vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/us-ga.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-ga.yml — Georgia (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group southeast-a).
+# plates/us-ga.yml — Georgia (the plates spec gate L2, group southeast-a).
 #
 # THE GEORGIA FINDING, AND IT IS THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL artwork_risk RESULT OF
 # THIS GROUP: GEORGIA IS A PUBLIC-DOMAIN STATE THAT HAS CARVED LICENSE PLATE
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "Official Code of Georgia Annotated, Title 40 (Motor Vehicles and Traffic), Chapter 2 — §§ 40-2-31, 40-2-41 and 40-2-60.1 as reproduced by codes.findlaw.com and read 2026-08-01"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4. THE HEADLINE.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4. THE HEADLINE.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: split-public-domain-state-with-statutory-plate-design-carve-out
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     — which means the ownership position on this particular plate may be split
     between the State and a third party. That is the WORST possible posture for
     a renderer and the strongest possible argument for the placeholder rule.
-  emblem_rule: "PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default, applied without exception. The Georgia state seal, if used on any plate, additionally carries seal-misuse protection independent of copyright, which is unresearched."
+  emblem_rule: "The plates spec §3's placeholder default, applied without exception. The Georgia state seal, if used on any plate, additionally carries seal-misuse protection independent of copyright, which is unresearched."
   photograph_caution: "Commons photographs of Georgia plates carry the photographer's licence on the photograph, not on the design — and in Georgia the design is affirmatively owned by the State. A CC BY-SA tag on a Georgia plate photo licenses nothing you need and clears nothing you actually risk. Our renders are generated from the statute and never derived from a photograph."
   sources:
     - "https://codes.findlaw.com/ga/title-40-motor-vehicles-and-traffic/ga-code-sect-40-2-60-1.html  # O.C.G.A. § 40-2-60.1 [via FindLaw]: the verbatim state-ownership sentence over special license plate designs and subsequent editions, with the licensed-from-others exception and the commissioner's authorisation power"
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ digital_plates:
     period — presumes a metal plate. Georgia has legislated a second kind of
     thing: a registration number RENDERED ON A DISPLAY by a third-party
     provider. Its "design" is software, its "colours" are emitted rather than
-    printed, and its content can change without a base change. PRD-PLATES has
+    printed, and its content can change without a base change. The plates spec has
     no field for it and needs none yet, but the dataset should know the case
     exists before it meets a jurisdiction that has gone digital at scale.
   scope_gap: "the extent of Georgia's digital-plate programme — which vehicle classes, which providers, whether the digital plate carries the same serial as a metal one — was NOT established in this pass (recorded gap)"
@@ -232,14 +232,14 @@ series:
       - "https://dor.georgia.gov/georgia-standard-license-plate-designs  # Georgia DOR names the three current standard elections: 'Georgia vehicle owners may select either the current Peach Plate, Peach Orchard Plate, or the new USA Semiquincentennial/America 250 plate'"
       - "https://codes.findlaw.com/ga/title-40-motor-vehicles-and-traffic/ga-code-sect-40-2-31.html  # § 40-2-31(a) the distinctive number and the digital-plate clause; (b) the 6 x 12 in minima, the boldface required contents, the county designation, the 'Peach State' advertising authority and the five-year service floor; (c) complete retroreflective treatment; (d)-(g) the decals"
       - "https://dor.georgia.gov/motor-vehicles/vehicle-registration-license-plates/specialty-prestige-license-plates  # DOR: 'Prestige license plates are only issued on the STANDARD PEACH PLATE BACKGROUND' — which identifies this base, by the agency's own name for it, as Georgia's canonical standard"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the May 2012 start, the ABC1234 arrangement, the PFA1000/QFA1000 blocks, the historical charset exclusions, and the note that 'In God We Trust' can be printed at the bottom in place of the county name"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the May 2012 start, the ABC1234 arrangement, the PFA1000/QFA1000 blocks, the historical charset exclusions, and the note that 'In God We Trust' can be printed at the bottom in place of the county name"
     notes: >-
       GEORGIA'S PLAIN PEACH PLATE — the canonical standard base, and the one
       the agency itself treats as canonical: DOR states that prestige (vanity)
       plates issue ONLY on "the standard peach plate background", which
       distinguishes it from its Peach Orchard sibling as a matter of official
       practice rather than of appearance. The two run concurrently from the same
-      base change and differ only in the graphic, which under PRD-PLATES §2.3
+      base change and differ only in the graphic, which under the plates spec §2.3
       (design difference is sufficient) makes them two series. The statutory
       "Peach State" advertising clause is the entry's best find: Georgia does
       not merely permit a peach on its plate, it directs the commissioner to
@@ -390,14 +390,14 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)  # LOCATOR ONLY: a second serial arrangement, AB1CDE, reported from March 2026 on the same base, running AA1AAA to AA1ADB as of April 2026"
     notes: >-
       A SECOND SERIAL ARRANGEMENT ON THE AMERICA 250 BASE, GIVEN ITS OWN SERIES
-      BECAUSE PRD-PLATES §2.3 SAYS FORMAT DIFFERENCE IS SUFFICIENT — and it is
+      BECAUSE the plates spec §2.3 SAYS FORMAT DIFFERENCE IS SUFFICIENT — and it is
       worth pausing on how odd this is. Georgia opened a new alphabet-heavy
       format (LLL9LL) in January 2026 and then, two months later, opened a
       SECOND one (LL9LLL) on the same design. Two readings are possible: the
       first block is exhausting far faster than planned, or the two arrangements
       are allocated to different vehicle populations. NEITHER IS ESTABLISHED,
       and the honest record is both readings and no choice between them
-      (PRD-PLATES §5.3: record disagreements, never average them). This is the
+      (the plates spec §5.3: record disagreements, never average them). This is the
       thinnest-sourced series in the Georgia file and should be verified before
       the parse API relies on it.
 
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ series:
     design:
       plate: { 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 }
       ownership_warning: >-
           UNIQUE TO GEORGIA IN THIS GROUP, AND IT BELONGS ON THE DESIGN BLOCK
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ series:
       - "https://mvd.dor.ga.gov/motor/plates/PlateSelection.aspx  # Georgia MVD's Search License Plate Designs service: the full alphabetical list enumerated at 340 entries, the 14 'New plates are no longer available' markers, and the per-branch/per-body-style military and motorcycle variants"
       - "https://codes.findlaw.com/ga/title-40-motor-vehicles-and-traffic/ga-code-sect-40-2-60-1.html  # O.C.G.A. § 40-2-60.1 [via FindLaw]: what a special license plate is for, and the State's sole ownership of the designs"
     notes: >-
-      THE GEORGIA SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — per PRD-PLATES §2.5, a count and a
+      THE GEORGIA SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — per the plates spec §2.5, a count and a
       programme-list reference with source URLs, and no individual designs.
       Three findings worth carrying. FIRST, the count is given twice and
       honestly: the agency says "hundreds", the agency's own list enumerates to

data/data/plates/us-gu.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-gu.yml — Guam (PRD-PLATES gate L2, territories group).
+# plates/us-gu.yml — Guam (the plates spec 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
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # 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.
+# WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT HERE (the plates spec §2.5): individual specialty DESIGNS.
 # `us-gu-specialty-index` indexes the statutory programmes and nothing more.
 jurisdiction: us-gu
 authority:
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ authority_url_note: >-
   papered over.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# 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: unresearched-presumed-protected
@@ -68,9 +68,9 @@ artwork_risk:
     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.
+    the split the plates spec §4 anticipates.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies without exception to the LATTE
+    the plates spec §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
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ series:
       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
+      CONTESTED, AND RECORDED RATHER THAN AVERAGED (the plates spec §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
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ series:
     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"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Guam  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §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: >-
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ series:
       - "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
+      GUAM'S PREVIOUS STANDARD BASE — the "one series back" the plates spec §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
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ series:
       missing.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — INDEX ONLY, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Guam's specialty catalogue is
+  # SPECIALTY — INDEX ONLY, per the plates spec §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
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ series:
       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" }
+      plate: { note: "one design per statutory 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_statutory: 7
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ series:
       - "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,
+      the plates spec §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}`

data/data/plates/us-hi.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-hi.yml — Hawaii (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group: pacific).
+# plates/us-hi.yml — Hawaii (the plates spec gate L2, group: pacific).
 #
 # HAWAII IS THE ONE US JURISDICTION IN THIS WAVE WHERE THE STATE DOES NOT ISSUE
 # THE PLATES. Under HRS chapter 249 the issuing officers are the four COUNTY
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 # NOTE ON THE ʻOKINA: the statute's glyph is the ʻokina (U+02BB). The
 # capitol.hawaii.gov HTML renders it as a backtick, and it is quoted below in
 # the form the instrument served. No serial in this dataset contains it — it
-# appears only in the LEGEND, never in the plate number, so PRD-PLATES §2.6's
+# appears only in the LEGEND, never in the plate number, so the plates spec §2.6's
 # serial alphabet is untouched.
 #
 # SOURCING NOTE: capitol.hawaii.gov is behind a Cloudflare challenge that
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   of the 7 January 2025 file set; § 249-9 as last amended by L 2024, c 64, § 1.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# 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: adverse-on-commercial-reuse
@@ -64,11 +64,11 @@ artwork_risk:
   countervailing: >-
     The FACTS in this file are almost entirely drawn from HRS chapter 249,
     which is an EDICT OF GOVERNMENT and public domain at every level
-    (PRD-PLATES §4). Nothing in a terms-of-use page can reach the text of a
+    (the plates spec §4). Nothing in a terms-of-use page can reach the text of a
     statute. So the format, geometry, legend and class facts here are clean;
     it is the ARTWORK — the rainbow graphic — that the term bites on.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies with unusual force in Hawaii,
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies with unusual force in Hawaii,
     for two independent reasons. (1) The RAINBOW graphic that fills the
     standard plate is the design's entire identity and is not described in any
     instrument — it is departmental artwork, and the portal terms forbid
@@ -250,14 +250,14 @@ series:
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/2024id_/https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol04_Ch0201-0257/HRS0249/HRS_0249-0009.htm  # § 249-9(a)(1)-(4): the 1 January 2025 'Hawaii' -> 'Hawai`i' legend split (am L 2024, c 64), 'Aloha State' at the bottom, the case permissiveness, the distinct-contrast rule, the any-shape/size/color delegation to the county directors by majority consent, the 3 in / 3/8 in character geometry, the Honolulu procurement contract, and AG Op. 67-17 on uniformity"
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/2024id_/https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol04_Ch0201-0257/HRS0249/HRS_0249-0007.htm  # § 249-7(b): a new series of number plates is issued 'as determined by the directors of finance of each county through majority consent' — the mechanism by which a Hawaii base changes"
       - "https://www8.honolulu.gov/csd/motor-vehicle-license-plates/  # City and County of Honolulu, the issuing authority for Oʻahu: the standard plate illustration showing Hawaii spelled with the ʻokina; the $5.00 plate replacement and $0.50 emblem replacement fees"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Hawaii  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the ABC 123 arrangement, the county-letter allocation table, the I/O/Q exclusion, and the 2023 addition of A-D to Honolulu. None asserted as sourced."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Hawaii  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the ABC 123 arrangement, the county-letter allocation table, the I/O/Q exclusion, and the 2023 addition of A-D to Honolulu. None asserted as sourced."
     notes: >-
       HAWAII'S CURRENT STANDARD SERIES, AND THE BEST-DATED SERIES BOUNDARY IN
       THE ENTIRE PACIFIC GROUP. `period_evidence: statutory-date` is earned:
       HRS § 249-9(a)(2) says in terms that plates issued ON OR AFTER 1 JANUARY
       2025 bear "Hawai`i" with the ʻokina, and § 249-9(a)(1) says plates issued
       before that date bear "Hawaii" without it. A legend difference is a design
-      difference and therefore its own series under PRD-PLATES §2.3, so the
+      difference and therefore its own series under the plates spec §2.3, so the
       boundary is not a curiosity — it is the cut. It also produces something a
       parse API can actually use: two visually near-identical rainbow plates
       whose ERA is readable from a single diacritic. THE LIMIT OF THIS ENTRY,
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ series:
           six-character cap on the alphanumerics themselves.
         refusal_rule: "§ 249-9.1: the director 'shall not issue special number plates which have the letter and numeral combination of regular plates, are misleading or publicly objectionable' — a collision rule plus a taste rule, in one sentence, with no published criteria list (contrast California's VIRPM 21.180, which publishes both the criteria and the excluded strings)."
       separator_note: >-
-        PRD-PLATES §2.6 SANCTIONS THIS AND HAWAII IS WHY THE RULE IS WRITTEN AS
+        the plates spec §2.6 SANCTIONS THIS AND HAWAII IS WHY THE RULE IS WRITTEN AS
         IT IS. The hyphen here is an EMITTED SEPARATOR (U+002D), spelled as a
         literal, never inside a character class, so a consumer deriving the
         separator-free twin deletes it and recovers the six-character serial
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ series:
       does so twice over: it permits exactly one hyphen and then forbids
       everything else ("No other punctuation marks shall be allowed"). That is
       a statutory confirmation of the separator contract from the outside — a
-      legislature independently arriving at the same closed set PRD-PLATES §2.6
+      legislature independently arriving at the same closed set the plates spec §2.6
       declares. The re-application-on-design-change rule is the other keeper:
       it is administrative proof that the counties themselves treat a legend
       change as a break in the series, which corroborates cutting
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ series:
       that is the honest limit of the entry.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Hawaii's programme is
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5. Hawaii's programme is
   # structurally unlike Florida's or California's: it is a DECAL regime, run
   # by the counties, with the size of the decal fixed by statute.
   # =========================================================================
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ series:
         delegated and were not located (recorded gap); only the 3 in x 3 in
         maximum is statutory.
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
-      note: "One decal per authorised organization; the decal designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here."
+      note: "One decal per authorised organization; the decal designs themselves are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here."
     program_index:
       count_official: null
       count_official_note: >-

data/data/plates/us-ia.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-ia.yml — Iowa (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group midwest-b).
+# plates/us-ia.yml — Iowa (the plates spec gate L2, group midwest-b).
 #
 # IOWA PUTS THE COUNTY ON EVERY PLATE, BY STATUTE, AND IT IS NOT A CODE. Iowa
 # Code § 321.166(2): "Every registration plate issued by the county treasurer
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 321 (Motor Vehicles and Law of the Road), §§ 321.34 and 321.166 as published by the Iowa Legislature; and Iowa Administrative Code 761 ch. 401 (Special Registration Plates), whose rule 401.3 carries [ARC 8937C, IAB 2/19/25, effective 3/26/25]"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     ({{PD-US-GovEdict}}), so nearly the whole factual layer of this file is affirmatively
     clean regardless of Iowa's posture on artwork.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies to the current Iowa base graphic and to
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies to the current Iowa base graphic and to
     the 'processed emblem' and 'organization decal' that § 321.166(9) provides space for
     on special plates. The organization decals carry an ADDITIONAL layer: § 321.34(13)
     decals are designed by nonprofit organizations and approved by the department, so they
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`. Iowa state-seal misuse statutes are
     unresearched.
   sources:
-    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): read to establish that Iowa has NO section in the survey — a negative result, recorded as such"
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): read to establish that Iowa has NO section in the survey — a negative result, recorded as such"
     - "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/321.166.pdf  # Iowa Code § 321.166, the statutory plate specification itself — an edict of government, PD"
 
 us_standards:
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/321.166.pdf  # Iowa Code § 321.166(6): the mandatory 'DV' prefix on disabled-veteran plates issued under § 321.105, and the optional persons-with-disabilities parking sticker under § 321L.2"
     notes: >-
       DISABLED VETERAN PLATES. Its own series because the statute mandates a FORMAT
-      difference — a literal prefix inside the plate number — which under PRD-PLATES §2.3 is
+      difference — a literal prefix inside the plate number — which under the plates spec §2.3 is
       a series-making difference of a stronger kind than a mere legend change. CLASS
       CAVEAT: recorded as `standard`, since _meta/classes.yml has no veteran or disability
       class and this is an ordinary registration carrying a mandated prefix. Iowa's
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ series:
       wrote the colours into law and the other wrote only a permission.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Counted from the statute.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5. Counted from the statute.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-ia-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ series:
         standard plate plus an emblem slot — which is why the emblem-plate character ceiling
         exists and why most Iowa specialty designs are not free-form.
       exempt_from_consistency: ["gold star", "medal of honor", "collegiate", "fire fighter", "natural resources", "blackout", "flying our colors"]
-      note: "one design per authorised program; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per authorised program; the designs themselves are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here"
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
     program_index:
       count_statutory: 30
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ series:
         count includes subsections that are not really specialty designs at all (permanent
         plates, sample plates). No Iowa DOT figure exists to reconcile against, because the
         Iowa DOT site returned HTTP 403 on every request in this pass. Recorded, not
-        averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+        averaged (the plates spec §5.3).
       organization_decal_program: >-
         § 321.34(13) with Iowa Admin. Code r. 761-401.4: a nonprofit organization meeting the
         § 321.34(13)'a'/'b' criteria applies on Form 411346 for approval of a decal DESIGN,
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/iac/chapter/761.401.pdf  # Iowa Admin. Code 761 ch. 401: r. 401.3 the two-character floor and five-character emblem-plate ceiling; r. 401.4 the nonprofit decal approval process, Form 411346, the 60-day decision and revocation; r. 401.5 personalized plate ordering, rejection and prohibition rules"
     notes: >-
       THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry standing for the whole program, per
-      PRD-PLATES §2.5, with no individual designs. Iowa counts cleanly from the statute the
+      the plates spec §2.5, with no individual designs. Iowa counts cleanly from the statute the
       way North Dakota does, and carries the same honest caveat in sharper form: the
       open-ended § 321.34(13) decal program means the DESIGN count is unbounded from the
       Code alone, while several counted subsections are not designs at all. The genuinely

data/data/plates/us-id.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-id.yml — Idaho (PRD-PLATES gate L2, northwest group).
+# plates/us-id.yml — Idaho (the plates spec gate L2, northwest group).
 #
 # READ THIS FIRST: IDAHO IS THE WEAKEST-SOURCED FILE IN THIS GROUP, AND THE
 # REASON IS ACCESS, NOT ABSENCE. legislature.idaho.gov refused the TLS
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # way. SO IDAHO CODE 49-443 — the section that should carry the plate design,
 # the county designator and the numbering rule — WAS NEVER READ. Every other
 # state in this group rests on statute; Idaho rests on the Idaho
-# Transportation Department's own published pages, which PRD-PLATES §4 ranks
+# Transportation Department's own published pages, which the plates spec §4 ranks
 # as PRIMARY but second-preference, plus clearly-flagged locator material.
 # The verifier should treat re-fetching Idaho Code 49-443 from a working
 # network as the single highest-value action on this file.
@@ -47,13 +47,13 @@ statute_edition: >-
   ABSENT, not summarised.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# 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: unresearched
   basis: >-
     UNRESEARCHED, AND RECORDED HONESTLY RATHER THAN GUESSED. Idaho appears
-    NOWHERE in the standing per-state copyright survey PRD-PLATES §4 works
+    NOWHERE in the standing per-state copyright survey the plates spec §4 works
     from — neither in the favourable column (FL, CA, NC, NJ, MA, GA) nor in
     the adverse column (NY, AZ, PA, WA). No {{PD-IDGov}} tag exists among the
     state templates listed on Wikimedia Commons' US per-territory page. No
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     Appaloosa plate likewise implicates a breed-registry mark. So even a
     favourable Idaho finding would not clear the whole catalogue.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies to the scenic mountain
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies to the scenic mountain
     graphic, the sky gradient and every special-plate design without
     exception. No Idaho emblem is a candidate for an upgrade at this gate:
     upgrades require BOTH a cleared artwork_risk and a ledger entry, and Idaho
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ series:
           series fills — are LOCATOR-GRADE, and the regex is deliberately
           written as their UNION rather than as any one of them. That union is
           wider than any grammar Idaho issues, which is exactly what
-          `matching: recall-only` means under PRD-PLATES §2.7: a match here is
+          `matching: recall-only` means under the plates spec §2.7: a match here is
           a shape hit and nothing more.
         personalized_exclusion_note: >-
           ONE REAL, AGENCY-SOURCED CHARSET FACT EXISTS, though it governs
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ series:
           delicious inconsistency this creates with the county designator
           table, in which Oneida and Owyhee are reported as 1O and 2O — the
           exclusion binds the owner, not the department.
-      separator_note: "The boundary between the county designator and the plate number is spelled as the separator-only class `[- ]`, sanctioned by PRD-PLATES §2.8, because it is a printed GAP and no authority text names a glyph. `pattern` shows the canonical printed form with a space."
+      separator_note: "The boundary between the county designator and the plate number is spelled as the separator-only class `[- ]`, sanctioned by the plates spec §2.8, because it is a printed GAP and no authority text names a glyph. `pattern` shows the canonical printed form with a space."
       progression: >-
         LOCATOR-GRADE, NOT ASSERTED: the encyclopedia record reports the
         trailing letter advancing as each county's block fills, with Ada
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://itd.idaho.gov/dmv/registrations-plates-titles/license-plates/  # ITD, quoted throughout: 'Idaho's standard license plate is the red, white and blue scenic Idaho plate'; 'Standard plates cost $3.75 per plate'; 'All plates regardless of design are good for 10 years with active registration'; 'The standard plate includes a \"county designator\" in the plate number that corresponds with the county you live in'; the made-to-order / six-week USPS fulfilment model; the personalized-plate rules including the letter-O exclusion"
       - "https://itd.idaho.gov/faqs/permanent-plates-and-no-registration-stickers/  # ITD FAQ: the 1 July 2026 change, House Bill 533 (registration stickers) and House Bill 577 (the ten-year replacement requirement), quoted verbatim"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Idaho  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the county designator table, the reported serial arrangements and trailing-letter progression, the September 1991 base introduction, the 1987-1991 Centennial predecessor, the FAMOUS POTATOES legend, and the non-passenger formats. NONE of it is asserted as sourced here."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Idaho  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the county designator table, the reported serial arrangements and trailing-letter progression, the September 1991 base introduction, the 1987-1991 Centennial predecessor, the FAMOUS POTATOES legend, and the non-passenger formats. NONE of it is asserted as sourced here."
       - "https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf  # AAMVA Ed.3 §1.1 — the 7-to-10-year recommendation Idaho met and then abolished"
     notes: >-
       IDAHO STANDARD ISSUE. `matching: recall-only` IS THE HONEST DESCRIPTION
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ series:
       being closed.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Agency-counted.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5. Agency-counted.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-id-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ series:
     format:
       pattern: "9L 999L"
       regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?:[- ]?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
-      charset: { notes: "no per-programme grammar was sourced; individual specialty specs are L4 per PRD-PLATES §2.5. The index carries a deliberately wide union and is recall-only." }
+      charset: { notes: "no per-programme grammar was sourced; individual specialty specs are L4 per the plates spec §2.5. The index carries a deliberately wide union and is recall-only." }
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, dimension_basis: convention-observed }
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Idaho  # LOCATOR ONLY: the reported ~40 active designs and the programme names"
     notes: >-
       THE IDAHO SPECIALTY INDEX — one entry standing for the whole programme,
-      per PRD-PLATES §2.5. The count is AGENCY-SOURCED ("over 40", ITD's own
+      per the plates spec §2.5. The count is AGENCY-SOURCED ("over 40", ITD's own
       words), which is stronger than Oregon's (unpublished) and Wyoming's
       (enumerated but not totalled), though weaker than Washington's
       (a statutory table). Two follow-ups are pinned and both are cheap:
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ series:
         excluded: ["O"]
         excluded_encoding_note: >-
           THE EXCLUSION LIVES IN `charset.excluded`, NOT IN THE REGEX, AND
-          THAT IS THE SCHEMA WORKING AS DESIGNED. PRD-PLATES §2.7 makes
+          THAT IS THE SCHEMA WORKING AS DESIGNED. The plates spec §2.7 makes
           `format.regex` the round-trippable tier — it is generated against
           `format.pattern` by the lint and therefore CANNOT carry charset
           restrictions, which is precisely why `regex_strict` and
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ series:
       department-assigned, which is a format property — and because it carries
       THE ONLY GENUINELY SOURCED CHARSET EXCLUSION IN THIS ENTIRE FILE. The
       letter-O rule is worth the whole entry: it is an authority's own words
-      about its own alphabet, which is exactly what PRD-PLATES §2.7 wants, and
+      about its own alphabet, which is exactly what the plates spec §2.7 wants, and
       it produces the pleasing inconsistency that Idaho's own county
       designators for Oneida and Owyhee use a letter its citizens may not
       choose. `recall-only` only because the LENGTH cap is unsourced; if the

data/data/plates/us-il.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-il.yml — Illinois (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group midwest-a).
+# plates/us-il.yml — Illinois (the plates spec gate L2, group midwest-a).
 #
 # WHY ILLINOIS IS THE BEST-SOURCED FILE IN THIS GROUP: alone among the five
 # midwest-a states, Illinois legislates the PLATE ITSELF rather than delegating
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #      of this dataset has never had to face; it is flagged, not modelled.
 #   2. THE 2017 BASE CHANGED ITS OWN LAYOUT MID-RUN — from AB1 2345 to AB 12345,
 #      same seven characters, moved space. That is precisely the case
-#      PRD-PLATES §2.6 was written for: a separator-forgiving consumer
+#      the plates spec §2.6 was written for: a separator-forgiving consumer
 #      canonicalizes both to one serial, which is why the dataset commits to
 #      which characters are separators.
 #   3. THE SOLIDUS IN COLLECTOR NOTATION IS NOT A SEPARATOR. Illinois plates
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 # codes.findlaw.com, a third-party REPRODUCTION of the same edict; canonical
 # ilga.gov citations are carried alongside and were NOT fetched.
 #
-# NOT HERE, DELIBERATELY: individual specialty DESIGNS (L4 per PRD-PLATES §2.5)
+# NOT HERE, DELIBERATELY: individual specialty DESIGNS (L4 per the plates spec §2.5)
 # and the vanity/personalized series, which sit outside the L2 core-class list —
 # the statutory vanity grammar is recorded instead as evidence inside the
 # standard series' charset notes, where it does real work.
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "Illinois Compiled Statutes, Chapter 625 Act 5 (Illinois Vehicle Code), Article IV of Chapter 3, as reproduced by codes.findlaw.com and read 2026-08-02. FindLaw warns its text 'may not reflect the most recent version of the law'; currency is UNVERIFIED."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched-default-adverse
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ artwork_risk:
     legibility standard and the 'Land of Lincoln' legend are all EDICTS OF
     GOVERNMENT, which are public domain at every level. The adverse posture bites
     on the Lincoln portrait and skyline artwork, not on the spec — which is
-    exactly the split PRD-PLATES §4 predicts and the reason it prefers statutes
+    exactly the split the plates spec §4 predicts and the reason it prefers statutes
     over brochures.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies. The current base carries a grey
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies. The current base carries a grey
     Abraham Lincoln portrait graphic and a Chicago/Springfield skyline — pictorial
     artwork in a state with no PD posture, i.e. the highest-risk category. Render
     `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`; do not approximate the
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ series:
           exactly. That is evidence, not a grammar, so no `regex_statutory` is
           recorded — the vanity rule does not bound department-assigned serials.
       layout_change_note: >-
-        THE SEPARATOR CASE, and the reason PRD-PLATES §2.6 exists. Within the
+        THE SEPARATOR CASE, and the reason the plates spec §2.6 exists. Within the
         first year of this base the printed layout moved from AB1 2345 to
         AB 12345 — the SAME SEVEN CHARACTERS, with the space relocated from
         after the first digit to after the letters. A separator-forgiving
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ series:
           The Illinois dealer plate prints a stacked D-over-L pair (collector
           notation 'D/L') ahead of a variable-length numeric group, and under
           AAMVA Ed.3 that stacked pair IS part of the official plate number. The
-          honest `pattern` would therefore be "DL 99999" — but PRD-PLATES §2.2's
+          honest `pattern` would therefore be "DL 99999" — but the plates spec §2.2's
           human-pattern DSL reserves `L` for "any letter" and `9` for "any
           digit" and provides NO ESCAPE for a literal L or a literal 9, so that
           string cannot be written: the lint correctly generates "DF 23681" from
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ series:
           the AAMVA reading used throughout this file. A match against this regex
           says 'this string has the SHAPE of an Illinois public-fleet plate' and
           nothing more — it is not a validity claim for any one of the three
-          series, and per PRD-PLATES §2.7 a `regex_strict` here would be a
+          series, and per the plates spec §2.7 a `regex_strict` here would be a
           contradiction and is absent.
     design:
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ series:
       charset: { notes: "special plates carry ordinary serials on an alternative design; 625 ILCS 5/3-405.1's ban on 'characters, symbols... foreign words, or letters of punctuation' applies to the owner-chosen space and is the only statutory alphabet rule in Illinois plate law" }
     design:
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      note: "one design per approved special plate; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per approved special plate; the designs themselves are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here"
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
     program_index:
       count_official: null
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Illinois  # LOCATOR ONLY: the categories of Illinois specialty plates, with no count given"
     notes: >-
       THE ILLINOIS SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry for the whole programme per
-      PRD-PLATES §2.5. The catalogue count is a declared gap, but Illinois gives
+      the plates spec §2.5. The catalogue count is a declared gap, but Illinois gives
       something better and more durable than a count: the programme's CREATION and
       DEATH thresholds, in statute. 2,000 applications to be born, fewer than
       1,000 live sets over two years to be killed. Those numbers will still be

data/data/plates/us-in.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-in.yml — Indiana (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group midwest-a).
+# plates/us-in.yml — Indiana (the plates spec gate L2, group midwest-a).
 #
 # WHAT INDIANA IS FOR IN THIS DATASET: the cleanest DELEGATION case in the US
 # so far, and the direct analogue of Germany's §9 FZV trap. Indiana's
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 # codes.findlaw.com, a third-party REPRODUCTION of the same edict; the canonical
 # iga.in.gov citation is carried alongside every FindLaw URL and was NOT fetched.
 #
-# NOT HERE, DELIBERATELY (PRD-PLATES §2.5 + L2 scope): individual specialty
+# NOT HERE, DELIBERATELY (the plates spec §2.5 + L2 scope): individual specialty
 # DESIGNS (L4); Indiana's truck (TK), semi-tractor (TC) and permanent
 # semi-trailer (SP) series, which are outside the L2 core-class list and are
 # recorded only as evidence of the class-token convention; and DEALER,
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "Indiana Code Title 9 (Motor Vehicles), Articles 18.1 and 18.5, as reproduced by codes.findlaw.com and read 2026-08-02. FindLaw's own banner warns it 'may not reflect the most recent version of the law'; the currency of this text is therefore UNVERIFIED."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched-default-adverse
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     unresearched-default-adverse with the near-miss stated, because a future
     researcher will find IC 5-14-3-3 and be tempted by it.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies. The current base is a pictorial
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies. The current base is a pictorial
     country scene with a covered bridge; render
     `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}` and approximate nothing.
     State-seal protection is independent of copyright and is unresearched for
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ us_standards:
     The "1956 AMA standardization agreement" is UNCITED in its Wikipedia source
     and is not relied on here. Note the trap it sets for Indiana specifically:
     the Indiana article cites an ALPCA page for 'standard plate size
-    documentation', which is precisely the circular enthusiast sourcing PRD-PLATES
+    documentation', which is precisely the circular enthusiast sourcing the plates spec
     §4 warns about. No Indiana plate dimension is recorded in this file.
 
 display_rules:
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ series:
       from 1950 to 1962 a two-letter county prefix. Since 2008 the county number
       and name ride on a sticker at the top of the plate. So a decode table for
       Indiana geography is PERIOD-BOUND and applies only to pre-2008 serials —
-      exactly the trap PRD-PLATES §2.4 records for the French SIV band. All of
+      exactly the trap the plates spec §2.4 records for the French SIV band. All of
       this is secondary; no primary was obtained.
     sources:
       - "https://codes.findlaw.com/in/title-9-motor-vehicles/in-code-sect-9-18-1-4-3.html  # FETCHED. IC 9-18.1-4-3, the delegation: 'The bureau shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 regarding the size, character, display, mounting, securing, content, issuance, replacement, and life cycle of license plates, temporary license plates, renewal stickers, and other proof of registration.' This is the reason no format claim in this file can be statute-grade."
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       INDIANA STANDARD ISSUE, CURRENT BASE. The id is dated on a
       SECONDARY first-issue year and carries `period_evidence:
-      secondary-first-issue` to say so; PRD-QUALITY's id contract means a dated
+      secondary-first-issue` to say so; the quality spec's id contract means a dated
       id minted on a soft boundary must be aliased rather than moved if the
       boundary shifts, so the flag is load-bearing, not decorative. The entry's
       real contribution to the dataset is the two structural facts around the
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ series:
       charset: { notes: "specialty and 'special group recognition' plates carry ordinary serials on an alternative design; no distinct grammar was sourced" }
     design:
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      note: "one design per authorised group; designs are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per authorised group; designs are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here"
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
     program_index:
       count_official: null
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.in.gov/bmv/  # FETCHED (root only): the BMV's own promotion of the blackout plate and its 'Specialty & Personalized License Plates' section"
     notes: >-
       THE INDIANA SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry for the whole programme per
-      PRD-PLATES §2.5, with the count declared as a gap. The structural finding is
+      the plates spec §2.5, with the count declared as a gap. The structural finding is
       that Indiana routes optional plates through a dedicated CODE ARTICLE
       (IC 9-18.5) rather than through per-plate statutes as Ohio does or through a
       petition threshold as Illinois and Wisconsin do. That article is the right