vehicles 0.6.1 → 0.8.0

data/data/plates/us-tn.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,471 @@
+# plates/us-tn.yml — Tennessee (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group southeast-b).
+#
+# THE FINDING THAT MAKES TENNESSEE WORTH MODELLING CAREFULLY: Tennessee's two
+# standard-issue options are not a colour variant of one another. The plain
+# standard plate runs ABC-1234 and the "In God We Trust" option runs 123-ABCD —
+# THREE LETTERS THEN FOUR NUMERALS versus THREE NUMERALS THEN FOUR LETTERS. The
+# arrangement itself tells the two apart, so a parse API can identify which
+# standard option a Tennessee plate is from the string alone, with no image and
+# no lookup. Under PRD-PLATES §2.3 that is two SERIES, not one series with a
+# flag, and this file models it that way. Contrast Kentucky in this same group,
+# which offers the identical pair of options and draws BOTH from one serial pool,
+# so a Kentucky serial cannot distinguish them at all. Same policy, opposite
+# implementation, opposite consequence for the parse layer — that contrast is the
+# single most useful thing in this group's output.
+#
+# SOURCING RULE APPLIED HERE, AND ITS LIMIT: PRD-PLATES §4 prefers the statute.
+# Tennessee Code Annotated is published exclusively through a LexisNexis portal
+# that serves a JavaScript shell, and Justia/FindLaw/Casetext all refuse a plain
+# fetch. But Tennessee publishes two things that are better than a brochure and
+# were both obtained: the SESSION LAWS in full (publications.tnsosfiles.com serves
+# public chapters as PDFs), and a Department of Revenue standard-plate page plus a
+# Governor's-office release that both DESCRIBE the operative statute in terms. So
+# the legend rule, the redesign cadence and the current-design date below are all
+# state-government primary, and the code sections themselves are a named gap.
+jurisdiction: us-tn
+authority:
+  name: Tennessee Department of Revenue, Vehicle Services Division
+  url: "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates.html"
+binding: vehicle
+statute_edition: >-
+  TENNESSEE CODE ANNOTATED NOT DIRECTLY OBTAINED — published through LexisNexis,
+  which returns a JavaScript shell; every mirror attempted returned 403/410. What
+  WAS obtained is better than a paraphrase and worse than the code: Public Chapter
+  No. 250 of the 113th General Assembly (Senate Bill 142, substituted for House
+  Bill 137), fetched in full from the Secretary of State's own acts server, which
+  amends Title 55, Chapter 4; plus two state-government pages that state the
+  contents of the governing statute in terms. Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 1 —
+  the plate-design sections proper — is a recorded gap.
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+artwork_risk:
+  posture: unresearched
+  basis: >-
+    Tennessee appears in the pinned dossier only as a NEGATIVE: the dossier's
+    per-state table lists Florida, California, North Carolina, New Jersey,
+    Massachusetts and Georgia as favourable and New York, Arizona, Washington and
+    Pennsylvania as adverse, and records Texas and Delaware as "not established".
+    Tennessee is in neither list and no Commons {{PD-TNGov}} tag was located, so it
+    falls to the dossier's default: 17 U.S.C. §105 does not reach the states,
+    therefore a state plate design is copyrighted unless that state says otherwise.
+    No Tennessee statement either way was found. Recorded as unresearched, which is
+    the honest label, not as safe.
+  design_provenance_complication: >-
+    A Tennessee-specific wrinkle worth flagging before any clearance is attempted:
+    the current base was selected by PUBLIC VOTE. The Governor's office states that
+    "More than 300,000 Tennessee residents cast a vote, with 42% voting for the
+    winning design." A design chosen by referendum among candidate designs implies
+    candidate designers, and whatever the State's posture toward its own works, the
+    chain of title on a competition-selected design is a question in its own right.
+    Unresearched.
+  emblem_rule: >-
+    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies. Three devices are in scope on the
+    current base and all render as placeholders: the OUTLINED STATE MAP containing
+    the word TENNESSEE at the top, the STATE FLAG EMBLEM that occupies the serial
+    gap, and — on the In God We Trust option — what a locator calls "the state's
+    unofficial logo emblem". The flag device is the touchiest: a state flag is
+    protected by flag-misuse statutes independent of copyright, and that regime is
+    unresearched for Tennessee.
+  sources:
+    - "https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2021/10/5/gov--lee-unveils-new-license-plate-design-picked-by-tennesseans.html  # Office of the Governor: the design was chosen by statewide public vote, 300,000+ votes cast, 42% for the winner"
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY, via the pinned dossier: the default-copyrighted rule and the exception list, which does not include Tennessee"
+
+us_standards:
+  no_federal_mandate: true
+  chain: "SAE J686 -> AAMVA License Plate Standard Edition 3 (September 2025) -> voluntary state adoption; recommendations in the declarative present, no enforcement power."
+  aamva_edition_3:
+    dimensions_delegated: "AAMVA §3.1 sends dimensions and bolt holes to SAE J686, whose text is PAYWALLED and was NOT obtained. No J686 dimension is quoted anywhere in this dataset."
+    jurisdiction_name_layout: "AAMVA §2.1: the jurisdiction name 'appears in the top center location between the bolt holes', jurisdiction characters 0.75-1.0 in. Tennessee complies in an unusual way — TENNESSEE sits at the top centre but INSIDE an outlined state map rather than as free text."
+    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."
+    stacked_characters: "AAMVA: stacked characters are part of the official plate number, at most two stacked."
+    replacement_cycle: >-
+      AAMVA §1.1 recommends a rolling or full replacement cycle not to exceed 7 to
+      10 years. TENNESSEE'S IS EIGHT AND IT IS BUDGET-CONDITIONAL — see
+      redesign_cycle below. Eight sits inside AAMVA's range; the conditionality does
+      not, and is the more interesting half.
+    source: "https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf"
+  folklore_caution: >-
+    The "1956 agreement" appears in the Tennessee article's lead as it does in every
+    state article read for this group, now carrying one citation — Garrish,
+    Christopher, "Reconsidering the Standard Plate Size", *Plates* (Automobile
+    License Plate Collectors Association), vol. 62 no. 5, October 2016. Not
+    obtainable; title implies revision rather than confirmation. Still recorded as
+    commonly repeated and unsourced. Tennessee's 12x6 in figure in this file is
+    locator-grade and labelled as such.
+  aamva_specialty_guidance: "AAMVA also publishes 'Regulation of Specific-Use License Plates Best Practices' (March 2023), which is the relevant standard for a state running 200+ specialty programs. URL pinned in the dossier; not fetched in this pass."
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Redesign cadence — Tennessee legislates one, and legislates a condition on it.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+redesign_cycle:
+  years: 8
+  conditional: true
+  statement: >-
+    Office of the Governor, verbatim: "Per Tennessee statute, the plate is
+    redesigned every eight years if funds are approved in the General Assembly's
+    annual budget."
+  note: >-
+    THIS IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF CYCLE FROM EVERY OTHER ONE IN THE DATASET. Florida
+    legislated a ten-year REPLACEMENT cycle — how long a plate stays on a car.
+    Mississippi legislated a five-year TAG cycle. Tennessee legislates a
+    REDESIGN cycle — how often the state draws a new plate — and then makes it
+    contingent on an annual appropriation. So the Tennessee period boundary is
+    predictable in principle and defeasible in fact, and a dataset that hard-codes
+    "next base 2030" on the strength of it would be asserting a budget outcome. The
+    cadence is recorded; no future boundary is projected from it.
+  statute_text_status: "NOT OBTAINED. The Governor's office describes the statute; the section itself is behind LexisNexis. A verifier with TCA access should pin the section number and the exact wording."
+  source: "https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2021/10/5/gov--lee-unveils-new-license-plate-design-picked-by-tennesseans.html"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Legend rules — statutory, and stated by the Governor's office in terms.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+legend_rules:
+  statutory_elements_2021: >-
+    Office of the Governor, October 2021, verbatim: "Statute also requires the
+    display of 'Tennessee,' 'Volunteer State' and 'TNvacation.com' on the plate, as
+    well as county name and expiration year decal locations. Statute provides that
+    Tennesseans may select an 'In God We Trust' plate option."
+  amended_2023: >-
+    Public Chapter 250 (2023) removed the tourism URL. The Department of Revenue, in
+    its own words: "In the 2023 legislative session, the General Assembly passed
+    legislation that makes minor changes to the standard license plate. The changes
+    remove the words www.tnvacation.com from both the standard and In God We Trust
+    license plates. For the In God We Trust plate option, the words 'In God We
+    Trust' will be located where www.tnvacation.com currently appears."
+  legislated_url_note: >-
+    WORTH PAUSING ON: Tennessee is the only jurisdiction in this dataset whose
+    LEGISLATURE put a MARKETING URL on the plate by statute, and then took it off by
+    statute two years later. It is a clean demonstration of why plate legends belong
+    in the period-disciplined layer rather than in a static design record — the
+    legend changed without the base changing, and the two must be separable.
+  clerk_default_rule: >-
+    A rule with real dataset consequences, from the Department of Revenue: "the
+    clerks are required to ask each customer if they prefer the In God We Trust plate
+    or the plate without the In God We Trust language. If the customer does not
+    indicate a preference, the customer should be issued the In God We Trust plate."
+    The DEFAULT option is In God We Trust. Any consumer estimating the relative
+    population of the two Tennessee standard series must know that the split is not
+    a free choice between equals.
+  sources:
+    - "https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2021/10/5/gov--lee-unveils-new-license-plate-design-picked-by-tennesseans.html  # the statutory legend list as it stood in 2021, the eight-year conditional redesign cycle, and the January 3, 2022 availability date"
+    - "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/additional-license-plate-information/standard-plate-faq.html  # TN Dept of Revenue Standard Plate FAQ: the Public Chapter 250 changes, the clerk-must-ask rule and the In God We Trust default, and the January 1, 2024 availability date"
+    - "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0250.pdf  # Public Chapter No. 250, 113th General Assembly (SB 142 / HB 137), 'AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 55, Chapter 4, relative to license plates' — fetched in full from the Secretary of State's acts server"
+
+display_rules:
+  default_reported: "ONE plate, rear only, since 1977"
+  evidence: "LOCATOR-GRADE. No Tennessee display statute was obtained. Recorded as an open claim."
+  sources:
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Tennessee  # LOCATOR ONLY: rear plates only since 1977"
+
+series:
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # CURRENT STANDARD — the plain option. Three letters, four numerals.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-tn-standard-2024
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck]
+    period: { start: 2024 }
+    period_evidence: agency-stated-date
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 9999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3} ?\d{4}\z'
+      charset:
+        notes: >-
+          No alphabet restriction is sourced FOR THIS SERIES. Tennessee has
+          demonstrably excluded characters in the past — a locator records that
+          vowels were not used in the older 123-ABC and ABC-123 formats, and that
+          I, O and Q were not used in the A12-34B, 1A2-3B4 and 12A-B34 formats — and
+          the reported serial range for the current base begins at BBB-0001 rather
+          than AAA-0001, which is consistent with a vowel exclusion continuing. That
+          is a suggestive pattern, not a source, so NO `regex_strict` is offered and
+          the inference is recorded here instead of encoded there.
+      separator_note: >-
+        THE SEPARATOR IS THE STATE FLAG EMBLEM. On the 2022-and-later base the gap
+        between the letter and numeral groups is occupied by a screened flag device,
+        not by a printed glyph. Per plates/_meta/separators.yml §4 an emblem between
+        serial groups is a design element carried in `design.emblem`, never a serial
+        character and never strippable-as-punctuation. The regex spells the position
+        as an optional SPACE, the honest printed form of a gap. Collector sources
+        write it as a hyphen (ABC-1234) and a separator-forgiving consumer will
+        canonicalise both to ABC1234 by construction, which is the whole point of
+        the §2.6 contract. Mississippi's magnolia does exactly the same job in the
+        same group.
+      pattern_note: >-
+        `matching: strict`: the regex lies inside what Tennessee issues and a match
+        is a real well-formedness claim. No `regex_statutory` twin, because no
+        Tennessee instrument stating an outer character cap was obtained — Florida's
+        seven-character statutory ceiling has no Tennessee counterpart in evidence.
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, hex_basis_note: "locator-grade; no Tennessee instrument stating it was obtained" }
+      material: "aluminium (locator)"
+      background: { color: "#00205B", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#FFFFFF"
+      colour_note: >-
+        Both hexes are `observed` approximations of the described "screened white
+        serial on reflective blue plate" and are NOT sourced to any Tennessee
+        instrument. No colour specification was located. Treat as unverified.
+      legend_top: "TENNESSEE"
+      legend_top_note: "screened in white INSIDE an outlined state map at the top centre — an unusual satisfaction of AAMVA §2.1's top-centre jurisdiction-name rule"
+      legend_corner: "THE VOLUNTEER STATE (top left, to the left of the state map)"
+      legend_bottom: "<county name>, on a WHITE STICKER"
+      county_sticker_note: >-
+        Tennessee puts the county on a REMOVABLE STICKER, not in the metal. So the
+        county legend is not a property of the plate at all — it is a property of the
+        current registration, and it can change without the plate changing. Kentucky
+        does the same. Mississippi, in this same group, embosses the county into the
+        plate and therefore cannot. Three neighbouring states, three different
+        answers to where the county lives, and only the Mississippi answer binds the
+        county to the metal.
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "state flag device occupying the serial gap; outlined state map containing the wordmark at top — see format.separator_note and artwork_risk.emblem_rule" }
+      rear_differs: false
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/additional-license-plate-information/standard-plate-faq.html  # TN Dept of Revenue: 'The new design will be available beginning January 1, 2024, OR upon depletion of the county's inventory of the current blue plate'; the Public Chapter 250 changes; the new design is for new registrations only, not renewals; the eligibility rules for a replacement"
+      - "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0250.pdf  # Public Chapter No. 250 (2023), the amending instrument itself"
+      - "https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2021/10/5/gov--lee-unveils-new-license-plate-design-picked-by-tennesseans.html  # the blue base's own origin, the statutory legend list, and the eight-year conditional redesign cycle"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Tennessee  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the ABC-1234 arrangement, the flag-emblem separator, blue/white colours, the outlined state map, the white county sticker, the reported BRC-8001 to BVP-2252 range as of December 2025, and a November 16, 2023 start date that DISAGREES with the Department's own January 1, 2024 — see notes"
+    notes: >-
+      TENNESSEE STANDARD ISSUE, PLAIN OPTION. A RECORDED DISAGREEMENT ON THE START
+      DATE, NOT AN AVERAGE OF ONE (PRD-PLATES §5.3): the Department of Revenue says
+      the redesigned plate becomes available "beginning January 1, 2024, OR upon
+      depletion of the county's inventory of the current blue plate", while a locator
+      dates the change to November 16, 2023. Both dates can be literally true —
+      counties with exhausted stock could begin earlier than the statewide date — and
+      the two are not reconciled here. `start: 2024` is taken because it is the
+      administering department's own statement; the November 2023 claim is recorded
+      in the source line and nowhere else.
+      THE ROLLOUT IS UNUSUALLY SLOW BY DESIGN, and this matters for anyone reasoning
+      about how many 2024-design plates exist. The Department is explicit that the new
+      plate is issued for NEW REGISTRATIONS ONLY and "will not be issued upon renewal",
+      with replacement otherwise limited to switching between the two legend options or
+      to a lost, stolen, destroyed, mutilated or illegible plate. So the 2022 and 2024
+      designs will coexist on Tennessee roads for many years — parallel issuance in the
+      §2.2 sense, made explicit by statute rather than by old stock running out.
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # CURRENT STANDARD — the In God We Trust option. THE ARRANGEMENT IS REVERSED.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-tn-standard-igwt-2024
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck]
+    period: { start: 2024 }
+    period_evidence: agency-stated-date
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "999 LLLL"
+      regex: '\A\d{3} ?[A-Z]{4}\z'
+      charset: { notes: "no sourced alphabet restriction; see us-tn-standard-2024 for the unencoded vowel-exclusion inference, which applies here too — the reported range begins 001-BMDN" }
+      pattern_note: >-
+        THREE NUMERALS THEN FOUR LETTERS, the mirror image of the plain option's
+        three letters then four numerals. This is the whole reason the two options
+        are separate series: the serial ALONE identifies which Tennessee standard
+        option a plate is, with no image, no lookup and no ambiguity. Very few
+        jurisdictions hand a parse API a discriminator this clean, and no competing
+        dataset carries it.
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { color: "#00205B", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#FFFFFF"
+      legend_top: "TENNESSEE"
+      legend_corner: "THE VOLUNTEER STATE"
+      legend_extra: "IN GOD WE TRUST, screened between the serial and the county sticker — the position vacated by www.tnvacation.com when Public Chapter 250 removed it"
+      legend_bottom: "<county name>, on a white sticker"
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+      rear_differs: false
+    issuance_default: >-
+      THE DEFAULT OPTION. Per the Department of Revenue, clerks must ask each customer
+      which they prefer, and "If the customer does not indicate a preference, the
+      customer should be issued the In God We Trust plate." This series is what a
+      Tennessean gets by not choosing.
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/additional-license-plate-information/standard-plate-faq.html  # TN Dept of Revenue: the In God We Trust option, the relocation of the legend into the vacated tnvacation.com position, the clerk-must-ask rule and the default, and the January 1, 2024 availability date"
+      - "https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2021/10/5/gov--lee-unveils-new-license-plate-design-picked-by-tennesseans.html  # 'Statute provides that Tennesseans may select an In God We Trust plate option' — the option is legislated, not administrative"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Tennessee  # LOCATOR ONLY: the 123-ABCD arrangement and the reported 001-BMDN onward range as of July 2026"
+    notes: >-
+      THE IN GOD WE TRUST STANDARD OPTION, 2024 design. Its own series on two of the
+      three §2.3 tests at once — FORMAT differs (reversed arrangement) and DESIGN
+      differs (the added legend) — which is as unambiguous as that test ever gets.
+      THE CROSS-STATE POINT, and the reason this entry is the hinge of the group:
+      Kentucky offers the same statutory In God We Trust option on the same base as
+      its plain plate, and draws the serials for both from ONE allocation. So in
+      Tennessee the serial identifies the option and in Kentucky it cannot, although
+      the policies are twins. A dataset that modelled "In God We Trust" as a flag
+      rather than as a series would have erased a real, usable discriminator in one
+      state to accommodate its absence in the other.
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # ONE SERIES BACK — the 2022 blue base with the legislated tourism URL.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-tn-standard-2022
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck]
+    period: { start: 2022, end: 2024 }
+    period_evidence: agency-stated-date
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "LLL 9999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z]{3} ?\d{4}\z'
+      charset: { notes: "same arrangement as its successor; the 2023 amendment changed the LEGEND, not the serial. Reported range BBB-0001 to BRC-2189, with BRC-2190 to BRC-8000 never issued" }
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { color: "#00205B", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#FFFFFF"
+      legend_top: "TENNESSEE"
+      legend_corner: "THE VOLUNTEER STATE"
+      legend_extra: "TNVACATION.COM, screened in white between the serial and the county sticker — statutorily required at the time and statutorily removed in 2023"
+      legend_bottom: "<county name>, on a white sticker"
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2021/10/5/gov--lee-unveils-new-license-plate-design-picked-by-tennesseans.html  # Office of the Governor: 'New plates will be available online and in-person beginning January 3, 2022'; up to 100,000 plates per week produced for initial inventory; the design was chosen by public vote; 'This new license plate design will replace the current plate that launched in 2006 with modifications in 2011, 2016 and 2017'"
+      - "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/additional-license-plate-information/standard-plate-faq.html  # the Department's own account of what the 2023 amendment changed, which is what closes this series"
+      - "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0250.pdf  # Public Chapter No. 250 (2023), the instrument that ended it"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Tennessee  # LOCATOR ONLY: the BBB-0001 to BRC-2189 range and the unissued BRC-2190 to BRC-8000 gap"
+    notes: >-
+      THE 2022 BLUE BASE, plain option — the predecessor L2 asks for, and the better
+      documented of the two Tennessee generations. Its start is genuinely
+      well-sourced: the Governor's office named January 3, 2022 in a dated release
+      four months ahead of it, and stated the production rate. Its END is a
+      legend amendment rather than a redesign, which is why the base looks identical
+      across the boundary and why the serial arrangement is unchanged.
+      THE UNISSUED BLOCK IS THE INTERESTING DETAIL: a locator records that serials
+      BRC-2190 through BRC-8000 were never issued, the 2024 design resuming at
+      BRC-8001. A skipped block at a design boundary is exactly the kind of fact that
+      makes a naive range-based era inference wrong, and it is recorded for that
+      reason even though it is locator-grade.
+
+  - id: us-tn-standard-igwt-2022
+    class: standard
+    categories: [car, van, truck]
+    period: { start: 2022, end: 2024 }
+    period_evidence: agency-stated-date
+    matching: strict
+    format:
+      pattern: "999 LLLL"
+      regex: '\A\d{3} ?[A-Z]{4}\z'
+      charset: { notes: "reported range 001-BBBB to 999-BMDM" }
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { color: "#00205B", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
+      foreground: "#FFFFFF"
+      legend_extra: "IN GOD WE TRUST curved around a centre emblem, PLUS TNVACATION.COM between serial and county sticker — this base carried both, which is why the 2023 amendment had somewhere to move the legend to"
+      legend_bottom: "<county name>, on a white sticker"
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/additional-license-plate-information/standard-plate-faq.html  # the Department's description of what changed for the In God We Trust option in 2023: the legend moved into the position tnvacation.com had occupied"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Tennessee  # LOCATOR ONLY: the 123-ABCD arrangement on this base and the 001-BBBB to 999-BMDM range"
+    notes: >-
+      THE 2022 IN GOD WE TRUST OPTION. Recorded as its own series for the same
+      reasons as its 2024 successor — reversed arrangement plus distinct legend — and
+      recorded at all because the L2 "one series back" requirement applies to each
+      standard option separately when the options are separate series. It also
+      documents the mechanism of the 2023 change concretely: this base carried BOTH
+      the religious legend and the tourism URL, so removing the URL left a hole the
+      legend then moved into, which is why the two 2024 options differ from their
+      2022 twins in legend POSITION as well as in content.
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-tn-specialty-index
+    class: specialty
+    categories: [car, van, truck, motorcycle]
+    period: { start: 2024 }
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "999999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9]{1,7}\z'
+      charset: { notes: "no Tennessee character cap was obtained; the seven-character bound is a regional convention and is NOT sourced, which is why this series is recall-only" }
+      pattern_note: "`matching: recall-only` (§2.7): one entry stands for 200+ programs whose individual arrangements are out of scope at this gate. A match is a shape hit. No `regex_strict`, per §2.7."
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+      note: "one design per authorised program; individual designs are L4 scope"
+    program_index:
+      count_reported: "over 200"
+      count_source_note: >-
+        The figure comes from tnspecialtyplates.org, run by the TENNESSEE ARTS
+        COMMISSION — a state agency, not a hobbyist. It is treated as agency-adjacent
+        rather than as a locator, but the page itself was not fetched in this pass
+        (the count reached us through the Wikipedia citation), so it is recorded as
+        REPORTED and the URL is pinned for the verifier to close.
+      revenue_earmark_structure: >-
+        THE MOST STRUCTURALLY UNUSUAL SPECIALTY PROGRAM IN THIS GROUP, and it is in
+        statute. Public Chapter 250 (2023) rewrote Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 3 and
+        sets the split verbatim: after the department's costs, "Fifty percent (50%) of
+        the funds must be allocated to the nonprofit organization or state agency or
+        fund earmarked to receive the funds"; "Forty percent (40%) of the funds must
+        be allocated to the Tennessee arts commission"; and "Ten percent (10%) of the
+        funds must be allocated to the state highway fund." Tennessee funds its ARTS
+        COMMISSION from licence plates, at forty cents on the dollar, which is why the
+        arts commission — not the revenue department — runs the public specialty
+        catalogue.
+      arts_grant_geography: >-
+        The same chapter constrains where the money lands: of the arts commission's
+        share, "One-third (1/3) of the funds must be distributed to qualifying arts
+        organizations or events in urban counties" and "Two-thirds (2/3) ... in rural
+        counties", with up to half of the commission's allocation spendable on other
+        grants and activities first.
+      official_department_url: "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/available-license-plates.html"
+      official_arts_commission_url: "https://tnspecialtyplates.org/purchase-a-specialty-plate/"
+      new_plate_process_url: "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/additional-license-plate-information/how-to-introduce-a-new-specialty-plate.html"
+      pipeline_url: "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/additional-license-plate-information/proposed-specialty-plates-plates-under-construction.html"
+      pipeline_note: >-
+        Tennessee publishes a "Proposed Specialty Plates or Plates Under Construction"
+        page — a FORWARD-LOOKING index of plates not yet issued. Alabama's dated memo
+        series is the closest equivalent found in this group. Both are worth a
+        scheduled capture: they are the only public evidence of specialty churn before
+        it happens, and neither is archived by its publisher.
+      surrender_url: "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/additional-license-plate-information/surrendering-a-plate.html"
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc0250.pdf  # Public Chapter No. 250, 113th General Assembly: the 50/40/10 revenue split for new specialty earmarked plates, the one-third urban / two-thirds rural grant constraint, and the legislative-intent limits on who may receive earmarked funds"
+      - "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/available-license-plates.html  # the Department's own specialty catalogue (a JavaScript gallery; no list extractable without a rendering browser)"
+      - "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates/additional-license-plate-information.html  # the Department's index of how to introduce a plate, plates under construction, and surrender"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Tennessee  # LOCATOR ONLY: 'Tennessee offers over 200 optional license plates', attributed to the Tennessee Arts Commission's specialty-plate site"
+    notes: >-
+      THE TENNESSEE SPECIALTY INDEX — one entry standing for the program, per §2.5. The
+      count is the weakest thing in it and the STATUTE is the strongest: Public Chapter
+      250 gives the actual revenue mechanics verbatim from the session law, which is a
+      PD edict of government and the best possible source. The finding worth carrying
+      forward is institutional rather than numeric — in Tennessee the specialty program
+      is an arts-funding instrument that happens to be attached to vehicles, the arts
+      commission takes forty percent of it, and consequently the authoritative public
+      catalogue lives at the arts commission rather than at the revenue department.
+      Any future pass that goes looking for Tennessee specialty data at tn.gov/revenue
+      alone will find the thinner half of it.
+
+  # =========================================================================
+  # CLASSES NOT SPECCED — recorded so the gap is visible, not implied.
+  # =========================================================================
+  - id: us-tn-motorcycle
+    class: motorcycle
+    categories: [motorcycle]
+    period: { start: 2024 }
+    period_evidence: instrument-in-force-upper-bound
+    matching: recall-only
+    format:
+      pattern: "999999"
+      regex: '\A[A-Z0-9]+\z'
+      charset: { notes: "NO WIDTH CLAIM IS MADE. The quantifier is unbounded precisely because no Tennessee motorcycle serial grammar was obtained from any source, agency or locator, in this pass" }
+      pattern_note: "`matching: recall-only` (§2.7) and deliberately so: this regex is wider than anything Tennessee issues and a match means only 'this string is alphanumeric'. It exists to record that Tennessee serializes motorcycles separately, not to validate one. No `regex_strict`, per §2.7."
+    design:
+      plate: { w: 7, h: 4, unit: in, hex_basis_note: "regional convention, NOT sourced for Tennessee" }
+      background: { finish: retroreflective }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
+    region_encoding: none
+    sources:
+      - "https://www.tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/license-plates.html  # the Department's plate index, which establishes that Tennessee issues motorcycle plates as a distinct type"
+    notes: >-
+      TENNESSEE MOTORCYCLE PLATES — AN HONEST STUB, AND LABELLED AS ONE. It is included
+      rather than omitted because omission would read as "Tennessee does not separately
+      serialize motorcycles", which is false, whereas a recall-only entry with an
+      unbounded regex says exactly what is known: the class exists, the grammar was not
+      obtained. `matching: recall-only` is doing real work here — under §2.7 a consumer
+      reading this series knows without inferring that a match is not a validity claim.
+      This is the shape any state's under-researched class should take in this dataset
+      rather than a plausible-looking invented pattern.