vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/us-ks.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-ks.yml — Kansas (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group midwest-b).
+# plates/us-ks.yml — Kansas (the plates spec gate L2, group midwest-b).
 #
 # KANSAS IS THE ONLY STATE IN THIS GROUP WHOSE SERIAL ARRANGEMENT IS FIXED BY
 # STATUTE. K.S.A. 8-147(c) does not delegate the format to the agency the way
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "Kansas Statutes Annotated Chapter 8 (Automobiles and Other Vehicles), Article 1, as published by the Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes and fetched for this pass. K.S.A. 8-147 carries a 2025 amendment (L. 2025, ch. 75, § 6), so the design provisions read here are current to the 2025 session."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched
@@ -56,13 +56,13 @@ artwork_risk:
     level ({{PD-US-GovEdict}}). So the entire format layer of this file is affirmatively
     clean regardless of what Kansas thinks about its artwork. Only the artwork is exposed.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies to whatever graphic the current Kansas
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies to whatever graphic the current Kansas
     base carries — which this pass could not identify, since the Department of Revenue
     site timed out. Render `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`. Kansas
     state-seal misuse statutes are a protection regime independent of copyright and 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 Kansas 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 Kansas has NO section in the survey — a negative result, recorded as such"
     - "https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch08/008_001_0047.html  # K.S.A. 8-147, the statutory design spec itself — an edict of government, PD"
 
 us_standards:
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ series:
       their boundaries was obtained, and the Department of Revenue site was unreachable.
       Minting a dated id on an inferred five-year step would be inventing a boundary the
       statute expressly allows the director to move. When a primary lands, a dated id is
-      added and this id becomes its former-id alias under the PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6 contract.
+      added and this id becomes its former-id alias under the quality spec I-5/I-6 contract.
       PERIOD CAVEAT: `start: 2025` is the statute edition read — K.S.A. 8-147 was amended
       in the 2025 session — and is an UPPER BOUND on the true start of the current base,
       not a claim about it. THE ONE SERIES BACK IS A RECORDED GAP for the same reason.
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ series:
       eligibility threshold and fee were not obtained (recorded gap).
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-ks-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ series:
       regex_statutory: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
       charset: { notes: "K.S.A. 8-147(c) requires the arrangement to be 'uniform throughout each classification of registration', so a specialty classification has ITS OWN uniform arrangement, which need not be the passenger three-and-three; the arrangement per specialty class was not obtained (recorded gap)" }
     design:
-      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_official: null
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch08/008_001_0047.html  # K.S.A. 8-147(c): 'Except as authorized by other provisions of law' — the clause under which individually legislated Kansas specialty plates displace the general arrangement, and the per-classification uniformity rule"
       - "https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch08/008_001_0032.html  # K.S.A. 8-132(c): specialty and standard designs alike may be personalized, which is what makes the specialty serial space share the personalized caps"
     notes: >-
-      THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — present as required by PRD-PLATES §2.5, but CARRYING NO
+      THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — present as required by the plates spec §2.5, but CARRYING NO
       COUNT, which is the honest outcome for Kansas in this pass. Every other state in
       group midwest-b yielded either an agency figure or a statutory enumeration; Kansas
       yielded neither, because its revenue department's site was unreachable and the

data/data/plates/us-ky.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-ky.yml — Kentucky (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group southeast-b).
+# plates/us-ky.yml — Kentucky (the plates spec gate L2, group southeast-b).
 #
 # KENTUCKY IS THE ONLY STATE IN THIS GROUP WHOSE PRIMARY LAW WAS ACTUALLY
 # OBTAINED, and the difference is visible on every line below. The Legislative
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # Tennessee in this group are documented from departmental instruments with the
 # statutory layer marked as a gap, Kentucky's design rule, display rule, historic
 # regime and personalized regime are all quoted from the statute itself, which is
-# a PD edict of government and the top of the PRD-PLATES §4 hierarchy.
+# a PD edict of government and the top of the plates spec §4 hierarchy.
 #
 # THE FINDING WORTH READING THE FILE FOR: Kentucky offers exactly the same pair of
 # standard options as Tennessee — a plain plate and an "In God We Trust" plate,
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # policy, opposite consequence for a parse API, and the two files should be read
 # together.
 #
-# REGEX FORM (PRD-PLATES §2.6): the current Kentucky serial is printed WITHOUT a
+# REGEX FORM (the plates spec §2.6): the current Kentucky serial is printed WITHOUT a
 # separator — the base was redesigned in 2020 so that, in a locator's words, the
 # "serial is not separated in middle, as with past designs". The regexes below
 # therefore spell no separator in the standard series, and spell an optional one
@@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ statute_ip_note: >-
   regulation pages carry "Copyright © 2024 Kentucky Legislative Research
   Commission - All rights reserved". That notice cannot reach the statutory text
   itself — edicts of government are uncopyrightable at every level of US law, which
-  is exactly why PRD-PLATES §4 tells us to prefer the statute over the brochure —
+  is exactly why the plates spec §4 tells us to prefer the statute over the brochure —
   but it is a real, fetched, affirmative copyright assertion by a Kentucky state
   body over the material it publishes, and it is carried into `artwork_risk` below
   as the only direct Kentucky IP evidence obtained.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched-leaning-asserted
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     the wordmark — are the only exposure, and they are the ones §3 renders as
     placeholders anyway.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies. The "state icon screened on the left"
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies. The "state icon screened on the left"
     of the current base renders as `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`.
     Note that KRS 186.240(1)(d) prescribes the plate's TEXTUAL content in detail —
     identifier, jurisdiction indication, optional slogans, county, optional religious
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=58177  # KRS 186.240(1)(d) effective July 15, 2026: the registration identifier, the jurisdiction indication, the cabinet's slogan discretion ('Bluegrass State' / 'United We Stand, Divided We Fall'), the county requirement for noncommercial standard plates, and the registrant's In God We Trust discretion; (2)-(3) the reflectorization mandate, the fifty-cent fee, the non-reverting program fund and the cabinet's discretionary replacement schedule"
       - "https://drive.ky.gov/Vehicles/Pages/License-Plates.aspx  # KYTC: 'Standard-issue passenger plates (Bluegrass State and In God We Trust)'; the July 19, 2023 elimination of I, Q and U and the statement that this matches the visibility rules ALREADY IN PLACE FOR STANDARD PLATES"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Kentucky  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the September 2020 base start, the flat digital printing, the white/light-blue gradient and dark blue serial, the state icon at left, the county sticker, the unseparated serial, the ABC123 then A1B234 arrangements with their reported ranges, Roederer Correctional Complex manufacture, and the 1927 first-county-name claim. None asserted as sourced"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Kentucky  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the September 2020 base start, the flat digital printing, the white/light-blue gradient and dark blue serial, the state icon at left, the county sticker, the unseparated serial, the ABC123 then A1B234 arrangements with their reported ranges, Roederer Correctional Complex manufacture, and the 1927 first-county-name claim. None asserted as sourced"
     notes: >-
       KENTUCKY STANDARD ISSUE, CURRENT BASE. THE ALPHABET IS BETTER SOURCED THAN THE
       DATE, which is the reverse of the usual US situation and is worth saying out
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ series:
       September 21, 2020 and no KYTC or gubernatorial announcement of the base was
       located. A verifier should look for the 2020 announcement; if the true date
       moves within 2020 the id survives unchanged, and if it moves out of 2020 the id
-      becomes a former-id alias under the PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6 contract.
+      becomes a former-id alias under the quality spec I-5/I-6 contract.
       WHY ONE SERIES ACROSS TWO ARRANGEMENTS: ABC123 ran until the three-letter space
       neared exhaustion around CBZ999 and A1B234 took over in August 2021 on the same
       base with the same design and the same alphabet. That is a counter rolling over,
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ series:
       - "https://drive.ky.gov/Vehicles/Pages/License-Plates.aspx  # KYTC lists 'Bluegrass State and In God We Trust' as the two standard-issue passenger plates, both personalizable"
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Kentucky  # LOCATOR ONLY: the option has run since January 2011 on the prior base and since September 2020 on this one; serials 'Taken from standard allocation'; the lowered county-sticker box; no-cost"
     notes: >-
-      THE KENTUCKY IN GOD WE TRUST OPTION. Its own series under PRD-PLATES §2.3 on the
+      THE KENTUCKY IN GOD WE TRUST OPTION. Its own series under the plates spec §2.3 on the
       DESIGN test alone — the format is identical and the period is identical, but the
       plate carries a legend the other does not, and a §2.3 variant becomes its own
       series if format OR design OR period differs.
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ series:
           carries a `regex_strict` — the only other one in this group besides its
           standard-plate siblings.
       separator_note: >-
-        A SANCTIONED SEPARATOR-ONLY CLASS (PRD-PLATES §2.8), and here it is sourced
+        A SANCTIONED SEPARATOR-ONLY CLASS (the plates spec §2.8), and here it is sourced
         rather than inferred. The cabinet says the requested combination may include "a
         space or dash" ON TOP OF the six characters, so the separator is genuinely
         optional, genuinely either glyph, and genuinely not part of the six-character
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ series:
       regulates plate ADMINISTRATION exhaustively and plate TYPOGRAPHY not at all.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-ky-specialty-index
     class: specialty

data/data/plates/us-la.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-la.yml — Louisiana (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group: southcentral).
+# plates/us-la.yml — Louisiana (the plates spec gate L2, group: southcentral).
 #
 # THE LOUISIANA FIND, and it is the best one in the southcentral group: the
 # Office of Motor Vehicles publishes its ENTIRE POLICY MANUAL, per-policy, as
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ policy_manual:
   why_it_matters: "each policy states its authorising R.S. sections, an Effective Date and a Revised Date. Effective dates in Section 5 run from 1973 to 2025, so the manual is also a rough chronology of Louisiana plate policy."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: copyright-asserted-by-agency
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     as claimed, render nothing derived from an LADPS image, and rely only on
     facts and on the policy manual's TEXTUAL descriptions, which is what this
     file does throughout.
-  practical_effect: "PRD-PLATES §3's neutral-placeholder default is mandatory. Note the useful asymmetry: Policy 45.00 describes the plate in WORDS ('blue letters and numbers on a white background with the word \"Louisiana\" appearing in script at the top center of the plate in the color of red'). A description of a design is a fact; a copy of a design is not. Every colour and legend claim below is taken from the words, never from an image."
+  practical_effect: "The plates spec §3's neutral-placeholder default is mandatory. Note the useful asymmetry: Policy 45.00 describes the plate in WORDS ('blue letters and numbers on a white background with the word \"Louisiana\" appearing in script at the top center of the plate in the color of red'). A description of a design is a fact; a copy of a design is not. Every colour and legend claim below is taken from the words, never from an image."
   emblem_rule: >-
     Placeholder. The pelican — Louisiana's state bird and the central element of
     the state's seal and flag — has appeared on Louisiana bases repeatedly, and
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     and are UNRESEARCHED for Louisiana (recorded gap).
   sources:
     - "https://expresslane.la.gov/omv/terms-of-use/  # LADPS Terms of Use Policy: the copyright and proprietary-rights assertion, quoted verbatim above, and the LADPS name/initials passing-off clause"
-    - "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; Louisiana is not among the states with a favourable rule"
+    - "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; Louisiana is not among the states with a favourable rule"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The US standards chain — recorded once per US file (see us-fl.yml).
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ us_standards:
     replacement_cycle: "AAMVA §1.1 recommends a rolling or full replacement cycle 'not to exceed 7 to 10 years'. LOUISIANA HAS NO REPLACEMENT CYCLE BUT HAS A REGISTRATION PERIOD: Policy 38.00 states 'Private auto license plates are issued for a two (2) year registration period' and 'All automobile plates will be valid for two (2) years ONLY.' Plates are also NOT TRANSFERABLE between owners — 'New metal plates are issued when the vehicle is transferred' — so Louisiana replaces on transfer rather than on a clock."
     source: "https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf"
   aamva_relationship_note: "Louisiana OMV is an active AAMVA member and won three 2026 AAMVA awards, which is worth noting only because it makes the voluntary-adoption chain concrete: the state whose plates AAMVA does not govern is the same state that competes in AAMVA's awards programme."
-  folklore_caution: "The '1956 AMA standardization agreement' remains COMMONLY REPEATED, UNSOURCED (PRD-PLATES §4). No Louisiana instrument obtained states plate dimensions at all."
+  folklore_caution: "The '1956 AMA standardization agreement' remains COMMONLY REPEATED, UNSOURCED (the plates spec §4). No Louisiana instrument obtained states plate dimensions at all."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Display rules — from the OMV Policy Manual, which is the registrar's own
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ series:
         DELIBERATELY. Louisiana changed base graphics inside this one serial
         arrangement, and none of those changes could be tied to a Louisiana
         instrument in this pass. Minting dated series ids on unsourced design
-        boundaries would mean aliasing them later under the PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6
+        boundaries would mean aliasing them later under the quality spec I-5/I-6
         id contract; recording them as dated design variants under one
         format-defined series costs nothing and claims nothing false. Compare
         us-fl-standard, whose id is undated for exactly the same reason.
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ series:
       - "https://public.powerdms.com/ladpsc/documents/366665  # Louisiana OMV Policy 21.00, 'Personalized Prestige License Plates' (revised 2025-02-14), authority R.S. 47:462 and 47:463.2 — the prohibition on vanity plates containing 'a regular plate sequence (i.e. three numbers followed by three alpha or three alpha followed by three numbers)', which is the department's own statement of the regular passenger arrangement"
       - "https://public.powerdms.com/ladpsc/documents/370991  # Louisiana OMV Policy 45.00, 'Uniform License Plates', authority R.S. 47:463(3) and Senate Concurrent Resolution 196 — the Category #1 colour scheme: blue letters and numbers on white, 'Louisiana' in red script at top centre, 'Sportsman's Paradise' in blue block letters at bottom"
       - "https://public.powerdms.com/ladpsc/documents/366583  # Louisiana OMV Policy 38.00, 'Automobile License Plates', authority R.S. 47:463(A) — eligibility for the passenger class, the two-year registration period, non-transferability between owners, and the ad valorem licence tax"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Louisiana  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the May 2016 change from ABC 123 to 123 ABC, the 100 AAA to 799 HUK and 100 HUL to 371 JCY ranges, the 2005-2011 and reported 2025 base designs, the Q/U exclusions, and the 1989-1993 State Police troop-area letter. None asserted as sourced."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Louisiana  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the May 2016 change from ABC 123 to 123 ABC, the 100 AAA to 799 HUK and 100 HUL to 371 JCY ranges, the 2005-2011 and reported 2025 base designs, the Q/U exclusions, and the 1989-1993 State Police troop-area letter. None asserted as sourced."
     notes: >-
       LOUISIANA CURRENT ISSUE, KEYED TO THE FORMAT. The choice worth defending
       explicitly: this series starts in 2016 at the arrangement change, not in
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ series:
       scheme is fully sourced and the serial arrangement is not, so the scheme is
       recorded as data and the arrangement as a flagged guess. The 2002 end of
       apportioned trailer plates is exactly the kind of dated discontinuation
-      PRD-PLATES's `ended: true` semantics exist for, and is recorded here rather
+      the plates spec's `ended: true` semantics exist for, and is recorded here rather
       than minted as a series because no format for the dead class was obtained.
 
   # =========================================================================
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ series:
         WORTH A MAINTAINER DECISION. Louisiana permits a hyphen or a period
         INSIDE a personalized configuration and counts it against the
         seven-character budget, which means the glyph is part of the customer's
-        chosen string rather than a group separator. Under PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 3
+        chosen string rather than a group separator. Under the plates spec §2.6 rule 3
         a jurisdiction that prints a glyph inside a serial is "a schema
         amendment, not a data entry". This is arguably the first such case in the
         dataset — although it applies only to owner-chosen configurations, not to
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ series:
       fee is the state pricing what Delaware lets the market price.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX ONLY, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX ONLY, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-la-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ 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_policies: 187

data/data/plates/us-ma.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-# plates/us-ma.yml — Massachusetts (PRD-PLATES gate L2, northeast group).
+# plates/us-ma.yml — Massachusetts (the plates spec gate L2, northeast group).
 #
 # THE ONE FACT THAT MAKES MASSACHUSETTS DIFFERENT FROM EVERY OTHER STATE IN THIS
 # GROUP: the LAST DIGIT OF THE SERIAL ENCODES THE MONTH THE REGISTRATION EXPIRES
 # — 1 through 9 for January through September, 0 for October. That is a TIME
 # DECODE inside a US plate serial, the temporal cousin of Germany's district
 # prefix and the Netherlands' sidecode, and it is exactly the kind of thing
-# PRD-PLATES §2.4 exists to model. It is also why Massachusetts runs several
+# the plates spec §2.4 exists to model. It is also why Massachusetts runs several
 # serial arrangements CONCURRENTLY rather than sequentially: each month's
 # allocation exhausts at its own rate, so October (digit 0) has needed its own
 # formats since 2018 while January-September were still inside 1ABC 2n. A
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   Edition currency is a recorded gap.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: favourable-with-a-stated-limit
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     extrapolation, not a finding. The template also excludes municipal records
     (M.G.L. c.66 §7). Recorded as favourable-but-not-adjudicated.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies. The current standard base carries
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies. The current standard base carries
     no state seal, but several specialty designs do, and Massachusetts
     state-seal misuse protection independent of copyright is unresearched
     (recorded gap — the same gap the FL pilot recorded, and the largest
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Chapter90/Section2  # M.G.L. c.90 §2: the statutory reflectorization duty delegated to the registrar; the SIX-character cap and no-duplication rule on distinctive initial (vanity) plates; the Cape and Islands statutory design. Read via the 2014-08-01 Wayback capture (live site unreachable this pass)"
       - "https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Chapter90/Section6  # §6: display, the sixty-foot rear illumination rule"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Massachusetts  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the 1ABC 2n current arrangement, the month-of-expiration final digit, the Q/U exclusion and I/O skipped blocks, the 1987 first issue for vanity/non-passenger and 1993 adoption as the standard passenger base, the concurrent October formats"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Massachusetts  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the 1ABC 2n current arrangement, the month-of-expiration final digit, the Q/U exclusion and I/O skipped blocks, the 1987 first issue for vanity/non-passenger and 1993 adoption as the standard passenger base, the concurrent October formats"
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/20140704083521/http://www.massrmv.com/Portals/30/docs/manuals/passenger_plates_manual_public.pdf  # RMV Passenger Plates Booklet, July 2014 — the RMV's OWN catalogue; used here for the plate-type inventory, not for serial grammar"
     notes: >-
       MASSACHUSETTS STANDARD ISSUE, "Spirit of America" base. PERIOD: 1993 is the
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ series:
       pattern: "999 LLL"
       regex: '\A\d{3} ?[A-Z]{3}\z'
       charset: { notes: "reported 100·AAA to 999·VZZ; the same final-digit month code applies, and November and December expirations were discontinued during this base's life except on non-passenger and older red-on-white plates. An all-numeric 123·456 arrangement ran concurrently on this base from 1983, generally reissuing the serials of holders of the same numbers on the red-on-white base" }
-      separator_note: "printed with a raised dot (123·ABC); spelled U+0020 here per PRD-PLATES §2.6, as for every dot-separated series in this dataset"
+      separator_note: "printed with a raised dot (123·ABC); spelled U+0020 here per the plates spec §2.6, as for every dot-separated series in this dataset"
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ series:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
       legend_bottom: "TRAILER"
-      legend_note: "embossed 'TRAILER' in place of the slogan on the Spirit base — a design difference, hence its own series under PRD-PLATES §2.3"
+      legend_note: "embossed 'TRAILER' in place of the slogan on the Spirit base — a design difference, hence its own series under the plates spec §2.3"
     registration_period: "all Massachusetts trailer plates expire on 30 NOVEMBER, a fixed statewide date rather than a per-registrant month — which is why the trailer series carries no month code in its serial and the passenger series does"
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Massachusetts  # LOCATOR ONLY: the A12·345 commercial arrangement, the four dated design variants, the reported serial ranges, and the 31 December fixed expiry"
     notes: >-
       COMMERCIAL. Recorded as class `standard` because _meta/classes.yml has no
-      `commercial` value and the PRD's `dealer` definition (bound to a business,
+      `commercial` value and the spec's `dealer` definition (bound to a business,
       not a vehicle) does not fit — a Massachusetts commercial plate is bound to
       the vehicle in the ordinary way. The legend carries the meaning, exactly as
       the FL pilot recorded for its Wrecker and Restricted series. CLASS-VOCABULARY
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ series:
       and no competing dataset records it.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.5).
+  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (the plates spec §2.5).
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-ma-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ 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_dated: 50

data/data/plates/us-md.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-md.yml — Maryland (PRD-PLATES gate L2, mid-Atlantic group).
+# plates/us-md.yml — Maryland (the plates spec gate L2, mid-Atlantic group).
 #
 # MARYLAND IS THE BEST-LEGISLATED PLATE IN THIS GROUP. Where New York delegates
 # everything and Pennsylvania delegates almost everything, Md. Code, Transp.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 # ACCESS NOTE, STATED UP FRONT: mva.maryland.gov returned HTTP 403 to every
 # request in this pass, including with a browser user agent. Everything below
 # therefore comes from the MARYLAND GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S OWN STATUTE SERVICE — the
-# better source under PRD-PLATES §4 anyway (edicts of government beat brochures)
+# better source under the plates spec §4 anyway (edicts of government beat brochures)
 # — and the agency-only facts, above all the specialty-plate catalogue, are
 # recorded as gaps rather than sourced from elsewhere.
 #
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "Annotated Code of Maryland, Transportation Article, Title 13 (Vehicle Laws - Certificates of Title and Registration of Vehicles), as served by mgaleg.maryland.gov and read 2026-08-02."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     FLAG — the Calvert and Crossland quarterings — which is not a decorative
     graphic but the state's heraldic device. State flags and seals carry
     protection INDEPENDENT of copyright under misuse statutes, exactly as
-    PRD-PLATES §4.5 flags, and that question is unresearched here as it is
+    the plates spec §4.5 flags, and that question is unresearched here as it is
     everywhere. A neutral placeholder in the flag slot is the only defensible
     v1 render.
   photograph_caution: "Standard §4 reading: Commons photographs carry the photographer's licence on the photograph and say nothing about the design. No Maryland image was fetched in this pass — MVA refused every request."
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gtr&section=13-410&enactments=false  # § 13-410(b) the plate must display the registration number and the name of Maryland; the number 'may consist of letters, numerals, or both'; (c) the county sticker; (d) the five-year service life"
       - "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gtr&section=13-411&enactments=false  # § 13-411 display: front and rear for this class of vehicle"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Maryland  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): 'Maryland Proud' from 26 September 2016, 1AB2345 from 8CN0000 to 1HA3202 (7 March 2026), black embossed serial on reflective white with the state flag screened in the bottom half and 'Maryland' screened in red at the top"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Maryland  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): 'Maryland Proud' from 26 September 2016, 1AB2345 from 8CN0000 to 1HA3202 (7 March 2026), black embossed serial on reflective white with the state flag screened in the bottom half and 'Maryland' screened in red at the top"
     notes: >-
       MARYLAND PROUD (2016-) — THE CURRENT STANDARD ISSUE. The statute is strong
       and the DESIGN HISTORY is weak, and the file says so: everything about the
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ series:
       the owner, the opposite of Delaware's tradeable low numbers.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Statute only; the
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5. Statute only; the
   # agency catalogue was unreachable.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-md-specialty-index
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ series:
           reveal the exceptions is behind the 403.
     design:
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      note: "one design per approved organisation; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per approved organisation; 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

data/data/plates/us-me.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-me.yml — Maine (PRD-PLATES gate L2, northeast group).
+# plates/us-me.yml — Maine (the plates spec gate L2, northeast group).
 #
 # MAINE IS THE BEST-SOURCED CURRENT BASE IN THIS GROUP AND POSSIBLY IN THE US.
 # Where Florida's colours had to be recorded `observed` because Chapter 320 says
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@
 # of the plate; or (2) Blue identification numbers and letters with no other
 # features." Two statutory design variants, named in law, plus statutory
 # character heights and statutory legends. That is an EDICT OF GOVERNMENT
-# describing a plate design — public domain at every level (PRD-PLATES §4) — and
+# describing a plate design — public domain at every level (the plates spec §4) — and
 # it is why the renderer can build Maine from law rather than from a photograph.
 #
 # IT ALSO PRODUCES THIS FILE'S ONE REAL SOURCE CONFLICT, recorded and not
-# averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3): the STATUTE says "buff neutral shaded background";
+# averaged (the plates spec §5.3): the STATUTE says "buff neutral shaded background";
 # every secondary description of the plates actually issued from 1 May 2025 says
 # REFLECTIVE WHITE with a dark blue serial, "MAINE" in dark green at top and
 # "VACATIONLAND" in dark green at bottom. Both are recorded below. Nobody should
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 # of State "shall begin issuing the new plates NO LATER THAN MAY 1, 2025" and
 # "shall complete the issuance of new plates BEFORE JULY 31, 2026". So Maine has
 # a legislated rollout window — announced/first-issue/full-coverage in one
-# subsection — which is exactly the `period.rollout:` shape PRD-PLATES §2.2
+# subsection — which is exactly the `period.rollout:` shape the plates spec §2.2
 # anticipated for Mercosur and had not yet needed in the US.
 jurisdiction: us-me
 authority:
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   page extracted on 10/20/2025" — the edition read for this pass.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: favourable-on-the-edict-ground-weak-on-the-general-ground
@@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ artwork_risk:
     Render Maine from §451(4-A)'s words. Do NOT rely on {{PD-MEGov}} for
     anything, and do not record Maine as a public-domain state on its strength:
     an untagged assertion on a wiki is not evidence, and treating it as evidence
-    is precisely the laundering PRD-PLATES §4 forbids. Recorded as UNRESEARCHED
+    is precisely the laundering the plates spec §4 forbids. Recorded as UNRESEARCHED
     at the general level with the specific edict ground stated.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies to the PINE TREE and NORTH STAR
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies to the PINE TREE and NORTH STAR
     even here. The 2025 design is reported to pay homage to the Maine state flag
     of 1901-1909, and flag/seal protection independent of copyright is
     unresearched for Maine (recorded gap). Note that the statute describes the
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ series:
           I and O not used; initial letters A-E reserved for optional and certain
           non-passenger types; F-H reserved for the plain statutory variant (see
           us-me-standard-2025-plain); this variant runs from 101 KAA.
-      separator_note: "the group gap is printed as a small raised dot in secondary depictions; spelled U+0020 here because U+00B7 is in the FORGIVING but not the EMITTED set (PRD-PLATES §2.6)"
+      separator_note: "the group gap is printed as a small raised dot in secondary depictions; spelled U+0020 here because U+00B7 is in the FORGIVING but not the EMITTED set (the plates spec §2.6)"
       progression: "101 KAA upward, middle letter first"
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, dimension_note: "OBSERVED — Title 29-A states character heights but no plate size" }
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ series:
           THE STATUTE AND EVERY SECONDARY DESCRIPTION DISAGREE ABOUT THE
           BACKGROUND. Statute: "buff neutral shaded". Secondary: reflective white.
           NO HEX IS RECORDED, because recording one would be choosing a side.
-          PRD-PLATES §5.3: disagreements are recorded, never averaged. Resolving
+          The plates spec §5.3: disagreements are recorded, never averaged. Resolving
           this needs a BMV colour specification, which was not obtained.
       foreground_statutory: "'Blue identification numbers and letters' (§451(4-A)(D)(1)); secondary describes the issued plates as DARK BLUE serial — consistent"
       legend_top: "MAINE"
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/29-A/title29-Asec451.html  # 29-A M.R.S. §451: (1) periodic general issue distinguishable by colour; (1-A) begin no later than 1 May 2025, complete before 31 July 2026; (4-A)(A) 'Maine' >= 3/4 in at top plus year; (4-A)(B) numbers not substantially less than 3 in; (4-A)(C) 'Vacationland' >= 3/4 in at bottom or class codes; (4-A)(D)(1) buff background, distinct border, blue characters, eastern white pine, blue North Star; (4-A)(E) the numbering system is delegated to the Secretary of State; (6) manufacture at the Bolduc Correctional Facility"
       - "https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/29-A/title29-Asec452.html  # §452: display front and rear, the front-only truck tractor rule"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Maine  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the 123·ABC arrangement, the 101·KAA start, the middle-letter-first progression, the I/O exclusion, the A-E and F-H block reservations, the reported reflective-white/dark-blue/dark-green colours that CONFLICT with the statute's 'buff', and the homage to the 1901-1909 state flag"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Maine  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the 123·ABC arrangement, the 101·KAA start, the middle-letter-first progression, the I/O exclusion, the A-E and F-H block reservations, the reported reflective-white/dark-blue/dark-green colours that CONFLICT with the statute's 'buff', and the homage to the 1901-1909 state flag"
     notes: >-
       MAINE 2025 GENERAL ISSUE, PINE TREE VARIANT. This is the only series in the
       northeast group whose START DATE, BACKGROUND, BORDER, CHARACTER COLOUR,
@@ -220,12 +220,12 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       THE PLAIN 2025 VARIANT — its own series and not a sub-entry, because
       §451(4-A)(D) offers (1) and (2) as ALTERNATIVES and the design difference
-      (graphic vs no graphic) is exactly the difference PRD-PLATES §2.3 says makes
+      (graphic vs no graphic) is exactly the difference the plates spec §2.3 says makes
       a series. It also has a distinct serial block (F-H vs K), so the format
       differs in practice as well. WHY THIS MATTERS BEYOND MAINE: a US state
       offering a deliberately graphic-free standard plate alongside a graphic one
       is the render layer's dream case — the emblem-placeholder problem of
-      PRD-PLATES §3 simply does not arise for this variant, and a consumer that
+      the plates spec §3 simply does not arise for this variant, and a consumer that
       needs a guaranteed-clean Maine render should ask for this one.
 
   # =========================================================================
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ series:
       lawfully on the road during the 2025-2026 rollout window that §451(1-A)
       leaves open until 31 July 2026. That overlap is legislated, not accidental:
       Maine law expressly contemplates old and new plates coexisting for fifteen
-      months, which is the `period` overlap PRD-PLATES §2.2 calls legal-iff-noted.
+      months, which is the `period` overlap the plates spec §2.2 calls legal-iff-noted.
       Recorded with `end: 2025` because issuance stopped on 30 April 2025; a
       chickadee plate seen in June 2026 is valid, not expired.
 
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ series:
       pattern: "9L-9999"
       regex: '\A\d[A-Z]-?\d{4}\z'
       charset: { notes: "reported 1A-0001 onward from December 2007; the preceding arrangement on the same base was 123-456 (600-001 to 799-999, July 1999 - December 2007), and before that a plain six-digit 123456 on the lobster base with a vertical 'COM' marker" }
-      separator_note: "Maine's commercial plates print a HYPHEN, which IS in the emitted set — so unlike the passenger series this pattern spells the separator exactly as printed (PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 2)"
+      separator_note: "Maine's commercial plates print a HYPHEN, which IS in the emitted set — so unlike the passenger series this pattern spells the separator exactly as printed (the plates spec §2.6 rule 2)"
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ series:
       leading pair as sequence will sort Maine trailers into nonsense.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.5).
+  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (the plates spec §2.5).
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-me-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ 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_reported: 9

data/data/plates/us-mi.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-mi.yml — Michigan (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group midwest-a).
+# plates/us-mi.yml — Michigan (the plates spec gate L2, group midwest-a).
 #
 # WHAT MICHIGAN CONTRIBUTES THAT NO OTHER STATE IN THIS GROUP DOES: a
 # LEGISLATED PLATE LIFETIME, stated as a prohibition rather than as a schedule.
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 # line and was NOT fetched.
 #
 # NOT HERE, DELIBERATELY: individual specialty/fundraising DESIGNS (L4 per
-# PRD-PLATES §2.5); the MOTORCYCLE series, because no source in this pass gave a
+# the plates spec §2.5); the MOTORCYCLE series, because no source in this pass gave a
 # Michigan motorcycle serial format and a plates file should carry a declared
 # gap rather than a plausible guess (see the dossier); and the personalized
 # series, which is outside the L2 core-class list.
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 257 (Michigan Vehicle Code), 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
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     the ten-year renewal bar are all EDICTS OF GOVERNMENT and public domain at
     every level. The adverse posture bites on the artwork, not the spec.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies. The current base carries the
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies. The current base carries the
     'Pure Michigan' wordmark — which raises a question the copyright analysis does
     not reach: Pure Michigan is the state's TOURISM BRAND, and brand marks carry
     TRADEMARK protection entirely independent of copyright and of any public-
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Michigan  # LOCATOR ONLY: government/municipal serial range 130 X 000 to ~136 X 999 as of January 2026"
     notes: >-
       GOVERNMENT / MUNICIPAL. The statutory fact is the good one: this is a plate
-      class whose VALIDITY IS A CONDITION rather than a date. PRD-PLATES's runs
+      class whose VALIDITY IS A CONDITION rather than a date. The plates spec's runs
       shape handles open-ended periods, but 'ends when worn out' is not a year and
       cannot be made into one — recorded in prose, deliberately, rather than
       forced into `period.end`.
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ series:
       charset: { notes: "fundraising and university plates carry ordinary serials on an alternative design; no distinct grammar was sourced" }
     design:
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      note: "one design per authorising public act; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per authorising public act; 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
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ series:
         describes was NOT located in the section of MCL 257.811e that was read,
         so the '20' is a claim about a statute rather than a quotation from one,
         and a verifier should either find the cap or strike the figure. Per
-        PRD-PLATES §5.3 the discrepancy is recorded, not averaged away.
+        the plates spec §5.3 the discrepancy is recorded, not averaged away.
       official_list_url: "https://www.michigan.gov/sos/vehicle/plates"
       official_list_fetch_status: "BLOCKED — HTTP 403 on every attempt, 2026-08-02"
       statutory_basis: >-
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Michigan  # LOCATOR ONLY: 'State law limits the number of fundraising plates (excluding universities) available at one time to 20, and 14 are currently in production.'"
     notes: >-
       THE MICHIGAN SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry for the whole programme per
-      PRD-PLATES §2.5, with the official count declared a gap and a secondary
+      the plates spec §2.5, with the official count declared a gap and a secondary
       figure carried, flagged, alongside. The durable finding is the mechanism:
       Michigan gates specialty plates through the LEGISLATURE, Illinois through a
       2,000-application petition, Wisconsin through 500 signatures, Ohio through