vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/us-nd.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-nd.yml — North Dakota (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group midwest-b).
+# plates/us-nd.yml — North Dakota (the plates spec gate L2, group midwest-b).
 #
 # NORTH DAKOTA IS THE BEST-SOURCED STATE IN THIS GROUP, and it is worth saying
 # why: NDDOT publishes, on its own license-plate page, a prose specification of
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # be "of a distinguishing color" and named none. So `us-nd-blackout` is the only
 # series in this group whose hexes are `hex_basis: statute`.
 #
-# SOURCING RULE APPLIED HERE (PRD-PLATES §4): edicts of government are public
+# SOURCING RULE APPLIED HERE (the plates spec §4): edicts of government are public
 # domain at every level, so every content, display, reflectorization and class
 # claim below cites the North Dakota Century Code. The NDDOT page is cited only
 # for what the Code does not carry: the current base design, its introduction
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "North Dakota Century Code Title 39, Chapter 39-04 (Motor Vehicles — Registration), chapter text as published by the North Dakota Legislative Branch at ndlegis.gov and fetched 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: unresearched
@@ -54,13 +54,13 @@ artwork_risk:
     specifications are freely usable EVEN IF the Badlands/bison artwork is not. This
     is the cleanest legal path the dossier identifies and this file walks it.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies to the BISON, the BADLANDS scene and
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies to the BISON, the BADLANDS scene and
     the THREE WHEAT STALKS. These are pictorial artwork described by NDDOT in prose,
     not drawn in any statutory instrument, so nothing about them is cleared. Render
     `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`. State-seal misuse statutes are a
     protection regime independent of copyright and are unresearched for North Dakota.
   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 North Dakota 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 North Dakota has NO section in the survey — a negative result, recorded as such"
     - "https://www.dot.nd.gov/motor-vehicle/license-plates  # NDDOT's own description of the artwork whose status is unresearched"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       BLACKOUT PLATES. Two things make this series worth its own entry rather than a
       colour sub-entry on the standard series. First, the colours differ AND they are
-      legislated, so under PRD-PLATES §2.3 the design difference is its own series and
+      legislated, so under the plates spec §2.3 the design difference is its own series and
       the values are sourced to an edict. Second, the eligibility rule is a genuine
       restriction — a truck over 20,000 lb registered gross weight cannot have one — so
       the series scopes narrower than its jurisdiction default, which is exactly the
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ series:
       us-fl-manufacturer carries.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. No individual designs.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5. No individual designs.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-nd-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ series:
       regex_statutory: '\A[A-Z0-9](?: ?[A-Z0-9])*\z'
       charset: { notes: "specialty plates carry ordinary serials on an alternative design; the § 39-04-12(1) grammar applies unchanged, and many North Dakota specialty series are additionally available personalized under § 39-04-10.3" }
     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_statutory: 18
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ series:
         NDDOT publishes no specialty-plate count and no consolidated catalogue was
         located, so no agency figure exists to reconcile against the statutory count. The
         discrepancy between 'authorising sections' and 'designs offered' is recorded, not
-        resolved (PRD-PLATES §5.3 — disagreements are recorded, never averaged).
+        resolved (the plates spec §5.3 — disagreements are recorded, never averaged).
       official_list_url: "https://www.dot.nd.gov/motor-vehicle/license-plates"
       organization_program: "§ 39-04-10.13 is the open-ended door: a public or nonprofit organization may have a number plate authorised, which is the mechanism by which the catalogue grows without further legislation"
     region_encoding: none
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.dot.nd.gov/motor-vehicle/license-plates  # NDDOT's license-plate index page — the official entry point; publishes no count and no consolidated specialty catalogue"
     notes: >-
       THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry standing for the whole program, which is
-      what PRD-PLATES §2.5 asks for at this gate. North Dakota is the cleanest counting
+      what the plates spec §2.5 asks for at this gate. North Dakota is the cleanest counting
       case in group midwest-b because its programs are created by NUMBERED STATUTORY
       SECTIONS rather than by departmental discretion, so the index can be counted from an
       edict of government instead of from a marketing page. The honest caveat is recorded

data/data/plates/us-ne.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-ne.yml — Nebraska (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group midwest-b).
+# plates/us-ne.yml — Nebraska (the plates spec gate L2, group midwest-b).
 #
 # NEBRASKA IS THE MOST STRUCTURALLY INTERESTING STATE IN THIS GROUP, and the
 # reason is that it runs TWO INCOMPATIBLE SERIAL SYSTEMS SIMULTANEOUSLY, split
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "Nebraska Revised Statutes Chapter 60 as CITED BY the Nebraska DMV's own 2023-series catalogue, registration manual and specialty-plate tables. THE STATUTE TEXT ITSELF WAS NOT READ: nebraskalegislature.gov timed out on every request in this pass (recorded gap). No section is quoted verbatim below."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched
@@ -59,13 +59,13 @@ artwork_risk:
     uncopyrightable — which is the ground this file actually stands on — but their TEXT
     is not free to reproduce, and none is reproduced at length here.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies to every Nebraska plate graphic,
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies to every Nebraska plate graphic,
     including the Husker mark, which carries a further layer: it is a UNIVERSITY mark,
     plausibly trademarked and licensed to the state's program rather than owned by it.
     Nothing about it is cleared. Render `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`.
     State-seal misuse statutes are unresearched for Nebraska.
   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 Nebraska 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 Nebraska has NO section in the survey — a negative result, recorded as such"
 
 us_standards:
   no_federal_mandate: true
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ series:
       pattern_note: >-
         'regardless of spacing' in the source is why the separator is optional in the
         regex: the DMV treats `ABC123` and `ABC 123` as the same reserved shape, which is
-        exactly the separator-forgiving equivalence PRD-PLATES §2.6 exists to make sound.
+        exactly the separator-forgiving equivalence the plates spec §2.6 exists to make sound.
       progression: "not established (recorded gap)"
     design:
       graphic: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "the 2023-series Nebraska base graphic; the DMV catalogue carries designs as raster images and describes none of them in text" }
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ series:
       needing the statute. PERIOD NOTE: `end: 2023` overlaps the current series' `start:
       2023` by design and by fact — a plate issued under the 2017 series remains valid and
       on the road well past the changeover, which is exactly the parallel-issuance case
-      PRD-PLATES's overlap-legal-iff-distinct-notes rule exists to permit.
+      the plates spec's overlap-legal-iff-distinct-notes rule exists to permit.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # COUNTY MESSAGE — the ONLY Nebraska serial grammar stated in full anywhere,
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ series:
       NEGATIVE constraint: Nebraska forbids any message shaped like its own standard
       alpha/numeric series, state-wide and independent of spacing. That is a jurisdiction
       actively defending the disjointness of its serial spaces, and it is the cleanest
-      real-world justification in this whole dataset for PRD-PLATES §2.6's
+      real-world justification in this whole dataset for the plates spec §2.6's
       separator-forgiving contract — the DMV itself reasons about `ABC123` and `ABC 123`
       as the same string. Modelled as `personalized` because the serial is owner-chosen.
 
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ series:
       dealer plate in both states. Recorded on both files for that reason.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # 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-ne-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ series:
         organizational, cause and military plates), and FCC-assigned call signs (Amateur
         Radio). The pattern shows the common assigned form the DMV writes as '123AB'.
     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: 42
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ series:
       - "https://dmv.nebraska.gov/dvr/license-plates  # the DMV's license-plate index, the official entry point for the program list"
     notes: >-
       THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry standing for the whole program, per
-      PRD-PLATES §2.5, with no individual designs. Nebraska is the best-instrumented
+      the plates spec §2.5, with no individual designs. Nebraska is the best-instrumented
       specialty index in group midwest-b for a reason worth generalising: the state
       publishes its plate types as an NLETS CODE TABLE, i.e. as operational data for other
       states' police systems, complete with per-type character limits. Any state that

data/data/plates/us-nh.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-nh.yml — New Hampshire (PRD-PLATES gate L2, northeast group).
+# plates/us-nh.yml — New Hampshire (the plates spec gate L2, northeast group).
 #
 # NEW HAMPSHIRE'S STATUTE DOES ONE THING AND DOES IT ABSOLUTELY: it mandates the
 # SLOGAN by name and delegates everything else. RSA 261:75(II), verbatim: "The
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   RSA 261:75 read this pass, source line ending "2002, 165:6, eff. July 1, 2002".
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ series:
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
       - "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXI/261/261-75.htm  # RSA 261:75(II): the 'Live Free or Die' mandate for passenger plates, and the delegation of number, location, material and design to the director; (I) the department's issuance duty, the $4.00 fee and the effective-period designation"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Hampshire  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the January 1999 base with the Old Man of the Mountain and Cannon Mountain, the three concurrent numeric arrangements, the DESCENDING six-digit sequence, the current 123 4567 range to 553 8164 as of 17 January 2025, and the graphic-position shift by format"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Hampshire  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the January 1999 base with the Old Man of the Mountain and Cannon Mountain, the three concurrent numeric arrangements, the DESCENDING six-digit sequence, the current 123 4567 range to 553 8164 as of 17 January 2025, and the graphic-position shift by format"
       - "https://www.licenseplates.cc/NH  # enthusiast corroboration, cited because used: the reported serial high-water mark. No text or image copied"
     notes: >-
       NEW HAMPSHIRE STANDARD ISSUE. The base is dated 1999 and the DESIGN has not
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ series:
       pattern: "LLL 999"
       regex: '\A[A-Z]{3} ?\d{3}\z'
       charset: { notes: "reported AAA 001 to approximately DEX 500. The immediately preceding arrangement, on the 1987 base, was a plain six-digit 123456 running 1 to 999999" }
-      separator_note: "printed with a hyphen in secondary depictions (ABC-123); spelled U+0020 here, and either reading is inside the emitted set (PRD-PLATES §2.6) — recorded because the two are not interchangeable to a strict matcher"
+      separator_note: "printed with a hyphen in secondary depictions (ABC-123); spelled U+0020 here, and either reading is inside the emitted set (the plates spec §2.6) — recorded because the two are not interchangeable to a strict matcher"
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ series:
       structural gap.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.5). New Hampshire's program
+  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (the plates spec §2.5). New Hampshire's program
   # is a plate with a hole in it, and that is genuinely novel.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-nh-specialty-index
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ series:
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      note: "the Decal Plate 'resembles a regular New Hampshire passenger license plate' but carries a BLANK 3-inch by 3-inch SQUARE on the left side. The plate itself is one design; the variation lives in a separately purchased adhesive decal. No individual decal design is described here (PRD-PLATES §2.5)."
+      note: "the Decal Plate 'resembles a regular New Hampshire passenger license plate' but carries a BLANK 3-inch by 3-inch SQUARE on the left side. The plate itself is one design; the variation lives in a separately purchased adhesive decal. No individual decal design is described here (the plates spec §2.5)."
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "Old Man of the Mountain at right on the decal plate — the graphic moves right to clear the decal square" }
     program_index:
       model: >-
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ series:
         artefact than any other specialty count in this group except Connecticut's
         statute-derived one.
       veteran_decals: "RSA 261-C additionally authorises Veteran Decal Plates with a distinguishing veteran design in the same 3x3 square, sold by the NH Office of Veteran Services rather than by a charity. Branch decals cover Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and SPACE FORCE — an issuing agency that has already added the newest US service branch. Medal-of-valor decals cover Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, Air Force Cross, Silver Star and Bronze Star, each pre-qualified; Gold Star family decals run under RSA 261-C:3-a."
-      other_specialty_series: "Separately from the decal program New Hampshire issues a CONSERVATION plate (the 'moose plate') from 1999, with a stacked 'C/H' marker beside the serial and five reported serial arrangements (C/H1234X, C/H123X4, C/H12X34, C/H1X234, C/HX1234). It is NOT given a series here: five width variants with no primary and a stacked marker of contested serial status is precisely the shape that produces a wrong regex, and PRD-PLATES §2.5 does not require it. Recorded as the file's largest deliberate omission."
+      other_specialty_series: "Separately from the decal program New Hampshire issues a CONSERVATION plate (the 'moose plate') from 1999, with a stacked 'C/H' marker beside the serial and five reported serial arrangements (C/H1234X, C/H123X4, C/H12X34, C/H1X234, C/HX1234). It is NOT given a series here: five width variants with no primary and a stacked marker of contested serial status is precisely the shape that produces a wrong regex, and the plates spec §2.5 does not require it. Recorded as the file's largest deliberate omission."
       fees: "$15 per year for a Decal Plate on top of town and state registration fees; $40 more for a Decal Vanity Plate; an $8.00 plate manufacturing fee in the first year only (DMV's own figures)."
       official_list_url: "https://www.dmv.nh.gov/vehicles-boats-or-titles/vehicle-registrations/decal-plates"
     region_encoding: none
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ series:
       THE NEW HAMPSHIRE SPECIALTY INDEX. `period_evidence: statutory-date`
       because the DMV cites RSA 261-B and a specific commencement date, 3 July
       2017, in its own words — the only specialty index in this group with a
-      dated statutory start. THE STRUCTURAL LESSON, which belongs in the PRD's
+      dated statutory start. THE STRUCTURAL LESSON, which belongs in the spec's
       §2.5 discussion and not just in this file: the "specialty programs" concept
       assumes one design per program, and New Hampshire breaks that assumption by
       separating the PLATE (state, one design, one serial space) from the DECAL

data/data/plates/us-nj.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-nj.yml — New Jersey (PRD-PLATES gate L2, mid-Atlantic group).
+# plates/us-nj.yml — New Jersey (the plates spec gate L2, mid-Atlantic group).
 #
 # THE FINDING THIS FILE EXISTS FOR: NEW JERSEY'S SEPARATOR IS NOT A CHARACTER.
 # The gap in the middle of a New Jersey serial is occupied by a SILHOUETTE OF
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 39 (Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulation), read 2026-08-02 through a third-party reproduction (see the sourcing caveat on 39:3-33). Edicts of government are public domain at every level, so the reproduction carries the text faithfully, but the OFFICIAL New Jersey Legislature service was not reachable in this pass and that is recorded as a gap."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# 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
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY: surfaces Burnett v. County of Bergen, 402 N.J. Super 319 (2008) and N.J.S.A. 52:18A-234.5 (Open Data Initiative Act). Neither was fetched."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# THE SEPARATOR FINDING (PRD-PLATES §2.6 / §2.8).
+# THE SEPARATOR FINDING (the plates spec §2.6 / §2.8).
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 separator_finding:
   headline: "New Jersey prints a state-outline GRAPHIC in the serial gap."
@@ -194,14 +194,14 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://www.nj.gov/mvc/vehicles/standplates.htm  # NJ MVC's standard-plate page and its official 'Standard Plate Example' image — the source for the 3+3 grouping, the state-outline separator, the gradient, the mixed-case legends and the two-plate rule"
       - "https://www.nj.gov/mvc/vehicles/personalized.htm  # NJ MVC: 'A personalized plate must have at least three letters and a maximum of seven characters' — the only official New Jersey character constraint"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Jersey  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the April 2014 date, the A12-BCD arrangement, the A10-EFF start and the R22-WPG progression"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Jersey  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the April 2014 date, the A12-BCD arrangement, the A10-EFF start and the R22-WPG progression"
     notes: >-
       GARDEN STATE, SCREENED (2014-). The current New Jersey standard issue.
       `start: 2014` is locator-grade; what is agency-sourced is that this is the
       design NJ MVC shows as its standard plate today. The 2010 and 2014 bases
       share a serial arrangement and differ ONLY in manufacture — embossed with
       security threads versus screened — which is exactly the kind of boundary
-      PRD-PLATES §2.3 says makes a separate series (design differs) while
+      the plates spec §2.3 says makes a separate series (design differs) while
       warning that it will look like hair-splitting to a consumer. It is not:
       an embossed New Jersey plate and a screened one are physically different
       objects and a renderer must know which it is drawing.
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ series:
       pattern_note: >-
         The three-letter minimum is an unusual constraint — most states bound
         length and alphabet, not letter COUNT — and it is exactly the kind of
-        authority-alphabet rule PRD-PLATES §2.7 invented `regex_strict` for.
+        authority-alphabet rule the plates spec §2.7 invented `regex_strict` for.
     fee: "$50 initial personalisation; $50 to reactivate a registration expired more than two years; $50 to reissue to a different owner (NJ MVC). Dedicated plates may additionally be personalised with up to FIVE characters for an initial $100 plus the annual renewal."
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ series:
       validator that treats personalisation as one rule per state.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-nj-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ series:
       charset: { notes: "specialty plates carry ORDINARY serials on an alternative design; when personalised they are capped at five characters rather than seven (NJ MVC)." }
     design:
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      note: "one design per approved programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per approved programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here"
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
     program_index:
       structure_official: >-

data/data/plates/us-nm.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-nm.yml — New Mexico (PRD-PLATES gate L2, mountain group).
+# plates/us-nm.yml — New Mexico (the plates spec gate L2, mountain group).
 #
 # THREE STANDARD PLATES, THREE DIFFERENT SERIAL LENGTHS, ALL CURRENT. New
 # Mexico's Motor Vehicle Division lists a "Standard Red and Yellow License
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   Section numbers are pointers, not sources.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     recorded here as a FLAGGED, UNRESEARCHED legal question — no source for it
     was fetched in this pass and none is cited.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies, with the Zia carve-out above
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies, with the Zia carve-out above
     treated as non-negotiable. New Mexico state seal and state symbol statutes
     are UNRESEARCHED (standing gap, US dossier §4.5), and New Mexico is the one
     state in this group where that gap is known in advance to be load-bearing.
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     generated from the spec. Note that it also would not reach the Zia question,
     which is not a copyright question at all.
   sources:
-    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): consulted, and recorded because its New Mexico section is EMPTY — the negative result is the claim"
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): consulted, and recorded because its New Mexico section is EMPTY — the negative result is the claim"
     - "https://www.mvd.newmexico.gov/vehicles/license-plates/  # New Mexico MVD, on personalized plates: 'Special characters such as the Zia symbol, hash tag, asterisk, dash, underscore, space, or any other special characters are not allowed.' Cited here because it is the state's own statement that the Zia is not a serial character."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ display_rules:
     bare state name will miss it.
   sources:
     - "https://www.mvd.newmexico.gov/vehicles/license-plates/  # New Mexico MVD's own plate index and the standard/personalized/collegiate/handicapped/historical/military/organization/police/motorcycle category structure"
-    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Mexico  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): rear-only since 1961; the USA legend and its rationale; the Waldale manufacture; the design descriptions and serial ranges cited per series below"
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Mexico  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): rear-only since 1961; the USA legend and its rationale; the Waldale manufacture; the design descriptions and serial ranges cited per series below"
 
 series:
 
@@ -153,14 +153,14 @@ series:
           SIX LETTERS ARE EXCLUDED FROM NEW MEXICO SERIALS — E, I, O, Q, U and
           V — which is the widest exclusion set found in the mountain group and
           twice the size of Nevada's. It is what `regex_strict` encodes; the
-          round-trip forbids `regex` from carrying it (PRD-PLATES §2.7). The
+          round-trip forbids `regex` from carrying it (the plates spec §2.7). The
           exclusion is CORROBORATION-GRADE, from a collector reference reached
           through a locator, and the locator additionally records that E was
           separately withheld from the 123-ABC arrangement when it began. No New
           Mexico instrument stating the alphabet was read.
       pattern_note: >-
         The separator is spelled as the sanctioned separator-only class `[- ]`
-        (PRD-PLATES §2.8) rather than as a bare hyphen, and DELIBERATELY: the
+        (the plates spec §2.8) rather than as a bare hyphen, and DELIBERATELY: the
         plate does not print a hyphen at all. It prints the Zia sun symbol. The
         class is the honest encoding of a gap whose printed glyph is not in the
         emitted set, exactly as `es-consular-cc-1999` uses it for a gap whose
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ series:
         THE ZIA SUN SYMBOL. Embossed between the numeric and alphabetic groups.
         It is NOT a serial character and the MVD says so by listing it with the
         dash and the space among the "special characters" that may not appear in
-        a personalized serial. Under PRD-PLATES §2.6 the dataset may emit only
+        a personalized serial. Under the plates spec §2.6 the dataset may emit only
         '-' and ' ', so the regexes spell the position with the separator-only
         class `[- ]` and this field records what is printed. New Mexico and
         Nevada together are the US cases that should be added to
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ series:
       information that is not in its serial and not in its printed legend.
     sources:
       - "https://www.mvd.newmexico.gov/vehicles/license-plates/  # New Mexico MVD lists 'Standard Red and Yellow License Plate' among its current standard plates, and states the Zia-symbol exclusion from personalized serials"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Mexico  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the late-1990 base introduction, the 123-ABC arrangement from early 1991, the 001-AAA to 275-XJX range as of January 2025, the E/I/O/Q/U/V exclusion, the design description and the county-sticker indentation. None is asserted as sourced."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Mexico  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the late-1990 base introduction, the 123-ABC arrangement from early 1991, the 001-AAA to 275-XJX range as of January 2025, the E/I/O/Q/U/V exclusion, the design description and the county-sticker indentation. None is asserted as sourced."
     notes: >-
       NEW MEXICO'S YELLOW BASE — THE LONGEST-RUNNING CURRENT DESIGN IN THE
       MOUNTAIN GROUP, and by a distance: continuously issued since late 1990 in
@@ -261,10 +261,10 @@ series:
       slogan changed, and now runs alongside the yellow base and the chile base
       as an equally standard option. The 2016 change — slogan moved, "USA"
       added — is a DESIGN change on an unchanged arrangement, which under
-      PRD-PLATES §2.3 argues for a separate series; it is recorded as a variant
+      the plates spec §2.3 argues for a separate series; it is recorded as a variant
       inside this entry instead, because no primary establishes the boundary and
       minting a dated id on a locator date would be exactly the folklore
-      boundary the PRD warns against. A verifier with a primary should split it.
+      boundary the spec warns against. A verifier with a primary should split it.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # CURRENT STANDARD (3) — the chile base. Six characters, no separator, and
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ series:
       papered over.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. New Mexico's is
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5. New Mexico's is
   # statute-per-plate, and the MVD cites the section for nearly every entry.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-nm-special-plate-index
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ series:
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      note: "one design per authorised programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per authorised programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here"
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
     program_index:
       structure: >-
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.mvd.newmexico.gov/vehicles/license-plates/  # New Mexico MVD's plate catalogue: the category structure, the ten collegiate institutions, the per-plate NMSA 1978 citations counted above, the Amateur Radio call-letter rule and its civil-defence purpose, and the discontinued Santa Fe 400th Anniversary plate"
     notes: >-
       THE SPECIAL-PLATE PROGRAM INDEX — one entry for the whole programme, per
-      PRD-PLATES §2.5. What makes New Mexico's worth returning to is that the
+      the plates spec §2.5. What makes New Mexico's worth returning to is that the
       catalogue is a LIST OF STATUTE SECTIONS, published as such by the agency:
       a future pass with access to NMSA can enumerate the 66-3-424.x block
       directly and get a complete, dated, primary-sourced specialty index — the

data/data/plates/us-nv.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-nv.yml — Nevada (PRD-PLATES gate L2, mountain group).
+# plates/us-nv.yml — Nevada (the plates spec gate L2, mountain group).
 #
 # NEVADA IS THE BEST-LEGISLATED PLATE SYSTEM IN THIS GROUP. Where Arizona
 # delegates everything and Colorado legislates a character cap, NRS Chapter 482
@@ -20,14 +20,14 @@
 # legislatively authorised reproduction programme — a live series and a revival
 # series of the same design, side by side, both current.
 #
-# THE SEPARATOR FINDING (PRD-PLATES §2.6): the glyph between the serial groups
+# THE SEPARATOR FINDING (the plates spec §2.6): the glyph between the serial groups
 # on a modern Nevada plate is THE OUTLINE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA. It is a
 # design element occupying a separator position, not a character. Every regex
 # below therefore spells that position with the emitted SPACE, and
 # `design.serial_separator_glyph` records what is actually printed. See the
 # note on `us-nv-standard-2024`.
 #
-# WHAT IS NOT HERE (PRD-PLATES §2.5): individual special-plate DESIGNS.
+# WHAT IS NOT HERE (the plates spec §2.5): individual special-plate DESIGNS.
 jurisdiction: us-nv
 authority:
   name: Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   28 May 2025, which preserves that revision stamp.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     and both are exactly where the answer sat in the two states where it was
     found.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies, and applies to more than usual
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies, and applies to more than usual
     here: the Nevada plate's identity is carried by the STATE-OUTLINE glyph
     between the serial groups and by the stylised mountain range along the
     bottom. Render both as `rendered: placeholder`. Nevada state seal statutes
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     photograph licenses the PHOTOGRAPH, not the design, and never reaches a
     render generated from the spec.
   sources:
-    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): consulted, and recorded here precisely because its Nevada section is EMPTY — the negative result is the claim"
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): consulted, and recorded here precisely because its Nevada section is EMPTY — the negative result is the claim"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The US standards chain. Nevada is the one state in this group whose statute
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ series:
           Q have not been used in Nevada passenger serials since the 2001 base
           and the practice continues. That is what `regex_strict` encodes, and
           it is why a strict twin exists here at all — the round-trip forbids
-          `regex` from carrying it (PRD-PLATES §2.7). The exclusion is
+          `regex` from carrying it (the plates spec §2.7). The exclusion is
           corroboration-grade (a collector reference reached through a locator),
           not authority-stated, and is recorded as such; the statute is silent,
           because § 482.2705(2) hands the Director the whole question: "the
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ series:
         screened in black within the mountain range. Recorded as a lead.
       serial_separator_glyph: >-
         THE PRINTED SEPARATOR IS THE OUTLINE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, not a
-        hyphen, dot or space. Under PRD-PLATES §2.6 the dataset may emit only
+        hyphen, dot or space. Under the plates spec §2.6 the dataset may emit only
         '-' and ' ', so every regex here spells that position with an optional
         SPACE and this field records the truth. The reasoning is the one already
         set out in _meta/separators.yml's never_separator note for German and
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-482.html  # NRS 482.2705(1)-(2): the Director orders preparation of passenger and truck plates in the same manner as § 482.270 and determines the letter-and-number combinations; § 482.270(4)-(5) the material, brightness and visibility requirements and the mandatory plate contents"
       - "https://dmv.nv.gov/platesnumbers.htm  # Nevada DMV, Previously-Issued Standard Plate Numbers: 'You may obtain any standard plate number (\"123ABC\") or special counter plate number (\"Lake Tahoe 12345\")' subject to an 18-month dormancy or a release form; and '\"123ABC\" can be ordered in the Home Means Nevada or Circa 1982 styles only'"
       - "https://dmv.nv.gov/platesmain.htm  # Nevada DMV: 'License plates are available in the standard Home Means Nevada design and more than 30 specialty designs'"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nevada  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the March 2024 arrangement change, the two concurrent current arrangements and their ranges, the I/O/Q exclusion, the state-outline separator, the design description and the historic county-code table. None is asserted as sourced."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nevada  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the March 2024 arrangement change, the two concurrent current arrangements and their ranges, the I/O/Q exclusion, the state-outline separator, the design description and the historic county-code table. None is asserted as sourced."
     notes: >-
       NEVADA STANDARD ISSUE, CURRENT ARRANGEMENTS. THE BASE IS OLDER THAN THE
       SERIES: "Home Means Nevada" debuted 1 November 2016 and the March 2024
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nevada  # LOCATOR ONLY: the 1 November 2016 debut of the Home Means Nevada base, the 000 A00 to 999 Z99 range and the ZDK-ZZZ dealer block"
     notes: >-
       THE PREVIOUS ARRANGEMENT ON THE CURRENT BASE. It is separated from
-      us-nv-standard-2024 because the format differs and PRD-PLATES §2.3 makes
+      us-nv-standard-2024 because the format differs and the plates spec §2.3 makes
       format a series boundary, and it is kept because the two are visually
       identical — a photograph cannot distinguish them, only the serial can.
       That is precisely the case a format-plus-period dataset exists to resolve
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nevada  # LOCATOR ONLY: the January 2001 start, the December 2006 screening change, the April 2015 arrangement change, the July 2015 re-embossing and state-shape separator, and concurrent issuance with the Home Means Nevada base from 1 November 2016 until supplies were exhausted"
     notes: >-
       THE PREVIOUS BASE. The overlap with us-nv-standard-2016 is REAL AND
-      DELIBERATE, and is exactly the parallel-issuance case PRD-PLATES §2.2
+      DELIBERATE, and is exactly the parallel-issuance case the plates spec §2.2
       anticipates: the Sierra base kept being issued from existing stock after
       the Home Means Nevada base debuted on 1 November 2016, until supplies ran
       out. Old stock issues on — recorded, not smoothed.
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nevada  # LOCATOR ONLY: the six-digit numeric arrangement and the 2017 transition to the Home Means Nevada motorcycle base"
     notes: >-
       MOTORCYCLE PLATES. Included because § 482.272 gives motorcycles their own
-      section and their own issuance rule, which is the test PRD-PLATES §2.3
+      section and their own issuance rule, which is the test the plates spec §2.3
       sets for a separate series. The honest weakness is the FORMAT: the statute
       delegates the character count entirely, and the six-digit arrangement is
       corroboration-grade. Recorded with that grade visible rather than omitted,
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ series:
           The prefix letter carries the meaning: D, L or R for the dealer,
           lessor and rebuilder families (corroboration-grade from a locator).
           `regex` accepts any prefix letter because the round-trip against
-          `pattern` forbids it from carrying the restriction (PRD-PLATES §2.7);
+          `pattern` forbids it from carrying the restriction (the plates spec §2.7);
           `regex_strict` is the sourced-as-far-as-it-goes prefix set.
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
@@ -584,10 +584,10 @@ series:
       `matching: recall-only` is the correct grade and worth stating plainly: an
       unbounded alphanumeric regex is deliberately wider than any grammar Nevada
       actually issues, so a match is a shape hit and nothing more, exactly as
-      PRD-PLATES §2.7 requires such a regex to be labelled.
+      the plates spec §2.7 requires such a regex to be labelled.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-nv-special-plate-index
     class: specialty
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ series:
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      note: "one design per authorised programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per authorised programme; the designs themselves are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here"
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
     program_index:
       count_official: "more than 30"
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ series:
         the charitable-and-collegiate group alone, plus twenty-one veteran
         plates and four main plates, so "more than 30" is plainly a floor rather
         than a total. Both figures are recorded; neither is averaged
-        (PRD-PLATES §5.3). The veteran group as listed: Air Force, Army, Army
+        (the plates spec §5.3). The veteran group as listed: Air Force, Army, Army
         Airborne, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, National Guard - Air Force,
         National Guard - Army, Navy, Navy Seabees, Woman Veteran, Disabled
         Veteran, Disabled Female Veteran, Medal of Honor, Silver Star, Bronze
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ series:
       - "https://dmv.nv.gov/platescharitable.htm  # Nevada DMV charitable and collegiate plates: the sequential-versus-personalized fee structure and the per-cause allocations"
     notes: >-
       THE SPECIAL-PLATE PROGRAM INDEX — one entry for the whole programme, per
-      PRD-PLATES §2.5. Nevada is the most quantitatively documented specialty
+      the plates spec §2.5. Nevada is the most quantitatively documented specialty
       programme in the mountain group: the threshold, the window, both fee tiers
       and the per-cause allocation are all in statute or on the DMV's own pages,
       and the catalogue itself is a statutory range. What is NOT here, and is