vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/us-al.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-al.yml — Alabama (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group southeast-b).
+# plates/us-al.yml — Alabama (the plates spec gate L2, group southeast-b).
 #
 # WHAT MAKES ALABAMA WORTH READING FIRST IN THIS GROUP: it is the only state in
 # the group whose issuing agency publishes an actual DESIGN SPECIFICATION —
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # must carry. Almost none of that is inferable from a photograph, and no
 # competitor dataset has any of it.
 #
-# SOURCING RULE APPLIED HERE, AND ITS LIMIT: PRD-PLATES §4 prefers the statute
+# SOURCING RULE APPLIED HERE, AND ITS LIMIT: The plates spec §4 prefers the statute
 # over the brochure. Alabama's Code (Title 32, Chapter 6) is served only through
 # ALISON, a JavaScript application that returns no extractable text, and every
 # third-party mirror tried (Justia, FindLaw, Casetext, LawServer) answers 403 or
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 # supplying the county-code table. The statutory layer is a RECORDED GAP, named
 # in each series' notes rather than papered over.
 #
-# REGEX FORM (PRD-PLATES §2.6): every regex here is written in PRINTED form. The
+# REGEX FORM (the plates spec §2.6): every regex here is written in PRINTED form. The
 # optional space before the weight-class letter is spelled ` ?` because Alabama
 # prints the county code as a visually separate group on most plates and the
 # department's spec is silent on grouping; the cap, not the gap, is the claim.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   DEPARTMENTAL instrument, and the statutory chapter is a named gap.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     are facts, which are uncopyrightable at every level. Nothing in this file
     reproduces artwork.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies without exception here, and applies
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies without exception here, and applies
     harder than it does in Florida because the posture is unknown rather than
     favourable. The sunrise-beach graphic and the HEART OF DIXIE heart device
     render as `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`. State-seal misuse
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ series:
         (1A2345B, 1A23BCD, 1A23B4C, 10A123B, 10A12B3, 10A1B23, 10A1BC2, 10A2BCD,
         10ABCDE) because that list is not agency-sourced, and deliberately
         narrower than the seven-character cap in `regex_statutory` because the
-        county prefix IS agency-sourced. `matching: strict` under the PRD-PLATES
+        county prefix IS agency-sourced. `matching: strict` under the plates spec
         §2.7 test: this is a real well-formedness claim for an Alabama passenger
         plate, not a shape hit.
     design:
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/License-Plate-Design-Specifications-040821.pdf  # ALDOR 'License Plate Design Specifications', April 8 2021: 6x12 in passenger / 4x7 in motorcycle; the 5.44x11.44 in design rectangle and .28 in margin; 0.3125 in bolt holes; the 2.875x8.75 in graphics-free serial area; 2.75 in minimum character height; the ALABAMA header at 80 pt in URW BaskerTwid; the SEVEN-character standard cap and SIX-character distinctive cap; black characters at a 4:1 contrast ratio; the mandatory Heart of Dixie legend and its sponsor opt-out; 3M sheeting and the CMYK-only rule; the J594e/FMVSS 108 reflectivity delegation; September 2006 digital manufacture"
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/20090430071153/http://www.archives.alabama.gov/auto-tags.html  # Alabama Department of Archives and History, 'Alabama Automobile Tags Numerical by County': 'Alabama license plates first featured county codes in 1941. As of 2008, these codes continued to be used on passenger and some non-passenger types.' Full code-to-county table, 68 rows, including 1 Jefferson / 2 Mobile / 3 Montgomery and 70 Replacement. Live URL is dead; this is the Wayback capture"
       - "https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/license-plates/  # ALDOR's own plate catalogue: the Standard Passenger entry, its eligibility ('Private passenger automobiles, motorcycles, pickup trucks (not exceeding 12,000 pounds), motor homes of any weight'), and its code-section hooks 40-12-242 and 40-12-273"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Alabama  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the January 3, 2022 base start, the sunrise-beach/www.alabama.travel design description, the eight serial arrangements, the right-to-left 0-9-then-A-Y progression, and the I/O/Q exclusion. None is asserted as sourced here"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Alabama  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the January 3, 2022 base start, the sunrise-beach/www.alabama.travel design description, the eight serial arrangements, the right-to-left 0-9-then-A-Y progression, and the I/O/Q exclusion. None is asserted as sourced here"
     notes: >-
       ALABAMA STANDARD ISSUE, CURRENT BASE. THE ID IS DATED BUT THE DATE IS THE
       WEAKEST CLAIM IN THE ENTRY, and that inversion is deliberate rather than
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ series:
       August 1 2026), not standard bases. A verifier should look for the equivalent
       2021 memo; the id is dated on the assumption it will be found, and if the true
       start proves to be 2021 the id becomes a former-id alias under the
-      PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6 contract rather than being edited in place.
+      the quality spec I-5/I-6 contract rather than being edited in place.
       WHY ONE SERIES AND NOT EIGHT: Alabama's eight reported arrangements are all
       seven characters, all county-prefixed, and all on one physical base. They are
       the surface of a single right-to-left mixed-radix counter, not eight issuance
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Alabama  # LOCATOR ONLY: the 123456M arrangement and a January 2014 first issue for the design shown"
     notes: >-
       ALABAMA MOTORCYCLE PLATES. Its own series because the DESIGN differs — 4x7 in
-      against 12x6 in — which is exactly the PRD-PLATES §2.3 test, and because the
+      against 12x6 in — which is exactly the plates spec §2.3 test, and because the
       serial is not county-coded. Note the tension the dataset now records honestly
       in two places: ALDOR's catalogue puts motorcycles inside the Standard Passenger
       CATEGORY for fee and eligibility purposes, while the physical plate is a
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ series:
       is locator-grade.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # DISTINCTIVE (SPECIALTY) — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # DISTINCTIVE (SPECIALTY) — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # Count and official links only; no individual designs.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-al-distinctive-index
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ series:
       pattern_note: >-
         `matching: recall-only` and it is the right call rather than a hedge. This
         one entry stands for 398 catalogued plates whose individual arrangements are
-        not modelled at this gate (PRD-PLATES §2.5), so a match here says only
+        not modelled at this gate (the plates spec §2.5), so a match here says only
         "this string could be an Alabama distinctive plate serial" and is emphatically
         not a validity claim for any particular program. Per §2.7 a recall-only series
         carries no `regex_strict`, and none is given.
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/memo-new-license-plate/  # Protect Wildlife, beginning July 1, 2026"
     notes: >-
       THE ALABAMA DISTINCTIVE-PLATE INDEX — one entry standing for the whole program,
-      which is what PRD-PLATES §2.5 asks for at this gate. Two things worth carrying
+      which is what the plates spec §2.5 asks for at this gate. Two things worth carrying
       forward. First, Alabama is the best-instrumented specialty program found in this
       group: an exact published count, a fourteen-category taxonomy, a dated memo
       series for new issues, and a public pre-commitment portal. Second, the SIX

data/data/plates/us-ar.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-ar.yml — Arkansas (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group: southcentral).
+# plates/us-ar.yml — Arkansas (the plates spec gate L2, group: southcentral).
 #
 # READ THIS BEFORE TRUSTING ANY CLAIM IN THIS FILE. Arkansas is the WEAKEST-
 # SOURCED state in the southcentral group, and the reason is structural rather
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # unlike Texas (Chapter 504 read in full), Oklahoma (Title 47 read in full) and
 # Louisiana (the OMV policy manual read in full), NOT ONE WORD OF ARKANSAS
 # STATUTE IS QUOTED BELOW. Everything here rests on the DFA — the issuing
-# authority, which is a primary source in its own right under PRD-PLATES §4 —
+# authority, which is a primary source in its own right under the plates spec §4 —
 # or is explicitly marked locator-grade.
 #
 # THAT IS ITSELF A FINDING, and it belongs in the record: edicts of government
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 # in the same league as the "oldest designs still in use" list the US dossier
 # records (Delaware 1959, Colorado 1960, DC 1975, Minnesota 1978, North Carolina
 # 1982) — while the serial ARRANGEMENT changed underneath it in April 2021 when
-# the numeric-first space ran out. Under PRD-PLATES §2.3 ("own series iff format
+# the numeric-first space ran out. Under the plates spec §2.3 ("own series iff format
 # OR design OR period differs") that is two series on one design, and modelling
 # it any other way would let a parse API date an Arkansas plate fifteen years
 # wrong.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ statute_access_note: >-
   next pass does not repeat the same four dead ends.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: no-pd-rule-found-default-copyrighted
@@ -69,14 +69,14 @@ artwork_risk:
     industries. Where a private contractor draws or manufactures a state design,
     "is this a state work?" stops being the only question. Flagged, not resolved.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies to the DIAMOND graphic that has
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies to the DIAMOND graphic that has
     sat in the centre of the Arkansas base since 2006 (the diamond is an
     Arkansas state symbol — the state is the only US diamond producer — so the
     state-symbol regime, independent of copyright, is in play and is
     unresearched). Render `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`.
   sources:
     - "https://portal.arkansas.gov/v/acceptable-use/  # Arkansas.gov acceptable-use and legal notices: 'Copyright 2026. All Rights Reserved, Arkansas.gov'; the no-framing / no-passing-off rule; Tyler Technologies as DMCA designated agent"
-    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): §105 does not reach the states; Arkansas is not listed among the states with a favourable rule — used to evidence an ABSENCE"
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): §105 does not reach the states; Arkansas is not listed among the states with a favourable rule — used to evidence an ABSENCE"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The US standards chain — recorded once per US file (see us-fl.yml).
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ us_standards:
     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"
     replacement_cycle: "AAMVA §1.1 recommends a rolling or full replacement cycle 'not to exceed 7 to 10 years'. NO ARKANSAS REPLACEMENT CYCLE WAS FOUND, and on the evidence there is none: the current base has been issued continuously since March 2006, which is twenty years and twice AAMVA's outer bound. Recorded as an apparent absence, not as a sourced absence."
     source: "https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf"
-  folklore_caution: "The '1956 AMA standardization agreement' remains COMMONLY REPEATED, UNSOURCED (PRD-PLATES §4). The Arkansas locator repeats it with the same unobtained ALPCA magazine citation the Texas article uses, and adds a genuinely interesting detail that is worth chasing to a primary one day: that Arkansas's 1947, 1952 and 1955 issues were already 6 x 12 in but had NON-STANDARD MOUNTING HOLES, so the 1956 issue was the first to comply fully. If true, that is evidence the 1956 convention was about bolt spacing as much as about size — which is exactly what AAMVA §3.1 still delegates to J686 today."
+  folklore_caution: "The '1956 AMA standardization agreement' remains COMMONLY REPEATED, UNSOURCED (the plates spec §4). The Arkansas locator repeats it with the same unobtained ALPCA magazine citation the Texas article uses, and adds a genuinely interesting detail that is worth chasing to a primary one day: that Arkansas's 1947, 1952 and 1955 issues were already 6 x 12 in but had NON-STANDARD MOUNTING HOLES, so the 1956 issue was the first to comply fully. If true, that is evidence the 1956 convention was about bolt spacing as much as about size — which is exactly what AAMVA §3.1 still delegates to J686 today."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Display rules. Recorded thinly and honestly, because the Arkansas Code was
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ display_rules:
     it were. This is the single most-used fact in the file with the weakest
     support; a verifier should close it first.
   sources:
-    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Arkansas  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): 'Only rear plates have been required since 1944.' Not asserted as sourced; the underlying Arkansas Code section was not obtainable."
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Arkansas  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): 'Only rear plates have been required since 1944.' Not asserted as sourced; the underlying Arkansas Code section was not obtainable."
 
 series:
 
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ series:
           because the Code was unreachable and the DFA publishes no format page.
           The arrangement recorded here — three letters, two numerals, one
           letter — is locator-grade and is labelled as such throughout. It is
-          NOT given a `regex_strict`, because PRD-PLATES §2.7 reserves that tier
+          NOT given a `regex_strict`, because the plates spec §2.7 reserves that tier
           for the authority's own alphabet and Arkansas has published none.
         excluded_reported: ["Q"]
         excluded_basis: locator-unconfirmed
@@ -163,11 +163,11 @@ series:
     region_encoding_note: "no geographic encoding in the serial and none reported historically; Arkansas is the plainest of the four states in this group on that axis."
     sources:
       - "https://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/office/motor-vehicle/  # the issuing authority: DFA Office of Motor Vehicle, the body that issues and administers Arkansas plates"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Arkansas  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the ABC 12D arrangement from April 2021, the AAA 01A to BJA 95D range as of 2025-10-31, the 2006 base design and its diamond graphic, the Q/U/V exclusions and the 2015 restoration of U and V, 12 x 6 in aluminium, Waldale manufacture. Wikipedia's own citation for the range is licenseplates.cc, a collector site. Nothing here is asserted as sourced."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Arkansas  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the ABC 12D arrangement from April 2021, the AAA 01A to BJA 95D range as of 2025-10-31, the 2006 base design and its diamond graphic, the Q/U/V exclusions and the 2015 restoration of U and V, 12 x 6 in aluminium, Waldale manufacture. Wikipedia's own citation for the range is licenseplates.cc, a collector site. Nothing here is asserted as sourced."
     notes: >-
       ARKANSAS CURRENT ISSUE — SAME PLATE, NEW NUMBER SHAPE. The modelling
       decision to record is why this is its own series rather than a note on the
-      2006 entry: PRD-PLATES §2.3 makes a format difference sufficient on its
+      2006 entry: The plates spec §2.3 makes a format difference sufficient on its
       own, and here the format is the ONLY difference — same design, same
       slogan, same graphic, same everything visible except the arrangement of the
       characters. A dataset that keyed series to base designs would have one
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ series:
       plate_category: "DFA classifies it under the catalogue's 'Special Interest' plate category"
       basis: authority-stated
     superseded_variants:
-      - "the 1957-2007 five-numeral antique plate is reported NO LONGER ISSUED BUT STILL VALID — a dead series lawfully on the road, exactly the case PRD-PLATES's `ended: true` + `year_end_min:` semantics exist for. It is not given its own entry here because the only source for its own format is a locator and because L2 scope is the current series plus one back per class."
+      - "the 1957-2007 five-numeral antique plate is reported NO LONGER ISSUED BUT STILL VALID — a dead series lawfully on the road, exactly the case the plates spec's `ended: true` + `year_end_min:` semantics exist for. It is not given its own entry here because the only source for its own format is a locator and because L2 scope is the current series plus one back per class."
       - "a separate ANTIQUE MOTORCYCLE plate is reported with a three-numeral-plus-letter arrangement (123A) on an 'ARK. M CYCLE / ANTIQUE' legend — recorded here rather than as a series for the same reason."
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
@@ -370,13 +370,13 @@ series:
       "Antique Vehicle License Plate - Current" and "Antique Vehicle License
       Plate - Valid - No Longer Issued" as separate catalogue items. That is an
       issuing authority explicitly modelling a discontinued-but-still-valid
-      series in its own public catalogue — the same distinction PRD-PLATES draws
+      series in its own public catalogue — the same distinction the plates spec draws
       with `ended: true`, arrived at independently by a state DMV, and the
       strongest available evidence that the schema's period semantics match how
       registrars actually think.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX ONLY, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Arkansas gives the
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX ONLY, per the plates spec §2.5. Arkansas gives the
   # cleanest COUNT in this group, from the department's own content API.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-ar-specialty-index
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ series:
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      note: "one design per authorised program; individual designs are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per authorised program; individual designs are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here"
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
     program_index:
       count_official: 131

data/data/plates/us-as.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-as.yml — American Samoa (PRD-PLATES gate L2, territories group).
+# plates/us-as.yml — American Samoa (the plates spec gate L2, territories group).
 #
 # AMERICAN SAMOA CARRIES THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL LEGAL FINDING IN THE ENTIRE US
 # PASS, AND IT IS NOT ABOUT PLATES. The United States Copyright Office states
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # dimension, class prefixes or specialty programmes. Every claim below is
 # either from those seven sections or is marked as secondary.
 #
-# WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT HERE (PRD-PLATES §2.5): individual specialty DESIGNS.
+# WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT HERE (the plates spec §2.5): individual specialty DESIGNS.
 jurisdiction: us-as
 authority:
   name: American Samoa Department of Public Safety — Office of Motor Vehicles (the "Commissioner" of A.S.C.A. Title 22)
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ authority_url_note: >-
   substituted for the "Treasurer", per the Bar's own amendment note.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4 / §7.1.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4 / §7.1.
 # THIS IS THE STRONGEST POSTURE IN THE US DATASET AND IT DESERVES ITS SPACE.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     dataset, ahead of Florida, but do NOT treat it as unconditional. The
     conditions above are real and unresolved. The practical consequence for this
     programme is that American Samoa is the strongest candidate anywhere in the
-    US for an EMBLEM-SLOT UPGRADE under PRD-PLATES §7.1 — where artwork_risk and
+    US for an EMBLEM-SLOT UPGRADE under the plates spec §7.1 — where artwork_risk and
     the _art ledger must both clear, this jurisdiction clears the first test on
     stronger grounds than any state does.
   edicts: >-
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     every level ({{PD-US-GovEdict}}), so A.S.C.A. Title 22 is free to use
     regardless of how the territorial-scope question resolves.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default STILL APPLIES for now, and deliberately:
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default STILL APPLIES for now, and deliberately:
     the favourable copyright position does not touch the separate protection
     regimes for flags and seals, and the caveat above is unresolved. Render
     `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}` — but flag this jurisdiction
@@ -230,14 +230,14 @@ series:
     validation: "two decals per registration, one for each tag, denominating the registration period (22.1002(c)) — see display_rules"
     previous_base_reported:
       note: >-
-        DELIBERATELY NOT MINTED AS A SERIES, per PRD-PLATES §4's rule that
+        DELIBERATELY NOT MINTED AS A SERIES, per the plates spec §4's rule that
         Wikipedia's era tables are not sourced years. The locator reports a 2011
         changeover to the Fatu Rock base and, before that, "12-YY" year-indexed
         serials 1945-1951, three digits 1952-1966, and four digits from 1967. NO
         PRIMARY establishes any of those boundaries: A.S.C.A. Title 22 is
         format-silent and American Samoa publishes no reachable plate instrument.
         Rather than mint dated ids on folklore boundaries and then alias them
-        (PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6), the boundaries are recorded here and a dated series
+        (the quality spec I-5/I-6), the boundaries are recorded here and a dated series
         is added when a primary lands.
       reported_boundaries: ["1945-1951 12-YY (year-indexed)", "1952-1966 three digits", "1967-present four digits", "2011-present Fatu Rock base"]
       evidence: locator-only
@@ -320,8 +320,8 @@ series:
       - "https://asbar.org/code-annotated/22-1002-application-for-and-issuance-of-license-fees/  # 22.1002 — the whole statutory content of an American Samoa standard registration: the four preconditions, two decals placed on the tags, the fee schedule ($32.00 motor vehicle plus $12.00 per ton, $32.00 renewal, $2.00 bicycle, $10.00 titles and transfers, $9.00 late penalty), two tags on first registration or after five years' absence, $22.00 tag replacement, and the $7.00 per-fee allocation to a DPS fund for law-enforcement costs and for PRODUCTION of driver licences and vehicle registrations"
       - "https://asbar.org/code-annotated/22-1003-display-of-license/  # 22.1003: front and rear display, 50-foot legibility, illumination"
       - "https://asbar.org/code-annotated/22-1001-motor-vehicle-registration-and-license-required/  # 22.1001: the 'valid registration and vehicle license tags' requirement, and the statute's own vocabulary — American Samoa says TAGS, not plates"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_American_Samoa  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the four-digit numeric serial from 1967 with range 0001-9999, the 2011 Fatu Rock base, the 'Motu O Fiafiaga' slogan, 12x6 in aluminium, the reported 1977 adoption of the 6x12 standard, and the AC (agriculture) and R (rental) prefixes"
-      - "http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/PA_AMSA.html  # CORROBORATION + GAP-FINDER (PRD-PLATES §4): the full reported class/agency prefix table transcribed above as REPORTED data, the plate history from 1927, and the separate non-passenger categories (Cargo, Commercial Bus, Commercial Truck, Government Official, Government 2020 Series, Motorcycle, Public Service Vehicle, Rental Vehicle, Taxi). No licence statement on the site — treated as all rights reserved; facts only, no text or images copied"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_American_Samoa  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the four-digit numeric serial from 1967 with range 0001-9999, the 2011 Fatu Rock base, the 'Motu O Fiafiaga' slogan, 12x6 in aluminium, the reported 1977 adoption of the 6x12 standard, and the AC (agriculture) and R (rental) prefixes"
+      - "http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/PA_AMSA.html  # CORROBORATION + GAP-FINDER (the plates spec §4): the full reported class/agency prefix table transcribed above as REPORTED data, the plate history from 1927, and the separate non-passenger categories (Cargo, Commercial Bus, Commercial Truck, Government Official, Government 2020 Series, Motorcycle, Public Service Vehicle, Rental Vehicle, Taxi). No licence statement on the site — treated as all rights reserved; facts only, no text or images copied"
       - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/American_Samoa/asy2k.html  # CORROBORATION: dated photographs establishing multi-year decal stacking on single tags ('August 2019 through August 21', 'January 2017 through January 2023'), which is the practical confirmation of 22.1002(f)'s five-year reissue rule; plus dated taxi, rental, dealer, government and US Congressional-delegate plates"
       - "https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf  # AAMVA Ed.3 geometry and the 75-foot legibility recommendation against which American Samoa's statutory 50 feet is compared"
     notes: >-
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       AMERICAN SAMOA DEALER TAGS. THE WEAKEST-EVIDENCED SERIES IN THIS FILE and
       flagged as such: one photograph, one source, no prefix reported, no statute.
-      It is minted rather than dropped only because PRD-PLATES §7's L2 scope names
+      It is minted rather than dropped only because the plates spec §7's L2 scope names
       dealer as a core class to spec where the jurisdiction separately serialises
       it, and a cited placeholder with `matching: recall-only` is more useful to a
       consumer than silence. A verifier should treat this entry as the first thing

data/data/plates/us-az.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-az.yml — Arizona (PRD-PLATES gate L2, mountain group).
+# plates/us-az.yml — Arizona (the plates spec gate L2, mountain group).
 #
 # ARIZONA IS THE NAMED ADVERSE STATE, and this pass pins the evidence rather
 # than repeating the assertion. The US research dossier recorded Arizona as
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # rather than papered over — Arizona is the schema stressor for a mixed
 # alphanumeric position, exactly as Japan is for composed fields.
 #
-# WHAT IS NOT HERE (PRD-PLATES §2.5): individual special-plate DESIGNS.
+# WHAT IS NOT HERE (the plates spec §2.5): individual special-plate DESIGNS.
 jurisdiction: us-az
 authority:
   name: Arizona Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division (ADOT MVD)
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   onward).
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4. THE FLAGGED ONE.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4. THE FLAGGED ONE.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: copyright-expressly-asserted
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     re-verify the live text before anything is rendered.
   what_this_does_and_does_not_reach: >-
     It does NOT reach the statutes. Edicts of government are uncopyrightable at
-    every level (PRD-PLATES §4), so §§ 28-2351, 28-2354, 28-2356 and 28-2406 —
+    every level (the plates spec §4), so §§ 28-2351, 28-2354, 28-2356 and 28-2406 —
     every legal claim in this file — are public domain regardless of Arizona's
     posture, and the ADOT-sourced facts are facts. What the posture reaches is
     the DESIGN: the Four Peaks silhouette, the sunset gradient, the saguaro. In
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ artwork_risk:
   sources:
     - "https://azlibrary.gov/website-policies  # Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records (Office of the Arizona Secretary of State), Copyright Policy: 'Arizona state government works: Unlike federal works, state works are not in the public domain and are protected by copyright.' LIVE URL 403s to automated clients; read via https://web.archive.org/web/20230915005643/https://azlibrary.gov/website-policies"
     - "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/39/00121-03.htm  # A.R.S. § 39-121.03, the commercial-purpose public-records procedure the copyright policy routes commercial users through. NOT FETCHED in this pass (azleg.gov returned a socket hang-up on this section twice); pinned as the target to read, and no content is attributed to it here."
-    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4) — where the azlibrary.gov pointer was found. The policy itself is what is quoted."
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4) — where the azlibrary.gov pointer was found. The policy itself is what is quoted."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The US standards chain.
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ display_rules:
     in sans serif font and be three-fourths of an inch in height." This is the
     most typographically prescriptive plate provision found in this group of
     five states, and it prescribes a FONT CLASS rather than a font — consistent
-    with PRD-PLATES §6's finding that no surveyed jurisdiction mandates a
+    with the plates spec §6's finding that no surveyed jurisdiction mandates a
     licensable typeface.
   reflectivity: "§ 28-2351: 'The director shall coat the license plate with a reflective material that is consistent with the determination of the department regarding the color and design.'"
   sources:
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://www.azleg.gov/ars/28/02351.htm  # § 28-2351: the absence of any statutory serial constraint, the director's design power, the reflective coating, the contrast rule and the sans-serif state-name height"
       - "https://azdot.gov/adot-news/your-eyes-don%E2%80%99t-deceive-you-new-license-plate-numbers-are-different  # ADOT's own June 2020 announcement of the new plate-numbering system. NOT FETCHED — azdot.gov 403s to automated clients behind Cloudflare; pinned as the primary to read on a browser-capable pass, and no wording is attributed to it here."
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Arizona  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the February 2021 arrangement change, the six-position alphanumeric grammar with a digit fixed in position four, the non-standard progression order, the AAA 0AA start and the design description. None is asserted as sourced."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Arizona  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the February 2021 arrangement change, the six-position alphanumeric grammar with a digit fixed in position four, the non-standard progression order, the AAA 0AA start and the design description. None is asserted as sourced."
     notes: >-
       ARIZONA STANDARD ISSUE, CURRENT GENERATION. THE BASE DESIGN IS OLDER THAN
       THE SERIES: the desert scene dates to 1996 (flat-printed from January
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ series:
       has issued personalized plates for decades.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-az-special-plate-index
     class: specialty
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ series:
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      note: "one design per authorised programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per authorised programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here"
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
     program_index:
       count: unresearched
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ series:
       - "https://azdot.gov/motor-vehicles/vehicle-services/license-plates  # ADOT MVD's own plate index — PINNED BUT NOT FETCHED (403, Cloudflare). No claim in this entry rests on it."
     notes: >-
       THE SPECIAL-PLATE PROGRAM INDEX — one entry for the whole programme, per
-      PRD-PLATES §2.5. IT IS DELIBERATELY THIN, and the thinness is the finding:
+      the plates spec §2.5. IT IS DELIBERATELY THIN, and the thinness is the finding:
       Arizona is the only state in the mountain group whose issuing agency could
       not be reached at all. Everything in this file that is stated as fact came
       from azleg.gov (the legislature) or from an archived Secretary of State

data/data/plates/us-ca.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-ca.yml — California (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group: pacific).
+# plates/us-ca.yml — California (the plates spec gate L2, group: pacific).
 #
 # WHY CALIFORNIA IS THE DEEPEST US FILE IN THIS WAVE, and what makes it
 # different from the Florida pilot: Florida's plate FACTS live in the STATUTE
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 # obtained (recorded gap). The 1980 START of the format it replaced IS
 # agency-primary (Appendix 1E).
 #
-# REGEX FORM (PRD-PLATES §2.6): printed form throughout. California prints its
+# REGEX FORM (the plates spec §2.6): printed form throughout. California prints its
 # passenger serial with no separator at all, so no separator appears in any
 # regex here except in the personalized/temporary entries where the DMV's own
 # examples show none either.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   "Copyright (c) 2026 State of California").
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4/§7.1.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4/§7.1.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: public-domain-favourable-narrower-than-florida
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     analysis, but it IS an assertion by the issuing agency and a verifier
     should see it rather than discover it. The tension is not resolved here.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies to (a) the red "California"
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies to (a) the red "California"
     SCRIPT WORDMARK, which is the plate's whole graphic identity and is a
     specific lettering artwork rather than a fact, and (b) the Great Seal of
     California where it appears on exempt/legislative plates. US doctrine that
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ series:
         underlying citation chain is Wikipedia -> a San Jose Police Department
         training PDF, which is not the issuing authority. It is deliberately
         NOT written into `regex_strict`, because `regex_strict` is reserved for
-        the AUTHORITY's own alphabet (PRD-PLATES §2.7) and this is not it.
+        the AUTHORITY's own alphabet (the plates spec §2.7) and this is not it.
         Recorded as a gap for the verifier to chase to a DMV instrument.
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, w_mm: 304.8, h_mm: 152.4 }
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handbook/vehicle-industry-registration-procedures-manual-2/special-plates/personalized-configurations-mandatory-refusal/  # VIRPM 21.180: the 144 three-letter strings 'deleted from the regular series license plate configuration'; the restricted letter/number combination table naming the automobile, commercial, CA Exempt, DP and DV configurations"
       - "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH&sectionNum=4851  # § 4851: the entire statutory design rule — registration number + 'California' or 'Cal.' + year or validation device. No character cap, no colour, no legend."
       - "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-registration/license-plates-decals-and-placards/license-plates/  # DMV: plate dimensions 12x6 in (auto/commercial/trailer), 7x4 in (motorcycle, pre-1970 8x5), 7x4 in (identification, pre-1981 8x5); 'Generally, license plates remain with the vehicle they were issued to.'"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_California  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the March 2026 flip to 123ABC1 after 9ZZZ999, the 2011 dmv.ca.gov legend, the I/O/Q middle-letter rule, Folsom manufacture. None is asserted as sourced here."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_California  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the March 2026 flip to 123ABC1 after 9ZZZ999, the 2011 dmv.ca.gov legend, the I/O/Q middle-letter rule, Folsom manufacture. None is asserted as sourced here."
     notes: >-
       CALIFORNIA'S CURRENT STANDARD SERIES. PERIOD CAVEAT: `start: 2026` is the
       year of the instruments read (the live VIRPM and the 2026 Vehicle Code)
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ series:
         "SESQUICENTENNIAL - 150 YEARS" legend; 2001 legend removed; 2011
         "dmv.ca.gov" legend added. A future pass with a DMV instrument for any
         of those boundaries should split this series and alias this id under
-        the PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6 contract.
+        the quality spec I-5/I-6 contract.
       emblem: { present: false }
       graphic: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
       rear_differs: false
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ series:
       is LOCATOR-GRADE (reported March 2026 on exhaustion at 9ZZZ999) and is
       recorded as 2026 because the successor series is demonstrably in issue in
       2026; a verifier should replace it with a DMV instrument or downgrade it.
-      DISAGREEMENT RECORDED, NOT AVERAGED (PRD-PLATES §5.3): VIRPM Appendix 1E
+      DISAGREEMENT RECORDED, NOT AVERAGED (the plates spec §5.3): VIRPM Appendix 1E
       dates the blue-and-yellow base "1970-1980", Wikipedia dates it from 1969,
       and VC § 5004.3 — a statute — describes the blue/yellow appearance as
       that of plates "issued by the department from 1969 to 1986, inclusive".
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ series:
       rear_differs: false
       reproduction_note: "LOCATOR ONLY: the reissued plates use a modern reflective black coating rather than the original dull black paint, and the narrower character dies of the 7-character era rather than the wider 6-character dies of the originals. A collector-visible difference; recorded because a render should not claim to reproduce the 1963 artefact."
     program_threshold: "VC § 5004.3: the department must collect 'not less than 7,500 paid applications for any one of the particular plates' before issuing it, and had 'until January 1, 2015, to receive the required number of applications', with refunds if the threshold was missed."
-    program_outcome: "LOCATOR ONLY: only the 1960s black-with-yellow design reached 7,500 before the deadline; the 1950s yellow-with-black and 1970s blue-with-yellow designs did not, and are authorised but never issued. Recorded because an authorised-but-dead design is exactly the trap PRD-PLATES §2.5 warns about — the statute lists three, the road carries one."
+    program_outcome: "LOCATOR ONLY: only the 1960s black-with-yellow design reached 7,500 before the deadline; the 1950s yellow-with-black and 1970s blue-with-yellow designs did not, and are authorised but never issued. Recorded because an authorised-but-dead design is exactly the trap the plates spec §2.5 warns about — the statute lists three, the road carries one."
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
       - "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH&sectionNum=5004.3  # § 5004.3: the three legacy designs with their colours and their reference periods (1956-1962, 1965-1968, 1969-1986), the 7,500 paid-application threshold, the 1 January 2015 deadline and the refund rule"
@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/vr-manual-appendix-1e/  # VIRPM Appendix 1E .0110: the commercial series history — 1963-1969 A00000-Z99999 or 00000A-99999Z on the black base; 1970-1980 00000A-99999Z on the blue base; 1975-1980 also 1A00001-3Z99999"
     notes: >-
       COMMERCIAL PLATES. CLASS CAVEAT: recorded as `standard` because
-      _meta/classes.yml has no `commercial` value and the PRD's `standard`
+      _meta/classes.yml has no `commercial` value and the spec's `standard`
       definition ("the default series issued to private road vehicles") fits
       awkwardly. The same caveat Florida records for its Wrecker plate. The
       value of this entry is that its format is AGENCY-SOURCED — a US
@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ series:
       explain why a 2018 California car has no plate in a photograph.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Count and official
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5. Count and official
   # links only; no individual designs.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-ca-specialty-index
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ series:
         the left and sharp character contrast. That is directly renderable
         layout data, from the Legislature rather than from an agency.
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
-      note: "One design per authorised programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here."
+      note: "One design per authorised programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here."
     program_index:
       count_official: null
       count_official_note: >-
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handbook/vehicle-industry-registration-procedures-manual-2/special-plates/  # VIRPM Chapter 21: 56 sub-sections, the deeper official index"
     notes: >-
       THE CALIFORNIA SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry standing for the whole
-      programme, which is what PRD-PLATES §2.5 asks for at this gate. Two
+      programme, which is what the plates spec §2.5 asks for at this gate. Two
       things to carry forward. First, VC § 5060 is the best specialty-plate
       GEOMETRY source found anywhere in the US wave: a legislature that
       specifies a 2 x 3 inch design space and a 5/8 inch message strip is