend sentence present verbatim — the legend series existed by 1997"
+      - "http://laws.flrules.org/1999/248  # ch. 99-248 s. 21 (accessed 2026-08-02): the Dealer sentence's then-trailing exception ', except that gross-vehicle-weight vehicles owned by a licensed motor vehicle dealer may be issued a license plate with the word \"Restricted\"' shown STRICKEN — deleted 1999; today's specialty-plate exception is a LATER insertion (unpinned, gap)"
+    notes: >-
+      DEALER PLATES. RE-DATED 2026-08-02: `start: 1997` is an UPPER BOUND from
+      the earliest archive edition served — the L0 pass had shipped the 2025
+      edition year. The dealer TAX CLASS (§ 320.08(12)) is far older than the
+      legend evidence; what this series records is the legend-bearing plate,
+      and 1997 bounds that. Sentence history actually pinned: ch. 99-248 s. 21
+      (1999) DELETED the original exception letting gross-vehicle-weight
+      dealer vehicles take a 'Restricted' plate; the CURRENT exception (a
+      specialty design may displace the Dealer legend, s. 320.08056 hook) was
+      inserted by a later, unidentified amendment (recorded gap). `binding:
+      business` for the same reason as Germany's rote Kennzeichen: the plate
+      follows the dealership, not a vehicle. The specialty carve-out is the
+      interesting fact and a trap for any classifier that keys off the legend.
+
+  - id: us-fl-manufacturer
+    class: dealer
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle]
+    period: { start: 1999 }        # the Manufacturer sentence is INSERTED
+                                   # (underline-coded) by ch. 99-248 s. 21 and
+                                   # absent from the 1997 edition — an exact
+                                   # birth instrument. See notes.
+    period_evidence: statutory-enactment-date
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3} ?\d{3}\z'
+      regex_statutory: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9]){0,6}\z'
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      legend_top: "FLORIDA"
+      legend_bottom: "Manufacturer"
+      legend_rule: "§ 320.06(3)(a): 'Manufacturer license plates issued for vehicles taxed under s. 320.08(12) must be imprinted with the word \"Florida\" at the top and the word \"Manufacturer\" at the bottom.' Note it takes NO specialty exception, unlike the Dealer legend in the immediately preceding sentence."
+    binding: business
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.06.html  # § 320.06(3)(a): the 'Manufacturer' legend under the same § 320.08(12) tax hook as Dealer, without the specialty exception"
+      - "http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0320/SEC06.HTM&StatuteYear=1997  # the 1997 ARCHIVE EDITION (accessed 2026-08-02): the word 'Manufacturer' does NOT appear in § 320.06 — negative half of the birth-instrument pin"
+      - "http://laws.flrules.org/1999/248  # Laws of Florida ch. 99-248 s. 21 (accessed 2026-08-02), the sentence INSERTED (underline-coded): 'Manufacturer license plates issued for vehicles taxed under s. 320.08(12) must be imprinted with the word \"Florida\" at the top and the word \"Manufacturer\" at the bottom.' Approved by the Governor 8 June 1999; s. 319: effective upon becoming a law"
+    notes: >-
+      MANUFACTURER PLATES. RE-DATED 2026-08-02, AND THE ONE FLORIDA LEGEND WITH
+      AN EXACT BIRTH INSTRUMENT: absent from the 1997 edition of § 320.06, and
+      inserted by ch. 99-248 s. 21, Laws of Florida (underline-coded in the
+      chapter law; approved by the Governor 8 June 1999, effective upon
+      becoming law per s. 319). Both halves — the 1997 absence and the 1999
+      insertion — are cited above, so `start: 1999` is a real claim, not a
+      bound. Its own series and not a variant of the dealer plate because the
+      statute draws the distinction itself, in adjacent sentences, and because
+      only the Dealer legend may be displaced by a specialty design. CLASS
+      CAVEAT: recorded as `dealer` — _meta/classes.yml has no `manufacturer`
+      value, and the PRD's definition of dealer ('trade/garage plates bound to
+      a business, not a vehicle') fits the binding but not the trade.
+
+  - id: us-fl-wrecker
+    class: standard
+    categories: [truck]
+    period: { start: 1997 }        # UPPER BOUND: legend verbatim in the 1997
+                                   # archive edition.
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3} ?\d{3}\z'
+      regex_statutory: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9]){0,6}\z'
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      legend_top: "FLORIDA"
+      legend_bottom: "Wrecker"
+      legend_rule: "§ 320.06(3)(a): 'License plates issued for vehicles taxed under s. 320.08(5)(d) or (e) must be imprinted with the word \"Wrecker\" at the bottom.'"
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/0320.06.html  # § 320.06(3)(a): the 'Wrecker' bottom legend and its § 320.08(5)(d)-(e) tax hook"
+      - "http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0320/SEC06.HTM&StatuteYear=1997  # the 1997 ARCHIVE EDITION (accessed 2026-08-02), verbatim: 'License plates issued for vehicles taxed under s. 320.08(5)(d) or (e) must be imprinted with the word \"Wrecker\" at the bottom' — the legend series existed by 1997"
+    notes: >-
+      WRECKER (tow truck) PLATES. RE-DATED 2026-08-02: `start: 1997` is an
+      UPPER BOUND from the earliest archive edition served — the L0 pass had
+      shipped the 2025 edition year; the introducing amendment lies among the
+      pre-1997 History entries of § 320.06 (recorded gap). Completes the five
+      statutory bottom legends — Apportioned, Restricted, Dealer, Manufacturer,
+      Wrecker — which together are the whole of Florida's legend taxonomy and,
+      notably, are legislated rather than left to departmental design; four of
+      the five stood by 1997, and Manufacturer was born 1999 (ch. 99-248).
+      CLASS CAVEAT: no `commercial` or `tow` class exists in the vocabulary;
+      recorded as `standard` with the legend carrying the meaning.