vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/us-mn.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-mn.yml — Minnesota (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group midwest-b).
+# plates/us-mn.yml — Minnesota (the plates spec gate L2, group midwest-b).
 #
 # MINNESOTA'S STATUTE IS THE MOST PHYSICALLY SPECIFIC IN THIS GROUP AND THE LEAST
 # FORMAT-SPECIFIC. Minn. Stat. § 168.12 subd. 1 will tell you that a plate must be
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #
 #  3. MINNESOTA REGISTERS ROADABLE AIRCRAFT WITH THEIR FAA TAIL NUMBERS.
 #     § 168.12 subd. 1(i), in terms. That is a direct, statutory bridge between
-#     this dataset's road layer and the aircraft layer PRD-PLATES §7 puts at gate
+#     this dataset's road layer and the aircraft layer the plates spec §7 puts at gate
 #     L6, and it is specified below as its own series because it genuinely is one.
 #
 # WHAT THIS FILE COULD NOT GET: Minnesota's serial ARRANGEMENT and its current
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "Minnesota Statutes Chapter 168 (Vehicle Registration, Taxation, Sale), §§ 168.10 and 168.12 as published by the Office of the Revisor of Statutes at revisor.mn.gov. § 168.12 was last amended by 2024 c 104 art 1 s 17, so the design provisions read here are current to the 2024 session."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4. Minnesota is one of
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4. Minnesota is one of
 # only two states in group midwest-b for which ANY evidence exists — and the
 # evidence is that the question is genuinely open.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -84,12 +84,12 @@ artwork_risk:
     the seven-year plate period and the roadable-aircraft rule are all free to use
     whatever the answer on artwork turns out to be.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies to whatever graphic the current Minnesota
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies to whatever graphic the current Minnesota
     base carries — which this pass could not identify, since the DVS site refused every
     request. Render `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`. Minnesota 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): the Minnesota section, which sets out the conflicting 1994 commissioner and 1995 Attorney General statements and quotes Minn. Stat. § 13.03 subd. 5. The conflict is recorded here, not resolved (PRD-PLATES §5.3)"
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the Minnesota section, which sets out the conflicting 1994 commissioner and 1995 Attorney General statements and quotes Minn. Stat. § 13.03 subd. 5. The conflict is recorded here, not resolved (the plates spec §5.3)"
     - "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/13.03  # Minn. Stat. § 13.03 subd. 5, FETCHED AND READ: the software-only copyright authorization and its trade-secret consequence — an edict, PD, and the primary the secondary account turns on"
 
 us_standards:
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ series:
           appear in the statute. Note the striking phrase 'a letter or SIGN with figures':
           Minnesota law contemplates a non-alphanumeric SIGN in a registration number,
           which if ever exercised would be a `never_separator` amendment under
-          PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 3. No such sign is known to be in use.
+          the plates spec §2.6 rule 3. No such sign is known to be in use.
       pattern_note: >-
         REPRESENTATIVE SHAPE ONLY, on the nl-export precedent, AND AN HONEST ADMISSION.
         Neither Minnesota's serial width nor its arrangement was sourced in this pass: the
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ series:
         and narrows it on two counts the round-trippable form cannot carry — the I/O
         exclusion, spelled as the ranges A-H, J-N and P-Z, and the leading-zero prohibition,
         spelled by requiring the first symbol after N to be 1-9. This is a textbook case of
-        why PRD-PLATES §2.7's strict twin exists: the charset restriction is real, sourced
+        why the plates spec §2.7's strict twin exists: the charset restriction is real, sourced
         and unrepresentable in a regex that must round-trip a human pattern.
     design:
       note: "no plate design is prescribed — subd. 1(i) issues a registration NUMBER 'in lieu of plates required under this section', so what is displayed is the aircraft's existing tail number"
@@ -294,10 +294,10 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       ROADABLE AIRCRAFT. This series is small, strange and genuinely valuable to the
       dataset, because it is a STATUTORY BRIDGE between the road-vehicle layer this program
-      is building now and the aircraft layer PRD-PLATES §7 schedules for gate L6: Minnesota
+      is building now and the aircraft layer the plates spec §7 schedules for gate L6: Minnesota
       law says a roadable aircraft's road registration number IS its FAA tail number. Two
       consequences worth carrying forward. First, `categories: [aircraft]` exercises the
-      schema's kind-extensibility exactly as PRD-PLATES §2.2 anticipated, with no schema
+      schema's kind-extensibility exactly as the plates spec §2.2 anticipated, with no schema
       change. Second, this is the only series in group midwest-b whose format is fully
       specified by a fetched primary INCLUDING its charset exclusions, which is why it is
       the only one here carrying a `regex_strict` — and the specification came from the
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ series:
       THE MINNESOTA COLLECTOR FAMILY — Pioneer, Classic Car, Collector and Street Rod —
       modelled as ONE series with four legend variants rather than four series, because
       § 168.10 gives them a single grammar, a single validity rule and a single no-date
-      rule, and PRD-PLATES §2.3 makes a variant its own series only where format OR design
+      rule, and the plates spec §2.3 makes a variant its own series only where format OR design
       OR period differs. Here only the inscription word differs.
       THE FACT WORTH CARRYING FORWARD is the interaction of two provisions: these plates
       bear NO DATE and are valid FOREVER without renewal. A Minnesota collector plate
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ series:
       were not extracted in this pass (recorded gap).
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-mn-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ series:
       regex: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9]){0,6}\z'
       pattern_note: "REPRESENTATIVE SHAPE ONLY; the index stands for many programs whose arrangements are not individually stated and whose common frame was not sourced"
     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
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/168.12  # Minn. Stat. § 168.12 subd. 2: the amateur radio plate and its eligibility and fee conditions, the worked example of a Minnesota special-plate authorization; subd. 1(c)-(d): special plates displacing the 'noncommercial' legend and remaining available to commercial one-ton pickups"
       - "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/168.10  # Minn. Stat. § 168.10: the collector-vehicle plate regimes, which sit alongside the specialty programs and are specified separately above"
     notes: >-
-      THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — present as required by PRD-PLATES §2.5, CARRYING NO
+      THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — present as required by the plates spec §2.5, CARRYING NO
       COUNT. Minnesota and Kansas are the two states in group midwest-b that yielded no
       specialty figure at all, in both cases because the issuing agency's website refused
       automated requests and the statutory enumeration was not completed. The honest record

data/data/plates/us-mo.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-mo.yml — Missouri (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group midwest-b).
+# plates/us-mo.yml — Missouri (the plates spec gate L2, group midwest-b).
 #
 # MISSOURI LEGISLATES ITS SLOGAN AND DELEGATES ITS SERIAL — the opposite split
 # from Kansas next door. RSMo 301.130.1 fixes, in statute, that every set of
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "Missouri Revised Statutes Chapter 301 (Registration and Licensing of Motor Vehicles), § 301.130 as published by the Revisor of Statutes at revisor.mo.gov, effective 28 August 2018 (the section carries 12 histories)"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4. Missouri is one of
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4. Missouri is one of
 # only two states in group midwest-b for which ANY evidence exists.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     read for this pass glosses Missouri as 'Some Missouri departments and commissions may
     hold copyright in their works', citing RSMo 630.095 for the proposition that
     'executive departments may hold copyright for works for hire'.
-    THAT GLOSS OVERSTATES THE STATUTE, and chasing it to the primary is what PRD-PLATES §4
+    THAT GLOSS OVERSTATES THE STATUTE, and chasing it to the primary is what the plates spec §4
     requires: RSMo 630.095 sits in CHAPTER 630, which is the DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH,
     and reads 'Copyrights and trademarks by department. — The department may copyright or
     obtain a trademark for any instructional, training and informational audio-visual
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     made no contrary declaration. Treat plate ARTWORK as protected; treat the statute as
     free.
   folklore_corrected: >-
-    RECORDED AS A DEBUNKING, per PRD-PLATES §9's folklore discipline: the secondary
+    RECORDED AS A DEBUNKING, per the plates spec §9's folklore discipline: the secondary
     summary that 'executive departments may hold copyright' in Missouri is not what the
     cited section says. Anyone extending it to the Department of Revenue would be relying
     on an encyclopedia's paraphrase of a mental-health-department housekeeping provision.
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     class list and the mounting heights are all affirmatively clean regardless of
     Missouri's posture on artwork.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies to the current Missouri base graphic and
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies to the current Missouri base graphic and
     to every collegiate and organizational emblem in the catalogue. The collegiate and
     organizational marks carry an ADDITIONAL layer beyond state copyright: they are
     third-party university and charity marks, plausibly trademarked and licensed to the
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     Missouri state-seal misuse statutes are unresearched.
   sources:
     - "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=630.095  # RSMo 630.095, fetched and read: 'Copyrights and trademarks by department' — a Department of Mental Health provision covering instructional, training and informational materials. The primary that corrects the secondary gloss"
-    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the Missouri section, whose paraphrase of RSMo 630.095 was chased to the primary above and found to overstate it. Also cites RSMo 8.007 (State Capitol Commission)"
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the Missouri section, whose paraphrase of RSMo 630.095 was chased to the primary above and found to overstate it. Also cites RSMo 8.007 (State Capitol Commission)"
 
 us_standards:
   no_federal_mandate: true
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ series:
         for members of the National Guard will have the "NATIONAL GUARD" wording in
         preference to the words "SHOW-ME STATE".' Those two displacements are broken out as
         their own series below, because a mandated legend difference is a design difference
-        under PRD-PLATES §2.3.
+        under the plates spec §2.3.
       expiration_display: "RSMo 301.130.1: the plate bears 'the month and year in which the registration shall expire' — Missouri prints the expiry on the PLATE, not only on a sticker"
       material_and_finish: "RSMo 301.130.1: 'The plates shall also contain fully reflective material with a common color scheme and design for each type of license plate issued pursuant to this chapter.'"
       aesthetic_requirement: >-
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ series:
 
   # =========================================================================
   # THE TWO STATUTORY LEGEND DISPLACEMENTS. RSMo 301.130.1 names both in one
-  # sentence, so each is its own series under PRD-PLATES §2.3.
+  # sentence, so each is its own series under the plates spec §2.3.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-mo-disabled-veteran
     class: standard
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ series:
       - "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=301.130  # RSMo 301.130.1: the DISABLED VETERAN legend displacing SHOW-ME STATE for qualified disabled veterans"
     notes: >-
       DISABLED VETERAN PLATES. Its own series rather than a variant because the statute
-      mandates a legend difference in terms, which PRD-PLATES §2.3 treats as a design
+      mandates a legend difference in terms, which the plates spec §2.3 treats as a design
       difference and therefore a series. CLASS CAVEAT: recorded as `standard` because
       _meta/classes.yml has no veteran or disability class and this is an ordinary
       registration with a mandated legend, not a separate issuance regime — the same
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ series:
       therefore not recorded.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Count and links only.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5. Count and links only.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-mo-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ series:
       charset: { max_characters: 6, notes: "the six-character frame is uniform across the whole catalogue — specialty designs carry ordinary serials inside the same frame as the standard series" }
       pattern_note: "REPRESENTATIVE SHAPE ONLY; the index stands for 156 non-standard designs whose arrangements are not individually stated"
     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_total: 163
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ series:
         specialty-plate count anywhere this pass could reach, so there is no agency FIGURE
         to reconcile the enumeration against — the number above is what the agency's system
         contained when read, not what the agency says it offers. Recorded as such rather
-        than promoted to an official figure (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+        than promoted to an official figure (the plates spec §5.3).
       official_list_url: "https://dor.mo.gov/motor-vehicle/plates/personalized-specialty.html"
       official_preview_url: "https://dor.mo.gov/motor-vehicle/plates/personalized-specialty.html#preview"
       preview_data_url: "https://dor.mo.gov/js/platescript.js"
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ series:
       - "https://dor.mo.gov/motor-vehicle/plates/personalized-specialty.html  # the DOR's Personalized and Specialty License Plates page, which the preview tool and its four design categories sit behind"
     notes: >-
       THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry standing for the whole program, per
-      PRD-PLATES §2.5, with no individual designs. Missouri's index is unusual in this
+      the plates spec §2.5, with no individual designs. Missouri's index is unusual in this
       group for being derived from a MACHINE-READABLE agency catalogue rather than from a
       brochure or a statutory enumeration, which makes the count reproducible and the
       per-design character limits sourced. The honest weakness, recorded in

data/data/plates/us-mp.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-mp.yml — Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (PRD-PLATES L2).
+# plates/us-mp.yml — Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (the plates spec L2).
 #
 # THE CNMI'S VEHICLE CODE IS REACHABLE AND WELL-STRUCTURED: Title 9 of the
 # Commonwealth Code, Division 2 ("Registration and Licenses"), served
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # standard plate is the kind of thing that only happens if you read the statute
 # rather than the brochure.
 #
-# WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT HERE (PRD-PLATES §2.5): individual specialty DESIGNS.
+# WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT HERE (the plates spec §2.5): individual specialty DESIGNS.
 jurisdiction: us-mp
 authority:
   name: CNMI Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Department of Public Safety
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ authority_url_note: >-
   file. Recorded as a dead end, not 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
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     ({{PD-US-GovEdict}}), so 9 CMC — the source of every factual claim in this
     file, including the HAFA ADAI legend — is unambiguously free to use.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies to the CNMI flag, the latte stone
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies to the CNMI flag, the latte stone
     and the Commonwealth seal. Render `emblem: {present: true, rendered:
     placeholder}`. The HAFA ADAI legend is TEXT, is stated in an edict, and is a
     fact rather than artwork — it may be set in a substitute typeface without
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ series:
         while "reflective white" maps to #FFFFFF without invention, "dark blue"
         does not map to any particular hex — assigning one would be manufacturing a
         colour value out of an adjective. The foreground is therefore left absent
-        with its description recorded, per PRD-PLATES §9's folklore discipline.
+        with its description recorded, per the plates spec §9's folklore discipline.
       foreground_description: "dark blue, embossed on the older base and surface-printed on the current one (locator-grade)"
       legend_top: "COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS"
       legend_slogan: "HAFA ADAI"
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ series:
       - "https://cnmilaw.org/pdf/cmc_section/T9/2106.pdf  # § 2106: the plate shows the registration number AND YEAR; front and rear at the factory-designated position; legible at 50 feet; no unofficial plates. Plus the PL 14-18 (July 12, 2004) legislative findings recording that BMV already issued TWO plates before 2004"
       - "https://cnmilaw.org/pdf/cmc_section/T9/2116.pdf  # § 2116(c)(1): 'Below the line HAFA ADAI...' — the statutory confirmation of the standard plate's slogan line; and § 2116(c) 'the same standard size and shape as regular passenger vehicle license plates'"
       - "https://cnmilaw.org/pdf/cmc_section/T9/2101.pdf  # § 2101: the registration application, the lawful-ownership and FMVSS-compliance evidence, and the § 2101(d) requirement that liability insurance expire in the same month as the registration"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the ABC 123 arrangement since 1989, the reported 1989-2005 and 2005-present base generations and their serial blocks, the dark-blue-on-reflective-white description, the embossed-to-surface-printed change, and the mounting-hole arrangement"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the ABC 123 arrangement since 1989, the reported 1989-2005 and 2005-present base generations and their serial blocks, the dark-blue-on-reflective-white description, the embossed-to-surface-printed change, and the mounting-hole arrangement"
       - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Northern_Marianas/cnmiy2k.html  # CORROBORATION ONLY: dated photographs of CNMI plates with July 2025, March 2020, June 2013, March 2009, 2005, 2004, 2000 and 1999 expirations, which is how the per-month validation practice was confirmed. No licence statement; no image or text copied"
       - "http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/PA_NMAR.html  # CORROBORATION + GAP-FINDER: an independent CNMI page noting historical variants — plates 'with 19 embossed after the registration', the embossed 19 removed for five-digit registrations, and one plate 'Originally a government plate, repurposed and reissued as general issue DUE TO SHORTAGE'. The shortage note is the useful one: it is direct evidence that CNMI government and general serial namespaces are not hermetically separated"
     notes: >-
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ series:
       figure is left in the locator where it belongs. The reported 2005 base change
       is NOT minted as a boundary — it is a surface-printing-versus-embossing change
       with no format consequence and no primary behind it, exactly the kind of
-      folklore boundary PRD-PLATES §9 warns against dating. THE ENTRY'S REAL VALUE
+      folklore boundary the plates spec §9 warns against dating. THE ENTRY'S REAL VALUE
       is the HAFA ADAI legend sourced to an edict, and the worldlicenseplates
       shortage finding, which tells any future decode effort that CNMI government
       plates have at least once been recycled into general issue.
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ series:
       text as compiled therefore appears to have lost the year-number exemption and
       inverted the distinguishing-mark duty. This is flagged as a probable
       compilation or drafting defect and is NOT relied upon in either direction;
-      PRD-PLATES §5.3 says record disagreements rather than average them, and the
+      the plates spec §5.3 says record disagreements rather than average them, and the
       same discipline applies to a text that disagrees with itself.
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ series:
       - "https://cnmilaw.org/pdf/cmc_section/T9/2116.pdf  # § 2116 (PL 14-16 § 3; (d) amended PL 18-22 § 2, Oct. 8 2013; (g)-(h) enacted PL 19-26 § 2, Dec. 14 2015; amended PL 20-37 § 2, Jan. 18 2018; (a) and (b)(1) amended PL 24-23 § 2, Mar. 11 2026): the veteran/disabled-veteran definitions and proofs, the HAFA ADAI-relative layout, the two ink colours, the branch-code-plus-sequence serial with its three worked examples, the accessibility symbol, the 25%/100% fee rules, the multi-vehicle and non-transferability rules, and the survivor memorial provision"
     notes: >-
       CNMI VETERAN AND DISABLED VETERAN PLATES. SPECCED SEPARATELY FROM THE
-      SPECIALTY INDEX, and deliberately so: PRD-PLATES §2.5 excludes individual
+      SPECIALTY INDEX, and deliberately so: The plates spec §2.5 excludes individual
       specialty DESIGNS from L2, but this series carries a FORMAT — a real,
       statutory, alpha-numeric grammar with worked examples — and a format is
       exactly what the dataset exists to hold. PERIOD CAVEAT, STATED PLAINLY:
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ series:
       civilian plate recognising prior service.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — INDEX ONLY, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # SPECIALTY — INDEX ONLY, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-mp-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ series:
       charset: { notes: "the one CNMI specialty grammar that IS stated — the veteran branch-code format — is specced at us-mp-veteran; nothing is stated for the rest" }
       pattern_note: "illustrative only — this is an INDEX entry, not a spec"
     design:
-      plate: { note: "one design per programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here" }
+      plate: { note: "one design per 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: 3
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ series:
       - "https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/16gc007_0.pdf  # Guam 16 GCA § 7120.3, cited as the evident source text for the CNMI gold-star provision — the common-ancestry finding recorded above"
     notes: >-
       THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry standing for the whole programme, per
-      PRD-PLATES §2.5. TWO THINGS WORTH CARRYING FORWARD. First, THREE PROGRAMMES
+      the plates spec §2.5. TWO THINGS WORTH CARRYING FORWARD. First, THREE PROGRAMMES
       IS THE WHOLE STATUTORY CATALOGUE, which makes the CNMI the cleanest specialty
       index in the dataset and a useful counterexample to the assumption that every
       US jurisdiction runs a sprawling optional-plate market. Second, THE

data/data/plates/us-ms.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-ms.yml — Mississippi (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group southeast-b).
+# plates/us-ms.yml — Mississippi (the plates spec gate L2, group southeast-b).
 #
 # WHY MISSISSIPPI IS THE MOST PERIOD-DISCIPLINED STATE IN THIS GROUP, and maybe
 # in the dataset: Mississippi does not have a redesign HABIT, it has a redesign
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # window itself. That is a genuinely rare artefact and it is the spine of this
 # file.
 #
-# SOURCING RULE APPLIED HERE, AND ITS LIMIT: PRD-PLATES §4 prefers the statute
+# SOURCING RULE APPLIED HERE, AND ITS LIMIT: The plates spec §4 prefers the statute
 # over the agency page. The Mississippi Code of 1972 is published exclusively
 # through a LexisNexis portal that serves a JavaScript shell, and Justia,
 # FindLaw and Casetext all refuse a plain fetch (403/410). But Mississippi's DOR
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   the administering agency's own current quotation.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: asserted-weak
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     design raises the separate question of what was assigned and on what terms.
     Unresearched, and flagged rather than waved through.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies. Two emblems are in scope and they
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies. Two emblems are in scope and they
     are different problems. The MAGNOLIA BLOSSOM on the current base renders as
     `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`. The STATE SEAL on the
     2019-2023 base is worse: state seals carry protection INDEPENDENT of copyright
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://www.dor.ms.gov/motor-vehicle/available-license-plates  # Mississippi DOR: the '2024-2029 Series' label on the Standard Passenger Vehicle License Plate; the verbatim quotation of Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-31(1) and its five-year tag, License Tag Commission approval and exclusion list; the '2024 Standard Passenger Plate' design image"
       - "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 range Mississippi's legislated five years sits below"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Mississippi  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): January 2024 start, the ABC 123 arrangement, the magnolia-on-blue-circle separator, embossed dark blue on white, 12x6 in aluminium, Waldale manufacture, county-name legend embossed at bottom, block-by-county issuance, and the designer attribution. None asserted as sourced"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Mississippi  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): January 2024 start, the ABC 123 arrangement, the magnolia-on-blue-circle separator, embossed dark blue on white, 12x6 in aluminium, Waldale manufacture, county-name legend embossed at bottom, block-by-county issuance, and the designer attribution. None asserted as sourced"
     notes: >-
       MISSISSIPPI STANDARD ISSUE, 2024-2029 SERIES. THE PERIOD IS THE STRONGEST
       CLAIM IN THIS ENTRY, which inverts the usual shape of a US plate record and is
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ series:
         second — which means a Mississippi serial's SHAPE alone distinguishes a
         blackout plate from a standard one. That is a free discriminator for a parse
         API and it is why this is its own series rather than a colour variant: under
-        PRD-PLATES §2.3 a variant becomes its own series if format OR design OR
+        the plates spec §2.3 a variant becomes its own series if format OR design OR
         period differs, and here both format and design differ.
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ series:
       rather than resolves: a locator dates the blackout option's introduction to July
       2022, while the DOR labels the plate now in issue as 2024-2029. Both can be
       true — an option introduced in 2022 on the previous base and re-cut onto the
-      2024 base — and PRD-PLATES §5.3 forbids averaging them. The 2024 start is taken
+      2024 base — and the plates spec §5.3 forbids averaging them. The 2024 start is taken
       because it is the agency's own label for the plate the agency is issuing; the
       2022 introduction is recorded here and nowhere else.
 
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ series:
       dimensions.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-ms-specialty-index
     class: specialty

data/data/plates/us-mt.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-mt.yml — Montana (PRD-PLATES gate L2, northwest group).
+# plates/us-mt.yml — Montana (the plates spec gate L2, northwest group).
 #
 # MONTANA IS THE BEST-SOURCED US STATE IN THIS GROUP, AND IT IS NOT CLOSE.
 # MCA 61-3-332 is a single section that legislates, in terms: the plate
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # frozen in law ever since and now wildly out of date (Silver Bow/Butte was
 # Montana's largest county in 1930 and is nowhere near it today). A Montana
 # plate therefore encodes a NINETY-YEAR-OLD CENSUS RANKING, which is precisely
-# the kind of decode fact PRD-PLATES §2.4 exists to carry. The table below is
+# the kind of decode fact the plates spec §2.4 exists to carry. The table below is
 # quoted from the statute, not from a collector site. NOTE THE FOLKLORE LINE
 # CAREFULLY: the statute states the ASSIGNMENT; it does not state the
 # RATIONALE. "Ordered by 1930 population" is commonly repeated and is recorded
@@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ statute_edition: >-
   oversight; see research_notes.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# 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: split-standard-unresearched-specialty-adverse
   basis: >-
     MONTANA SPLITS, AND THE SPLIT IS SOURCED FROM STATUTE RATHER THAN INFERRED.
     (1) THE STANDARD BASE — UNRESEARCHED. Montana appears NOWHERE in the
-    standing per-state copyright survey PRD-PLATES §4 works from, no
+    standing per-state copyright survey the plates spec §4 works from, no
     {{PD-MTGov}} tag exists on Wikimedia Commons, and no copyright notice was
     found anywhere on mt.gov as fetched. So the default applies: a US state's
     works are copyrighted unless that state says otherwise, and Montana has
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     contracts out of liability for them. No clearer legislative admission that
     plate artwork is privately owned was found in any state in this group.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies. Two Montana-specific notes.
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies. Two Montana-specific notes.
     First, the STATE-OUTLINE BORDER required by MCA 61-3-332(4)(a) is a
     geographic outline — a fact, not an authored work — and is the single most
     likely emblem-slot upgrade candidate in this group, but it is not upgraded
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ series:
       separator_note: >-
         MCA 61-3-332(5) requires "a separation mark" and DOES NOT NAME A
         GLYPH. That is a genuine gap in the authority's own text, and
-        PRD-PLATES §2.8 sanctions exactly this case: the separator position is
+        the plates spec §2.8 sanctions exactly this case: the separator position is
         spelled as the separator-only class `[- ]`, never as a bare literal,
         so a consumer deriving a separator-free twin can detect the position
         mechanically. `pattern` shows the canonical printed form with a
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ series:
       tier_note: >-
         `regex_strict` bounds the leading group to the 56 county numbers MCA
         61-3-332(7) actually assigns — the authority's own alphabet for that
-        position, which is what PRD-PLATES §2.7 reserves the strict twin for.
+        position, which is what the plates spec §2.7 reserves the strict twin for.
         `regex` is the current issued arrangement (county number, separation
         mark, four or five numerals, one trailing letter). `regex_statutory`
         is the outer statutory bound: a county number, a separation mark, and
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ series:
       - "https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0610/chapter_0030/part_0030/section_0320/0610-0030-0030-0320.html  # MCA 61-3-332: (1) separate standard series and the dealer-distinguishability rule; (3)(a)(i) the 1989-or-later design floor; (3)(a)(ii) the 5-year and 10-year replacement clocks; (3)(a)(iii) number retention; (3)(b)-(d) the replacement exemptions; (4)(a) metal, reflectorized, the MONTANA wordmark and the state-outline border; (4)(b)-(d) the two statutory plate sizes; (5) the serial grammar, county-number prefix, separation mark and equal-height rule; (6) the exempt-plate markings; (7) the 56-row county table; (8) special series replace the county number with a distinguishing design"
       - "https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0610/chapter_0030/part_0030/section_0310/0610-0030-0030-0310.html  # MCA 61-3-331: county-treasurer assignment of the distinctive number, and two plates or one"
       - "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 Montana legislated BELOW"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Montana  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the reported current colourway, the buffalo-skull separator device, and the reported per-era serial arrangements. None is asserted as sourced here."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Montana  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the reported current colourway, the buffalo-skull separator device, and the reported per-era serial arrangements. None is asserted as sourced here."
     notes: >-
       MONTANA STANDARD ISSUE. `period.start: 1989` IS A REAL STATUTORY CLAIM,
       not an instrument-edition upper bound: MCA 61-3-332(3)(a)(i) provides
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ series:
           the county-number rule, so a Montana motorcycle plate carries NO
           county prefix — the opposite of what a reader would infer from the
           passenger plate, and the opposite of what secondary sources report.
-          MAJORITY IS NOT AUTHORITY (PRD-PLATES §5.3): the encyclopedia record
+          MAJORITY IS NOT AUTHORITY (the plates spec §5.3): the encyclopedia record
           shows county-prefixed motorcycle serials, the statute exempts them,
           and the statute governs. Beyond the exemption the statute states
           only that a distinctive number "must begin with a number one or with
@@ -482,10 +482,10 @@ series:
       numbering origin, the numbering scope (per county), the prohibition on a
       year number, and the replacement trigger (physical condition only).
       Distinct from us-mt-standard in format, legend, region encoding and
-      replacement rule — four independent grounds under PRD-PLATES §2.3.
+      replacement rule — four independent grounds under the plates spec §2.3.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-mt-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ series:
       - "https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0610/chapter_0030/part_0030/section_0320/0610-0030-0030-0320.html  # MCA 61-3-332(8): each special plate series is separately numbered and the county number is replaced by a series-distinguishing design"
     notes: >-
       THE MONTANA SPECIALTY INDEX — one entry standing for four statutory
-      tiers, which is what PRD-PLATES §2.5 asks for at this gate. Three things
+      tiers, which is what the plates spec §2.5 asks for at this gate. Three things
       worth carrying forward. First, the count is not merely unpublished; MCA
       61-3-474(4) makes the list a RECORDS-REQUEST artefact by design, so the
       honest index value is "unstated and request-only" with the statute

data/data/plates/us-nc.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-nc.yml — North Carolina (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group southeast-a).
+# plates/us-nc.yml — North Carolina (the plates spec gate L2, group southeast-a).
 #
 # THE NORTH CAROLINA FINDING: THE STANDARD PLATE IS A CHOICE OF THREE, AND THE
 # CHOICE IS IN THE STATUTE. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-63(b) gives the owner of a
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # STANDARD SERIES, not one, and they are not variants of each other — they run
 # in DISJOINT SERIAL BLOCKS, which means the plate string itself tells you
 # which design you are looking at. That is a genuinely useful parse signal and
-# it is modelled as three series under PRD-PLATES §2.3 (own series iff format
+# it is modelled as three series under the plates spec §2.3 (own series iff format
 # OR design OR period differs — here design and period both differ).
 #
 # SOURCING PATH DISCLOSURE, REQUIRED BY HONESTY: the North Carolina General
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "North Carolina General Statutes, Chapter 20 (Motor Vehicles), Article 3 — §§ 20-63 and 20-79.1 as reproduced by codes.findlaw.com and read 2026-08-01; ncleg.gov itself was unreachable (403)"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: public-domain-favourable
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     evidence that nobody has written the tag. Recorded so that a later reader
     does not mistake a missing template for an adverse finding.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default still applies to the Wright Flyer
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default still applies to the Wright Flyer
     graphic, the quill-pen graphic and the national-flag motif until each is
     affirmatively cleared per-emblem. Even under a favourable copyright
     posture, STATE SEALS AND EMBLEMS carry protection independent of copyright
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://codes.findlaw.com/nc/chapter-20-motor-vehicles/nc-gen-st-sect-20-63.html  # § 20-63(b) [via FindLaw; ncleg.gov 403]: the three-design election and the verbatim First in Flight description (words at top, Wright Brothers biplane over Kitty Hawk Beach); (a) one plate; (c) 100-foot daylight legibility"
       - "https://www.ncdot.gov/dmv/title-registration/license-plates/Pages/default.aspx  # NCDMV names 'First in Flight' as one of three standard designs available for private passenger and private hauler vehicles and states what it commemorates (the Wright Brothers' first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, 1903)"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_North_Carolina  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the October 2009 blue-serial start, the December 2010 AAA-1001 block reset, the second-letter A-M allocation rule, the red-to-blue legibility reversion, the updated '8' glyph, and the OBX/Dare County series. None asserted as sourced."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_North_Carolina  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the October 2009 blue-serial start, the December 2010 AAA-1001 block reset, the second-letter A-M allocation rule, the red-to-blue legibility reversion, the updated '8' glyph, and the OBX/Dare County series. None asserted as sourced."
     notes: >-
       NORTH CAROLINA FIRST IN FLIGHT — the default of the three statutory
       designs and the oldest continuously issued. It is also one of the five
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ series:
       lineage is L4 historical depth and is deliberately not modelled at this
       gate. All three current designs share one format and one allocation rule
       and differ only in artwork and serial block — which is exactly why they
-      are three series and not one with variants: PRD-PLATES §2.3 makes design
+      are three series and not one with variants: The plates spec §2.3 makes design
       difference sufficient.
 
   - id: us-nc-standard-first-in-freedom
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ series:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, dimension_evidence: convention-not-sourced }
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
       foreground: "#C8102E"
-      colour_note: "RED serial on reflective white with the light blue Wright Flyer graphic. The red was abandoned in October 2009 after complaints that it was too hard to read at distance — the design difference from the current base is exactly one colour, which under PRD-PLATES §2.3 is enough to make it its own series."
+      colour_note: "RED serial on reflective white with the light blue Wright Flyer graphic. The red was abandoned in October 2009 after complaints that it was too hard to read at distance — the design difference from the current base is exactly one colour, which under the plates spec §2.3 is enough to make it its own series."
       legend_top: "First in Flight"
       graphic: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "Wright Brothers biplane flying over Kitty Hawk Beach, per § 20-63(b)" }
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ series:
           own words: "You can use numbers and some special characters,
           including the question mark (?), ampersand (&), dollar sign ($) and
           the 'at' symbol (@)." None of ?, &, $ or @ is in the dataset's serial
-          alphabet and none is a separator, so under PRD-PLATES §2.6 this is a
+          alphabet and none is a separator, so under the plates spec §2.6 this is a
           SCHEMA AMENDMENT — a `never_separator` entry with its source — and
           not something a data file may decide alone. `matching: strict` is
           still the correct value because the regex is NARROWER than what North
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ series:
       NORTH CAROLINA PERSONALIZED, AND THE STRONGEST SCHEMA FINDING OF GROUP
       SOUTHEAST-A. Two of five states — North Carolina here with ? & $ @, and
       Virginia with the ampersand — officially publish permission to print a
-      non-alphanumeric glyph INSIDE a serial. PRD-PLATES §2.6 anticipated this
+      non-alphanumeric glyph INSIDE a serial. The plates spec §2.6 anticipated this
       exact case and prescribed the remedy: "A jurisdiction that prints a glyph
       inside a serial is a schema amendment, not a data entry. If one lands, it
       goes to _meta/separators.yml's `never_separator` list with its source, and
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ series:
       and points the opposite way from every OCR heuristic in the field.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.5).
+  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (the plates spec §2.5).
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-nc-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ 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 }
     program_index:
       count_official: "more than 100"
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.ncdot.gov/dmv/title-registration/license-plates/Pages/default.aspx  # NCDMV: 'more than 100 causes and interest groups'; the limited-production/out-of-stock model; the membership and award verification gating; the establishment process; and the death-transfer restrictions"
     notes: >-
       THE NORTH CAROLINA SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry standing for the
-      whole programme, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. The count is NCDMV's own "more than
+      whole programme, per the plates spec §2.5. The count is NCDMV's own "more than
       100" and is recorded as an agency estimate, not a count: unlike Virginia,
       North Carolina does not expose a faceted search that would reconcile a
       total. What North Carolina gives instead, and no other state in this group