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+# plates/us-gu.yml — Guam (PRD-PLATES gate L2, territories group).
+#
+# GUAM IS THE BEST-LEGISLATED PLATE REGIME IN THIS GROUP AND ONE OF THE BEST IN
+# THE WHOLE US PASS. Title 16 of the Guam Code Annotated, Chapter 7 ("Vehicle
+# License and Registration", §§ 7101-7180) legislates the things most US states
+# leave to a department: how many plates, what words are on them, that dealer
+# and trailer numbers run in SEPARATE NUMERICAL SERIES, what a dealer-issued
+# temporary plate must say and in what letter height, and — uniquely in this
+# dataset so far — A TABLE OF RESERVED PLATE NUMBERS FOR NAMED PUBLIC OFFICES.
+# The Code is served by the Compiler of Laws at col.guamcourts.gov, updated
+# through P.L. 38-085 (Dec. 20, 2025), compilation stamp COL 2026-04-23.
+#
+# THE ONE THING GUAM DOES NOT LEGISLATE IS THE DESIGN, and it says so:
+# § 7120(c) leaves plates "such size as the Director of Revenue and Taxation may
+# determine". THE OBVIOUS PLACE TO LOOK NEXT IS THE ADMINISTRATIVE RULES — and
+# there is a clean, citable NEGATIVE there: 30 GAR Div. 2 Chapter 6, "Vehicle
+# Registration", reads in its entirety "(No rules filed.)". Guam's registration
+# regime has NO administrative regulations at all. So every design, colour and
+# serial-arrangement fact below is either statutory or is marked as
+# secondary-corroborated; there is no third layer of Guam law to go and get.
+#
+# WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT HERE (PRD-PLATES §2.5): individual specialty DESIGNS.
+# `us-gu-specialty-index` indexes the statutory programmes and nothing more.
+jurisdiction: us-gu
+authority:
+  name: Guam Department of Revenue and Taxation (DRT), Motor Vehicle Division
+  url: "https://col.guamcourts.gov/guam-code-annotated/guam-code-annotated"
+binding: vehicle
+statute_edition: >-
+  16 GCA (Vehicles), Chapter 7, as compiled by the Guam Compiler of Laws —
+  "UPDATED THROUGH P.L. 38-085 (DECEMBER 20, 2025)", compilation stamp
+  COL 2026-04-23. A 2026 compiler note records that under 11 GCA § 1105 all
+  references to "Department of Finance" read as "Department of Revenue and
+  Taxation" — which is why the issuing agency in a 1952-vintage section is DRT.
+authority_url_note: >-
+  DRT's own public site (guamtax.com) was UNREACHABLE from this environment on
+  every attempt (connection reset, both schemes). The authority URL therefore
+  points at the Compiler of Laws' Guam Code Annotated index, which is the
+  primary-source home of every claim in this file. Recorded as a dead end, not
+  papered over.
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4 / §7.1.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+artwork_risk:
+  posture: unresearched-presumed-protected
+  basis: >-
+    NO EVIDENCE EITHER WAY WAS LOCATED, and the honest reading of that silence is
+    adverse rather than neutral. Two things are established. First, US federal
+    copyright law APPLIES IN GUAM: the US Copyright Office states that "US
+    federal copyright law applies in the US Virgin Islands, Guam, and the
+    Northern Mariana Islands but not in American Samoa", so Guam is inside the
+    Copyright Act's geographic scope. Second, the federal §105 public-domain rule
+    does not reach territorial governments any more than it reaches states, and
+    NO Commons PD tag exists for the government of Guam — Template:PD-GuamGov
+    returns 404. The tag that does exist for territories,
+    {{PD-USGov-Unincorporated}}, is expressly for UNORGANIZED territories; Guam is
+    an ORGANIZED unincorporated territory and is not covered by it.
+  conclusion: >-
+    Treat Guam plate ARTWORK as presumptively protected, in the same bucket the
+    US/world dossier assigned to Texas and Delaware: "not established — treat as
+    default (copyrighted)". No Guam statute, executive order or AG opinion on
+    government-work copyright was searched for successfully in this pass; that is
+    a recorded gap, and a real one, because the latte stone and bougainvillea
+    graphic is the whole visual identity of the current plate.
+  edicts: >-
+    The offsetting fact, and it is the one this file is built on: EDICTS OF
+    GOVERNMENT are public domain at every level ({{PD-US-GovEdict}}). 16 GCA is
+    an edict. Guam's plate is therefore legally safe to DESCRIBE in full detail
+    from the statute even though its ARTWORK is not cleared — which is exactly
+    the split PRD-PLATES §4 anticipates.
+  emblem_rule: >-
+    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies without exception to the LATTE
+    STONE and BOUGAINVILLEA graphic and to the Seal of Guam. Render
+    `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`. Do not upgrade until a Guam
+    government-works copyright posture is affirmatively established AND the
+    _art ledger clears the specific asset.
+  photograph_caution: >-
+    plateshack.com's Guam page carries an explicit notice — "Copyright 1997-2006.
+    Please ask permission before using any images" — which is a rarity in the
+    enthusiast landscape and is respected absolutely: no image was copied, and
+    the page was used only to corroborate which series exist.
+  sources:
+    - "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/United_States  # the US Copyright Office position that federal copyright law applies in Guam; the US Territories tag list, which contains {{PD-PRGov}} and {{PD-American Samoa}} but NOTHING for Guam; and the statement that {{PD-USGov-Unincorporated}} covers UNORGANIZED territories only"
+    - "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-GuamGov  # HTTP 404 — a measured negative: no Commons public-domain tag exists for the government of Guam"
+    - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf  # 16 GCA ch. 7 — an edict of government, PD at every level, and the source of every factual claim below"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# The US standards chain. NOTHING here quotes SAE J686 (paywalled, unpinned).
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+us_standards:
+  no_federal_mandate: true
+  guam_position: >-
+    Guam legislates its own plate frame and does not reference AAMVA or SAE
+    anywhere in 16 GCA ch. 7. § 7120(c)'s "such size as the Director of Revenue
+    and Taxation may determine" is an express delegation to a Guam official, not
+    an adoption of an external standard. AAMVA geometry is recorded below as
+    context only.
+  aamva_edition_3:
+    dimensions_delegated: "AAMVA §3.1 delegates dimensions and bolt holes to SAE J686, whose text is PAYWALLED and was NOT obtained. No J686 dimension is quoted here."
+    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 top and bottom edges"
+    jurisdiction_name_layout: "AAMVA §2.1: jurisdiction name top centre between the bolt holes — which is where 16 GCA § 7120(b)'s mandatory word 'Guam' in fact appears"
+    replacement_cycle: "AAMVA §1.1 recommends a 7-10 year replacement cycle. Guam legislates NO replacement cycle; § 7135 instead expires every plate annually with the registration and offers 'a new plate OR DEVICE indicating registration for the coming year', so Guam's plates can and do outlive many replacement cycles behind a validation device."
+    source: "https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Display rules — statutory, and Guam is a TWO-PLATE jurisdiction by statute.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+display_rules:
+  default: >-
+    TWO plates, front and rear. § 7120(a), verbatim: "Upon registering a vehicle,
+    the Department of Revenue and Taxation shall issue to the owner two (2)
+    license plates (one front and one rear) for a motor vehicle." § 7129(a) then
+    requires that they "be attached to the front and rear thereof and shall not be
+    covered with plastic or other coverings if thereby the license numbers and
+    letters are not clearly visible."
+  mounting: >-
+    § 7129(b): every plate "securely fastened to the vehicle for which it is
+    issued so as to prevent the plate from swinging, and at a minimum distance of
+    twelve (12) inches from the ground in a position to be clearly visible. Every
+    license plate shall be maintained free from foreign materials and in a
+    condition to be clearly legible." Note Guam sets a MINIMUM height only — no
+    maximum, unlike Florida's 60-inch cap.
+  mandatory_content: >-
+    § 7120(b): every plate "shall have displayed upon it the registration number
+    assigned to the vehicle for which it is issued together with THE WORD 'GUAM'
+    and THE YEAR NUMBER for which it is issued OR a suitable device issued by the
+    Department for validation purposes, which device shall contain the year
+    number for which issued." So the legend "Guam" is statutory, and the year is
+    statutory but satisfiable by a sticker.
+  shape: "§ 7120(c): 'License plates shall be rectangular in shape and such size as the Director of Revenue and Taxation may determine.' Shape legislated, size delegated."
+  devices_in_lieu: >-
+    § 7125: the Department "may issue one (1) or more stickers or other suitable
+    devices IN LIEU OF the license plates provided under this Title", and all
+    plate provisions apply to them except where physically inapplicable. A
+    jurisdiction that can lawfully replace the plate with a sticker is a genuine
+    edge case for a plate dataset and is recorded as such.
+  expiration: >-
+    § 7130(a)-(b): registration renews ANNUALLY on a STAGGERED monthly schedule
+    set by the Director, expiring at midnight on the last day of the assigned
+    month. § 7135(a): "Every license plate and special plate issued under this
+    Title expires at midnight on the last day of the month in which the
+    registration expires each year."
+  sources:
+    - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf  # § 7120(a) two plates front and rear; (b) the mandatory 'Guam' legend and year number or validation device; (c) rectangular shape, size at the Director's discretion; § 7125 stickers or devices in lieu of plates; § 7129(a)-(b) front-and-rear attachment, no obscuring covers, no swinging, 12-inch minimum height, legibility; § 7130 annual staggered registration; § 7135 annual plate expiry and renewal window"
+
+series:
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # THE STANDARD-ISSUE SERIES — current base, and the one before it.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-gu-standard-2009
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 2009 }
+    period_evidence: secondary-corroborated
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LL 9999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{2} ?\d{4}\z'
+      regex_statutory: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          16 GCA STATES NO SERIAL GRAMMAR AT ALL for the standard plate. § 7120(b)
+          requires only "the registration number assigned to the vehicle", and
+          § 7123(c) — the personalised-plate section — is the only place in the
+          chapter that quantifies anything, capping a personalised configuration
+          at seven positions. `regex_statutory` therefore carries no width claim.
+      pattern_note: >-
+        THE TWO-LETTER / FOUR-NUMERAL ARRANGEMENT IS NOT STATUTORY. It is
+        recorded from a Wikipedia LOCATOR and independently corroborated by
+        worldlicenseplates' Guam page, which lists a discrete "2009 Series" among
+        Guam's plate generations. `matching: strict` because the arrangement lies
+        INSIDE the (empty) statutory constraint and a match is a real claim about
+        this series; the outer bound is `regex_statutory`.
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, w_mm: 304.8, h_mm: 152.4 }
+      plate_dimension_note: >-
+        NOT STATUTORY. § 7120(c) makes size a decision of the Director of Revenue
+        and Taxation, and 30 GAR Div. 2 ch. 6 records that no registration rules
+        have ever been filed — so there is no Guam instrument fixing the
+        dimension. 12 x 6 in is the reported North American convention, marked as
+        reported.
+      material: "aluminium (reported)"
+      background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed-secondary }
+      foreground: "#000000"
+      colour_note: >-
+        Neither colour is in any Guam instrument. Embossed black on reflective
+        white is `hex_basis: observed-secondary`, from a Wikipedia locator
+        corroborated by worldlicenseplates' series listing.
+      legend_top: "GUAM"
+      legend_top_basis: "STATUTORY — § 7120(b) requires the word 'Guam' on every plate. This is one of the few legend claims in the whole US dataset that comes from an edict rather than from a photograph."
+      legend_bottom_reported: "Tano Y Chamorro"
+      graphic: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "grey latte stone with three red bougainvillea flowers, centred — locator-grade description, NOT from any statutory or regulatory drawing" }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+      mounting_holes_reported: "one round hole top right, horizontal slots in the other three corners — the same arrangement reported for Hawaii and the Northern Marianas; locator-grade"
+      band: { side: none }
+      rear_differs: false
+    validation: "§ 7120(b) permits a validation DEVICE bearing the year in place of an embossed year number; § 7135(a) expires it annually with the registration"
+    region_encoding: >-
+      CONTESTED, AND RECORDED RATHER THAN AVERAGED (PRD-PLATES §5.3). The
+      Wikipedia locator says the current AB 1234 serial is "coded by
+      municipality". worldlicenseplates, describing the PREVIOUS (1994) series,
+      says something materially different and narrower: "The last three letters on
+      COMMERCIAL plates designate the municipality, shown are FAP (Fort Apugan) and
+      MLL (Mount Lamlam). Others exist." Those are two different claims about two
+      different series and two different vehicle classes. NO decode table is
+      asserted here, and none should be published until a Guam primary is found.
+    sources:
+      - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf  # § 7120(a)-(c): two plates, the mandatory 'Guam' legend and year/device, rectangular shape and delegated size — the entire statutory content of a Guam standard plate"
+      - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/30GAR002-5_8.pdf  # 30 GAR Div. 2 ch. 6 'VEHICLE REGISTRATION — (No rules filed.)', with the rule-making-authority note citing 16 GCA §§ 7105, 7108, 7143, 7174. THE MEASURED NEGATIVE: Guam has no administrative regulations on vehicle registration or plates, so the statute is the whole of Guam's written plate law"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Guam  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the Feb 27 2009 issue date, the AB 1234 arrangement, the latte-stone/bougainvillea graphic, the 'Tano Y Chamorro' slogan, the 12x6 in aluminium construction, the mounting-hole arrangement, and the 'coded by municipality' claim"
+      - "http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/PA_GUAM.html  # CORROBORATION + GAP-FINDER: an independent listing of Guam's plate generations as '1986 Series / 1994 Series / 2009 Series', which is what makes the 2009 boundary secondary-CORROBORATED rather than single-sourced; and the finding that on the 1994 series it is the COMMERCIAL plates whose last three letters encode the municipality (FAP Fort Apugan, MLL Mount Lamlam). No licence statement on the site — treated as all rights reserved, facts only, no text or images copied"
+      - "https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf  # AAMVA Ed.3 §2.1: the top-centre jurisdiction-name placement Guam's statutory 'Guam' legend in fact occupies"
+    notes: >-
+      GUAM STANDARD ISSUE, CURRENT BASE. THE PERIOD IS THE WEAKEST CLAIM IN THIS
+      ENTRY AND IS LABELLED AS SUCH: `period_evidence: secondary-corroborated`
+      means two independent secondary sources agree on a 2009 boundary and NO
+      primary was found — Guam files no registration regulations, DRT's site was
+      unreachable, and 16 GCA is design-silent by construction. It is minted as a
+      dated series (rather than left undated as in Florida and Puerto Rico) only
+      because two independent sources agree AND because the previous base has a
+      demonstrably different serial arrangement, so the boundary is a format
+      boundary and not merely a styling change. THE STRENGTH OF THIS ENTRY IS
+      ELSEWHERE: the two-plate rule, the mandatory word "Guam", the year-or-device
+      rule and the rectangular shape are all quoted from an edict of government.
+
+  - id: us-gu-standard-1994
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 1994, end: 2009 }
+    period_evidence: secondary-corroborated
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3} ?\d{1,3}\z'
+      regex_statutory: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      charset: { notes: "no statutory grammar; the locator describes the numeric group as VARIABLE in width, which is why the quantifier is {1,3} rather than {3}" }
+      pattern_note: "the pattern shows the widest printed form; the regex admits the narrower forms the locator reports"
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+      note: "design not described here beyond its existence — the preceding base's artwork is L4 scope and its evidence is a photograph, not an instrument"
+    region_encoding: >-
+      THE ONE PLACE A GUAM DECODE CLAIM HAS ANY SPECIFICITY, and it is narrower
+      than the popular version: worldlicenseplates states that on this series the
+      LAST THREE LETTERS OF COMMERCIAL PLATES designate the municipality, giving
+      FAP (Fort Apugan) and MLL (Mount Lamlam) as examples and noting others
+      exist. That is a claim about commercial plates only. It is recorded, not
+      built into a decode table, because it is single-sourced and because the
+      surviving example codes do not obviously map to Guam's nineteen villages.
+    sources:
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Guam  # LOCATOR ONLY: the 1994 to Feb 26 2009 window, the ABC 123 arrangement with variable digits, and the 'coded by village' claim"
+      - "http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/PA_GUAM.html  # CORROBORATION: an independent '1994 Series' listing, and the narrower and more specific municipality-coding claim quoted in region_encoding"
+      - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf  # § 7120 — the statutory frame this series sat inside, unchanged across the boundary: the same two-plate rule, the same mandatory 'Guam' legend, the same delegated size"
+    notes: >-
+      GUAM'S PREVIOUS STANDARD BASE — the "one series back" PRD-PLATES §7 asks for
+      at L2. IT IS MINTED WITH ITS EVIDENCE GRADE ON ITS FACE. Both boundaries are
+      secondary; no Guam instrument marks either. The reason it earns a series
+      rather than a note is that the SERIAL ARRANGEMENT CHANGED at the boundary
+      (three letters and up to three numerals, versus two letters and four
+      numerals), so a parse API that treats Guam as one grammar will
+      systematically misread one generation or the other. THE FOLKLORE FLAG:
+      "coded by village" is repeated for Guam the way "1956 AMA agreement" is
+      repeated for plate sizes. The only specific evidence found says something
+      different — commercial plates, last three letters, municipality — and the two
+      claims are recorded side by side rather than merged.
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # CORE DISTINCT CLASSES — all statutory, and several of them are specified
+  # far more tightly than the standard plate is.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-gu-trailer
+    class: trailer
+    categories: [trailer]
+    period: { start: 1952 }
+    period_evidence: statutory-enactment-date
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "9999"
+      regex: '\A\d+\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          § 7126, verbatim: "License plates issued for trailers, semi-trailers,
+          bicycles with motor attached, pole and pipe dollies and such vehicles as
+          are exempt from the payment of registration fees under this Title shall
+          display suitable marks or symbols, and THE REGISTRATION NUMBERS ASSIGNED
+          TO EACH SUCH CLASS OF VEHICLES SHALL RUN IN A SEPARATE NUMERICAL SERIES,
+          except that the registration numbers assigned to such vehicles as are
+          exempt from the payment of registration fees may run in several separate
+          numerical series." A separate NUMERICAL series with NO STATED WIDTH —
+          hence the unbounded quantifier, which makes no width claim.
+      progression: "separate numerical series per class of vehicle; fee-exempt vehicles may run in several such series"
+    design:
+      plate: { note: "size delegated to the Director under § 7120(c); no Guam instrument fixes it" }
+      marks: "§ 7126 requires 'suitable marks or symbols' distinguishing the class — the statute names the requirement and not the mark"
+      emblem: { present: false }
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf  # § 7126 (GC § 23321, enacted P.L. 1-088, Nov. 29, 1952): the separate numerical series for trailers, semi-trailers, motor bicycles, pole and pipe dollies and fee-exempt vehicles, and the 'suitable marks or symbols' requirement; § 7124 (added P.L. 14-075:4, Nov. 9, 1977, amended P.L. 29-002, May 18, 2007) separately requires DRT to register and plate a bicycle equipped with a motor at $20 initial and $20 annual"
+    notes: >-
+      TRAILERS AND THE FEE-EXEMPT FAMILY. This entry exists because § 7126 does
+      something a plate dataset can actually use: it makes the SEPARATE NUMERICAL
+      SERIES a legal fact rather than an observed practice. That is the same
+      statutory shape as Florida's "Horseless Carriage No. 1" and it deserves the
+      same treatment — an unbounded numeric regex that claims a form and not a
+      width. NOTE THE SWEEP: Guam puts trailers, semi-trailers, motorised bicycles
+      and pole/pipe dollies in one provision, and separately allows the fee-exempt
+      population to be split across SEVERAL numerical series, so "one Guam trailer
+      grammar" is not a safe assumption.
+
+  - id: us-gu-dealer
+    class: dealer
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, trailer]
+    period: { start: 1952 }
+    period_evidence: statutory-enactment-date
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          § 7128(b)-(c) describes the STRUCTURE without giving the grammar: dealer
+          plates "shall be numbered in a separate numerical series and bear a
+          suitable mark or symbol"; the Department issues plates "which shall have
+          displayed thereon the general distinguishing number assigned to the
+          applicant", and "each plate or pair of plates so issued shall also
+          contain a number or symbol identifying the same from every other plate or
+          pair of plates bearing a like general distinguishing number." So the
+          serial is composite — a per-DEALER number plus a per-PLATE discriminator
+          — and no width or alphabet is stated for either part.
+      pattern_note: >-
+        ILLUSTRATIVE PATTERN, STATUTORY-BOUND REGEX. `matching: recall-only`
+        because the regex is deliberately wider than anything Guam issues: a match
+        is a shape hit and never a claim that the string is a valid Guam dealer
+        plate. The composite structure above is the thing to encode when a Guam
+        primary finally gives the grammar.
+    design:
+      plate: { note: "size delegated under § 7120(c)" }
+      marks: "§ 7128(b): 'a suitable mark or symbol'"
+      emblem: { present: false }
+    binding: business
+    eligibility: >-
+      § 7127: a dealer or distributor may operate an otherwise-registrable vehicle
+      on the highways WITHOUT REGISTERING IT "solely for the purpose of testing,
+      demonstrating, repairing, delivering, servicing, storing or selling such
+      vehicle", on condition that a special plate issued to that owner is
+      displayed. § 7128(a) requires a written application with proof of bona fide
+      dealer or distributor status; § 7128(b) requires DRT to issue a CERTIFICATE
+      listing the plates assigned.
+    fee: "§ 7170: forty dollars ($40.00) for each special plate issued to or renewed by a dealer or distributor"
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf  # § 7127 (GC § 23322, P.L. 1-088, Nov. 29, 1952) the seven permitted dealer uses and the display condition; § 7128 (GC § 23323, P.L. 1-088, amended P.L. 5-017:2, Mar. 13, 1959) the written application, the certificate listing assigned plates, the separate numerical series with a suitable mark or symbol, and the composite general-distinguishing-number-plus-discriminator structure; § 7170 (amended P.L. 29-002:V:I:45, May 18, 2007) the $40 fee"
+    notes: >-
+      DEALER PLATES. `binding: business` — the plate follows the licensed dealer,
+      not a vehicle. THE INTERESTING STRUCTURAL FACT is § 7128(c)'s composite
+      serial: a "general distinguishing number" identifies the DEALER and a further
+      number or symbol distinguishes each plate WITHIN that dealer's allocation.
+      That is a two-level namespace inside a single plate serial, and it is the
+      kind of thing a parse API can decode once the grammar is known — so the
+      absence of the grammar is flagged as a high-value gap rather than shrugged off.
+
+  - id: us-gu-temporary
+    class: temporary
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle]
+    period: { start: 2014 }
+    period_evidence: statutory-enactment-date
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          NO SERIAL AT ALL IS PRESCRIBED — and that is the point. § 7179(c)
+          prescribes CONTENT instead: the dealer or distributor "shall mark or
+          stamp thereon with indelible ink IN LETTERS AT LEAST THREE-FOURTHS (3/4)
+          OF AN INCH HIGH" (1) the words "Guam Temporary Registration"; (2) the
+          dealer's or distributor's name; (3) the date of issuance; (4) the date of
+          expiration; and (5) the year, make, model and VIN of the vehicle. A Guam
+          temporary plate is a FORM, not a serial — which is why the regex is a
+          catch-all and `matching` is recall-only.
+      pattern_note: "illustrative only; there is no Guam temporary-plate serial grammar to encode"
+    design:
+      plate: { note: "size delegated; § 7179(c) fixes a MINIMUM CHARACTER HEIGHT of 0.75 in for the marked content — the only character-height figure in the whole of Guam's plate law" }
+      legend_top: "GUAM TEMPORARY REGISTRATION"
+      legend_basis: "STATUTORY — § 7179(c)(1) prescribes the exact words"
+      emblem: { present: false }
+    validity: >-
+      § 7179(e): valid for SIXTY (60) DAYS from issuance, or until a permanent
+      registration plate issues, or until the purchase contract is cancelled or
+      rescinded — whichever occurs FIRST.
+    issuer: >-
+      NOT THE DEPARTMENT. § 7179(a)-(b): DRT AUTHORISES dealers and distributors of
+      motor vehicles, motorcycles and commercial vehicles to ISSUE the plates
+      themselves, for a fee of not more than ten dollars ($10) each, to purchasers
+      of unregistered vehicles. § 7179(d) requires the dealer to keep a five-field
+      record for at least three years, open to Department inspection in business
+      hours.
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf  # § 7179 (added P.L. 32-156:2, May 21, 2014): dealer authorisation to issue, the $10 cap, the five mandatory marked fields, the 0.75-inch minimum letter height, the three-way 60-day validity rule, and the three-year dealer record-keeping duty; § 7104 (GC § 23303, P.L. 1-088, amended P.L. 29-002, 2007) separately empowers DRT itself to grant a temporary PERMIT pending action on a registration application, at $5 (Permit A) or $10 (Permit B)"
+    notes: >-
+      GUAM TEMPORARY REGISTRATION PLATES — and the cleanest statutory date in this
+      file. `period_evidence: statutory-enactment-date` with a real instrument
+      behind it: P.L. 32-156:2, May 21, 2014. TWO THINGS MAKE THIS SERIES WORTH
+      SPECCING. First, GUAM DELEGATES ISSUANCE TO PRIVATE DEALERS, so the "issuing
+      authority" for a Guam temporary plate is a car dealership operating under a
+      DRT authorisation — a binding that a jurisdiction-keyed schema has to be
+      told about. Second, the plate carries NO SERIAL: its identity is the dealer
+      name plus the VIN plus two dates. Any parser that expects a registration mark
+      here will find a form instead, and `matching: recall-only` is the honest
+      signal for that.
+
+  - id: us-gu-government-officials
+    class: government
+    categories: [car]
+    period: { start: 1971 }
+    period_evidence: statutory-enactment-date
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "9"
+      regex: '\A\d(?:-[A-Z])?\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          THE ONLY FULLY-SPECIFIED SERIAL GRAMMAR IN GUAM'S PLATE LAW, and it is
+          specified by ENUMERATION rather than by rule. § 7122 assigns: "1" to
+          I Maga'haga/Maga'lahi (the Governor); "1-A" to I Sigundo
+          Maga'haga/Maga'lahi (the Lieutenant Governor); "2" to the Speaker; "2-A"
+          to the Vice-Speaker; "2-B" to the Legislative Secretary; "2-C through
+          2-Z" to Senators; "3" to the District Court Judge; "3-A through 3-Z" to
+          Superior Court Judges; and "4-A through 4-Z" to Mayors. The regex is that
+          table's shape exactly: a single digit, optionally followed by a hyphen
+          and one letter.
+      progression: >-
+        § 7122: within an office held by more than one person, plates issue "in
+        sequence based upon their LAST NAMES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER" — except
+        Superior Court Judges, who are sequenced BY SENIORITY. A serial that
+        encodes alphabetical position is unusual enough to be worth recording; one
+        that switches to seniority for a single office is a genuine curiosity.
+    design:
+      plate: { note: "size delegated under § 7120(c)" }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+    binding: office
+    eligibility: >-
+      § 7122: these are issued to the named officials FOR USE ON THEIR
+      PRIVATELY-OWNED VEHICLES, on assumption of office, and must be SURRENDERED to
+      the Department on removal from office for any cause. The section expressly
+      preserves the ordinary registration and licensing requirements for those
+      vehicles, and expressly does not prevent separate issuance of government-of-
+      Guam plates to official government-owned vehicles.
+    region_encoding: >-
+      OFFICE ENCODING, NOT GEOGRAPHIC. The leading digit is the branch/office
+      class (1 executive, 2 legislature, 3 judiciary, 4 mayors) and the letter is
+      the ordinal within it. This is a genuine, statutory, fully-enumerated decode
+      and it is the single most decode-rich fact found in the territories group.
+    sources:
+      - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf  # § 7122 (GC § 23319.2, enacted P.L. 11-077:1, July 28, 1971): the complete office-to-plate-number table, the alphabetical and seniority sequencing rules, the assumption-of-office issuance and surrender-on-removal duties, and the savings clauses. Compiler notes record that 'Governor'/'Lieutenant Governor' now read as I Maga'haga/Maga'lahi and I Sigundo Maga'haga/Maga'lahi per 5 GCA § 1510, and that 'Commissioners' reads as 'Mayors' per P.L. 20-033:1 (Sept. 6, 1989)"
+    notes: >-
+      GUAM'S RESERVED OFFICIAL PLATE NUMBERS. This is the entry that justifies
+      reading territory statutes instead of territory brochures: a complete,
+      citable, government-issued decode table for a plate serial, sitting in a
+      1971 statute, that no competing dataset carries. TWO CAVEATS ON ITS FACE.
+      First, the CLASS is recorded as `government` because that is the nearest
+      value in _meta/classes.yml, but the binding is to an OFFICE and the vehicle
+      is PRIVATELY OWNED — neither the class definition nor `binding: business`
+      fits, and `binding: office` is used here as a vocabulary-growth candidate.
+      Second, the range notation "2-C through 2-Z" is a STATUTORY RANGE, not an
+      observed one; whether Guam has ever issued 2-Q or 3-X is unknown and is not
+      claimed.
+
+  - id: us-gu-government-fleet
+    class: government
+    categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
+    period: { start: 1952 }
+    period_evidence: statutory-enactment-date
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      charset: { notes: "no grammar stated; § 7136(a) requires only 'a distinguishing symbol, word or letter' in place of the year number" }
+      pattern_note: "illustrative only — see us-gu-dealer's note; the same recall-only discipline applies"
+    design:
+      plate: { note: "size delegated under § 7120(c)" }
+      year_number: "§ 7136(a): a plate for a publicly-owned vehicle NEED NOT display the year number, 'but shall display a distinguishing symbol, word or letter'"
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+    validity: >-
+      PERMANENT. § 7136(b): the registration and registration card for a
+      government vehicle "shall not be renewed annually but shall remain valid
+      until the certificate of ownership for such vehicle is suspended, revoked or
+      canceled by the Department of Revenue and Taxation for cause or upon transfer
+      of any interest in such certificate of ownership." On a change of ownership
+      the vehicle is re-registered as a private vehicle and the government plates
+      are surrendered. § 7136(c) reserves DRT's power to suspend, cancel, revoke or
+      renew a permanent registration when reissue is advisable.
+    fee: "§ 7169 addresses fees for government cars separately from the general schedule"
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf  # § 7136 (GC § 23330, enacted P.L. 1-088, Nov. 29, 1952): the year-number exemption and the mandatory distinguishing symbol/word/letter, permanent non-renewing registration, surrender and re-registration on transfer, and DRT's reissue power"
+    notes: >-
+      GOVERNMENT FLEET PLATES. Kept separate from us-gu-government-officials
+      because the two are different animals under the same class value: § 7122
+      plates go on PRIVATE cars belonging to named office-holders and carry
+      enumerated numbers, while § 7136 plates go on PUBLICLY OWNED vehicles, carry
+      an unspecified distinguishing mark, and never expire. § 7122 itself draws
+      the line, saying nothing in it prevents "the issuance of special government
+      of Guam plates to the official government-owned vehicles assigned to any
+      public officer". THE PERMANENT-REGISTRATION FACT is the one to carry into the
+      parse layer: a Guam government plate has no year and no expiry, so
+      era-inference from a validation device silently fails on this series.
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # PERSONALISED — and Guam is one of the few jurisdictions anywhere whose
+  # vanity-plate LENGTH CAP is in primary law.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-gu-personalized
+    class: personalized
+    categories: [car, truck, trailer]
+    period: { start: 1975 }
+    period_evidence: statutory-enactment-date
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLLLLLL"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9]{1,7}\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          § 7123(c), verbatim: a personalised plate "shall consist of numbers or
+          letters, or any combination thereof NOT EXCEEDING SEVEN (7) POSITIONS
+          provided that there are no conflicts with existing passenger, commercial,
+          trailer, motorcycle or special license plates series or with the
+          provisions of §§ 7121 and 7122." Seven positions is a hard statutory cap,
+          and the no-conflict proviso is itself a sourced fact about the shape of
+          Guam's whole serial space.
+      progression: "§ 7123(f): 'There shall be no duplication of registration numbers' — the applicant nominates the combination on a DRT form by a DRT-set date"
+    design:
+      plate: { note: "§ 7123(c): 'A personalized license plates shall be the same COLOR AND DESIGN as regular passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle or trailer license plates' — so the design question reduces exactly to the standard series' design question, and inherits its gaps" }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+    fee: >-
+      § 7123(g): the cost of the plate plus an additional fifty dollars ($50.00)
+      on top of the regular registration fee; twenty dollars ($20.00) additional on
+      renewal. § 7123(i): a twenty-five dollar ($25.00) transfer fee. § 7123(h):
+      ALL of this revenue goes to the DRIVERS EDUCATION FUND, and § 7123(a) states
+      that funding driver education IS the section's purpose.
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf  # § 7123 (GC § 23319.3, enacted P.L. 13-100:1, Nov. 23, 1975; (c) amended P.L. 18-023:3, Dec. 15, 1985; (g) and (i) amended P.L. 29-002, May 18, 2007): the seven-position cap, the numbers-or-letters-or-both alphabet, the no-conflict proviso against the passenger/commercial/trailer/motorcycle/special series and against §§ 7121-7122, the same-colour-and-design rule, the no-duplication rule, the $50/$20/$25 fees and the Drivers Education Fund destination"
+    notes: >-
+      GUAM PERSONALISED PLATES. Modelled as its own series because the SERIAL
+      SOURCE differs — owner-nominated rather than department-assigned. THE
+      NO-CONFLICT PROVISO IS THE SLEEPER FACT: § 7123(c) forbids a personalised
+      combination that collides with the passenger, commercial, trailer,
+      motorcycle or special series, or with the §§ 7121-7122 call-sign and official
+      series. That single sentence is primary-source evidence that Guam runs at
+      least six distinct serial namespaces, which is far more than the two this
+      file can currently spec — and it is the best available map of what is still
+      missing.
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # SPECIALTY — INDEX ONLY, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Guam's specialty catalogue is
+  # statutory, and one member of it has a serial rule strange enough to spec.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-gu-amateur-radio
+    class: specialty
+    categories: [car, van, truck]
+    period: { start: 1964 }
+    period_evidence: statutory-enactment-date
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LL9LL"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          THE SERIAL IS NOT GUAM'S. § 7121(a): the holder of an unexpired amateur
+          or citizens radio station licence (other than a novice licence) may apply
+          for a plate "on which, IN LIEU OF THE NUMBER OTHERWISE PRESCRIBED, shall
+          be inscribed the OFFICIAL AMATEUR OR CITIZENS RADIO STATION CALL LETTERS
+          of the applicant AS ASSIGNED BY THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION."
+          So the grammar belongs to the FCC, not to DRT — and the FCC call-sign
+          rules were NOT pinned in this pass. `matching: recall-only` is therefore
+          mandatory: the regex is a shape catch-all and a match says nothing.
+      pattern_note: >-
+        The pattern shows the general shape of a US amateur call sign (prefix
+        letters, a numeral, suffix letters) purely as an illustration. It is NOT a
+        sourced grammar and must not be treated as one until 47 CFR is pinned.
+    design:
+      plate: { note: "size delegated under § 7120(c); § 7121(c) issues it IN LIEU OF the regular plate, so its physical form follows the standard series" }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+    fee: "§ 7121(b): in addition to the regular registration fee, not exceeding ten dollars ($10.00), charged again whenever the vehicle or its ownership changes"
+    limit: "§ 7121(c): 'The Department shall not issue more than one (1) special plate for any licensed amateur or citizens radio station.'"
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf  # § 7121 (GC § 23319.1, enacted P.L. 7-075:1, Jan. 30, 1964, amended P.L. 8-105:2, Feb. 24, 1966): the FCC call-letter serial in lieu of the ordinary number, the novice-licence exclusion, the proof requirement, the $10 fee and the one-plate-per-station limit"
+    notes: >-
+      AMATEUR AND CITIZENS RADIO PLATES. Given its own series rather than folded
+      into the specialty index because the FORMAT differs categorically: this is
+      the only Guam plate whose serial is assigned by a FEDERAL agency and merely
+      transcribed by DRT. It is the cross-jurisdictional twin of Puerto Rico's
+      Art. 2.28 radio-amateur plate, which does exactly the same thing in almost
+      the same words — two territories, two statutes, one delegation to the FCC.
+      RECORDED GAP: 47 CFR's call-sign format rules were not fetched, so no strict
+      grammar is offered; pinning them would upgrade both this series and PR's from
+      recall-only to strict in one step.
+
+  - id: us-gu-specialty-index
+    class: specialty
+    categories: [car, van, truck, motorcycle]
+    period: { start: 1995 }
+    period_evidence: statutory-enactment-date
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
+      charset: { notes: "specialty plates carry ordinary serials on an alternative design; § 7123(c)'s no-conflict proviso confirms 'special license plates series' is its own namespace" }
+      pattern_note: "illustrative only — this is an INDEX entry, not a spec"
+    design:
+      plate: { note: "one design per statutory programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here" }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+    program_index:
+      count_statutory: 7
+      count_basis: >-
+        SEVEN PROGRAMMES ARE CREATED BY 16 GCA CH. 7 ITSELF. Like Puerto Rico and
+        unlike most US states, Guam's specialty catalogue is an EDICT rather than a
+        brochure, so the count is citable per programme.
+      statutory_programs:
+        - "§ 7120.1 — SPECIAL PLATES AND REMOVABLE WINDSHIELD PLACARDS for qualified persons with a disability, defined by five clinical criteria; uses the International Symbol of Accessibility as adopted by Rehabilitation International in 1969. Added P.L. 23-011:7 (Apr. 26, 1995); §(a)(4) amended P.L. 36-032:1 (June 11, 2021)"
+        - "§ 7120.2 — VETERAN PLATES, with a definition of 'veteran' that is Guam-specific: it expressly includes a Republic of Korea soldier who fought alongside US forces in Vietnam and acquired US citizenship, and members of the WWII Guam Combat Patrol, Wake Island Defenders, Guam Militia and Civilian Scouts. Added P.L. 24-066:2 (Sept. 30, 1997)"
+        - "§ 7120.3 — SPECIAL GOLD STAR PLATES for bereaved parents, widows and widowers, with a statutory design constraint: 'a gold star shall appear on one (1) side of the license plate'. Fee waived. Added P.L. 30-062:2 (Nov. 27, 2009); §(a) amended P.L. 32-003:1 (Mar. 6, 2013); §(b) amended P.L. 30-161:1 (July 16, 2010)"
+        - "§ 7120.4 — FIREFIGHTER PLATES, issued in lieu of regular plates, 'the same standard size and shape as a regular passenger vehicle license plate', type and style set jointly by the Director of DRT and the Chief of the Guam Fire Department; limited to two vehicles per firefighter; fees may not be subsidised. Added P.L. 33-099:1 (Dec. 1, 2015)"
+        - "§ 7120.5 — SPECIAL RECOGNITION VETERANS PLATE for recipients of the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross, Navy Cross, Air Force Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star with 'V' device, or the Purple Heart. Added P.L. 33-185:XII:23 (Sept. 10, 2016)"
+        - "§ 7121 — AMATEUR AND CITIZENS RADIO STATION plates (specced separately as us-gu-amateur-radio because its serial grammar is categorically different)"
+        - "§ 7122 — GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS' reserved numbers (specced separately as us-gu-government-officials because it carries a full decode table)"
+      official_list_url: "https://col.guamcourts.gov/guam-code-annotated/guam-code-annotated"
+      official_list_note: >-
+        THE STATUTE IS THE CATALOGUE. DRT publishes no specialty gallery that was
+        reachable in this pass — guamtax.com refused every connection — and
+        30 GAR Div. 2 ch. 6 files no rules. Guam therefore has no
+        agency-published specialty list to index; the index above IS the complete
+        list, which is an unusually strong position for a specialty index to be in.
+      churn_note: "no discontinuation duty analogous to Florida's § 320.08056(8)(a) appears in 16 GCA ch. 7 — Guam's programmes are added by public law and, so far as the compiled chapter shows, are never automatically retired"
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf  # §§ 7120.1-7120.5, 7121, 7122 — the seven statutory specialty programmes with their eligibility rules, design constraints, fee rules, per-programme public-law enactment dates and amendment histories"
+      - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/30GAR002-5_8.pdf  # 30 GAR Div. 2 ch. 6 'VEHICLE REGISTRATION — (No rules filed.)' — the measured negative behind the official_list_note: there is no administrative layer in which an unlisted Guam specialty programme could be hiding"
+      - "http://www.plateshack.com/guam/guam.html  # CORROBORATION ONLY: an independent Guam plate page confirming passenger issues at 1969, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2005, plus separate motorcycle and 'oddball' sections. Carries an explicit 'Copyright 1997-2006. Please ask permission before using any images' notice, which is respected: no image or text was copied and the page informs no asserted fact"
+    notes: >-
+      THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry standing for the whole programme, per
+      PRD-PLATES §2.5. THE HEADLINE IS THAT GUAM'S INDEX IS COMPLETE AND CITED,
+      which almost no US state's is: because the programmes are created by public
+      law and there is no administrative layer, the seven sections above are
+      demonstrably the whole set as of the compiled edition. `period: {start: 1995}`
+      is the enactment of the earliest surviving programme (§ 7120.1, P.L. 23-011,
+      Apr. 26, 1995) and each later programme carries its own date in the list.
+      RECORDED GAP: plateshack's Guam page shows a MOTORCYCLE section, and
+      § 7123(c) names a motorcycle series in its no-conflict proviso, so Guam
+      plainly serialises motorcycles separately — but no Guam instrument describing
+      that series was found, and it is therefore not minted. That is the largest
+      single gap in this file.