vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/us-ny.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-# plates/us-ny.yml — New York (PRD-PLATES gate L2, mid-Atlantic group).
+# plates/us-ny.yml — New York (the plates spec gate L2, mid-Atlantic group).
 #
 # WHY NEW YORK IS THE HARD ARTWORK CASE. The US/world dossier flags NY as
 # ADVERSE: courts have held works of the State of New York generally subject to
 # copyright (County of Suffolk v. First American Real Estate Solutions, 261 F.3d
 # 179 (2d Cir. 2001)), there is no {{PD-NYGov}} tag on Commons, and the current
 # Excelsior base is the most graphically loaded standard plate in this group —
-# Niagara Falls and the New York City skyline across the bottom. Under PRD-PLATES
+# Niagara Falls and the New York City skyline across the bottom. Under the plates spec
 # §3 the emblem/graphic slot renders as a NEUTRAL PLACEHOLDER here, and unlike
 # Florida there is no favourable state posture to revisit it against. See
 # `artwork_risk`.
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "New York Consolidated Laws, Vehicle and Traffic Law (VAT), as served by nysenate.gov and read 2026-08-02. No point-in-time edition marker is exposed by that service, so the read date is the edition marker."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: adverse
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ artwork_risk:
   evidence_grade: >-
     HONEST LIMIT: the County of Suffolk opinion itself was NOT FETCHED in this
     pass — it was located through the Wikipedia survey of subnational copyright
-    status, which is a LOCATOR under PRD-PLATES §4 and not an authority. The
+    status, which is a LOCATOR under the plates spec §4 and not an authority. The
     CITATION is recorded so a verifier can pull the opinion (an edict of
     government, public domain, and freely quotable once obtained). The posture
     conclusion should be re-derived from the opinion before any render decision
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     RENDER PLACEHOLDER, and unlike Florida do not expect to revisit it. The
     Excelsior base carries a photographic-derived Niagara Falls image and a New
     York City skyline; the Empire Gold base carries none. Both are
-    `graphic: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`. PRD-PLATES §4.5's own
+    `graphic: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`. The plates spec §4.5's own
     risk ladder puts "exact reproduction of the state's graphic" at the top of
     the risk column in NY specifically.
   photograph_caution: >-
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ display_rules:
     - "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/VAT/401  # § 401(3)(a) distinctive number, TWO number plates, reflectorized material to the commissioner's specifications, the $25 reflectorized-set fee; (3)(b) re-assignment of the distinctive number on surrender"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# A SCHEMA STRESSOR NEW YORK CREATES ALL BY ITSELF (PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 3).
+# A SCHEMA STRESSOR NEW YORK CREATES ALL BY ITSELF (the plates spec §2.6 rule 3).
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 serial_alphabet_finding:
   headline: "New York lets a GRAPHIC be a character inside the serial."
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ serial_alphabet_finding:
     counted toward the eight-character allowance, and 'your plate combination
     cannot begin or end with the state image. It must have at least one
     character on each side of it.' That is a glyph INSIDE a serial, which
-    PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 3 says is a SCHEMA AMENDMENT, not a data entry. It is
+    the plates spec §2.6 rule 3 says is a SCHEMA AMENDMENT, not a data entry. It is
     NOT encoded anywhere in this file: `_meta/separators.yml` declares the
     serial alphabet as A-Z and 0-9 and nothing else, and there is no sanctioned
     way to spell a state-outline glyph in a pattern or a regex.
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ series:
         the Vehicle and Traffic Law states none. `format_evidence` is therefore
         `secondary-locator-unverified` and a verifier must re-derive the
         arrangement before this series carries a five-nines claim. The hyphen is
-        optional in the regex because it is a printed separator (PRD-PLATES
+        optional in the regex because it is a printed separator (the plates spec
         §2.6): the canonical separator-free twin is derived, not shipped.
       stacked_characters_note: "AAMVA treats stacked characters as part of the official number, at most two stacked. New York does not stack on the passenger base."
     design:
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ series:
       - "https://dmv.ny.gov/plates  # NYSDMV: 'DMV now offers Excelsior license plates featuring New York State landmarks' — the official evidence that this design is the current offering (agency-page-in-force)"
       - "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/VAT/401  # § 401(3)(a): the distinctive number, two plates, reflectorized material to the commissioner's specifications — the whole of New York's statutory design law"
       - "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/VAT/402  # § 402(2): the marked-contrast rule, which is why the hexes below are `observed` and not `spec`"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_York  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the June 2020 introduction, the ABC-1234 arrangement and the KAA-1000 start. None of the three is asserted as sourced."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_York  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the June 2020 introduction, the ABC-1234 arrangement and the KAA-1000 start. None of the three is asserted as sourced."
     notes: >-
       EXCELSIOR — THE CURRENT NEW YORK STANDARD ISSUE. `start: 2020` is
       `secondary-locator-unverified`: the June 2020 rollout is reported by
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ series:
           the letter positions — the lookalike exclusions AAMVA-style systems
           make. This is the only New York charset restriction reported anywhere
           and it is LOCATOR-GRADE; it is expressed as `regex_strict` precisely
-          because PRD-PLATES §2.7 forbids `regex` from carrying charset
+          because the plates spec §2.7 forbids `regex` from carrying charset
           restrictions (the round-trip against `pattern` would fail).
     design:
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ series:
       `secondary-locator-unverified` almost everywhere else in us-ny. Note the
       threshold is ROLLING (25 years before the CURRENT calendar year), so the
       eligibility boundary moves without any instrument changing — the audit
-      case PRD-PLATES §9 warns about.
+      case the plates spec §9 warns about.
 
   - id: us-ny-historic-motorcycle
     class: historic
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       HISTORICAL MOTORCYCLE. Its own series rather than a variant because the
       literal token in the serial differs (HM, not HX) — a FORMAT difference, which
-      PRD-PLATES §2.3 makes the test for a separate series.
+      the plates spec §2.3 makes the test for a separate series.
 
   - id: us-ny-vintage
     class: historic
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ series:
           some year between 1901 and roughly 2001, across a century of unrecorded
           arrangements.
       pattern_note: >-
-        `matching: recall-only` (PRD-PLATES §2.7), and it is the textbook case
+        `matching: recall-only` (the plates spec §2.7), and it is the textbook case
         alongside `nl-export`: the regex is a deliberate CATCH-ALL over every
         New York arrangement, so a match says only 'this string has a shape New
         York has issued' and is emphatically NOT a claim that the string is a
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ series:
       is the most consequential schema result of the mid-Atlantic pass.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # 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-ny-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ series:
       charset: { notes: "custom picture plates carry ORDINARY serials on an alternative design; when personalised they are capped at SIX characters rather than eight (NYSDMV), which is the one place a New York specialty plate's grammar differs from the standard series." }
     design:
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      note: "one design per approved organisation or cause; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per approved organisation or cause; 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: 206
@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/VAT/404  # § 404: the permissive special-plate authority, the eight-character cap and the service charge"
     notes: >-
       THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry standing for the whole programme,
-      which is what PRD-PLATES §2.5 asks for at this gate. New York's count is
+      which is what the plates spec §2.5 asks for at this gate. New York's count is
       the CLEANEST in the mid-Atlantic group because the agency publishes a
       machine-readable result count (206) rather than a rounded claim: contrast
       Florida's contested 'over 100' (agency) versus 'over 120' (locator). No
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ series:
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # CLASSES NEW YORK ISSUES THAT ARE DELIBERATELY NOT MODELLED AS SERIES.
 # A series needs a format. Where no format was obtained, a recorded gap beats
-# an invented pattern (PRD-PLATES §5.3: record disagreements, never average).
+# an invented pattern (the plates spec §5.3: record disagreements, never average).
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 unmodelled_classes:
   temporary: >-

data/data/plates/us-oh.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-oh.yml — Ohio (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group midwest-a).
+# plates/us-oh.yml — Ohio (the plates spec gate L2, group midwest-a).
 #
 # WHAT OHIO IS FOR IN THIS DATASET: the state where the DISPLAY statute is
 # unusually generous and the DESIGN statute is silent. ORC 4503.19 and 4503.21
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # states a serial arrangement, a colour, or a plate dimension for the ordinary
 # passenger plate. Ohio legislates DISPLAY and delegates DESIGN.
 #
-# 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 display, temporary-tag, county-sticker and
 # government-plate claim below cites the Ohio Revised Code. The serial
 # ARRANGEMENTS are a different matter and are flagged as such: no primary
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@
 # not change by being reprinted, but the provenance chain must say which copy
 # was read.
 #
-# REGEX FORM (PRD-PLATES §2.6): every regex here is in PRINTED form — the
+# REGEX FORM (the plates spec §2.6): every regex here is in PRINTED form — the
 # separator is spelled where the plate shows it, and only `-` and ` ` are ever
 # spelled, per plates/_meta/separators.yml.
 #
-# NOT HERE, DELIBERATELY (PRD-PLATES §2.5 + the L2 scope): individual specialty
+# NOT HERE, DELIBERATELY (the plates spec §2.5 + the L2 scope): individual specialty
 # DESIGNS (L4); Ohio's commercial-truck (PBC 1234) and apportioned (PBC1234)
 # series, which are outside the L2 core-class list; and any government-plate
 # SERIES, because ORC 4503.16 gives the legend but no serial shape and none was
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "Ohio Revised Code Title XLV (Motor Vehicles), Chapter 4503, as reproduced by codes.findlaw.com and read 2026-08-02. The official host codes.ohio.gov was unreachable from this environment; no edition banner was therefore captured, and the edition is an UNVERIFIED currency claim."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched-default-adverse
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     COPYRIGHTED. This is the opposite pole from Florida and must not be
     softened by analogy to it.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies with full force. The current
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies with full force. The current
     "Sunrise in Ohio" base is a full-bleed pictorial scene (skyline, hills,
     river, wheat field, a child on a swing, a Wright Flyer) — the highest-risk
     artwork category in the program, in a state with no PD posture. Render
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     scene beyond a neutral field. State-seal protection is independent of
     copyright and is unresearched for Ohio.
   photograph_caution: >-
-    The standing rule (PRD-PLATES §6): a CC licence on a Commons photograph of
+    The standing rule (the plates spec §6): a CC licence on a Commons photograph of
     an Ohio plate is the PHOTOGRAPHER's licence on the PHOTOGRAPH; the uploader
     had no standing over the design. Because our renders are generated from
     data and never derived from a photograph, those obligations never attach —
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ display_rules:
     - "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4503.19  # CANONICAL citation for the same edict — NOT fetched this pass (host refused the connection)"
     - "https://codes.findlaw.com/oh/title-xlv-motor-vehicles-aeronautics-watercraft/oh-rev-code-sect-4503-21.html  # FETCHED. ORC 4503.21: plain view on the rear, commercial tractor front, no-swing/no-obstruction, temporary-tag rear-window display, minor misdemeanor"
     - "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4503.21  # CANONICAL, not fetched"
-    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ohio  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): 'Only rear plates have been required for all classes of vehicles, except commercial tractors, since July 1, 2020.' The DATE is not asserted as sourced."
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ohio  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): 'Only rear plates have been required for all classes of vehicles, except commercial tractors, since July 1, 2020.' The DATE is not asserted as sourced."
 
 series:
 
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ series:
       first-issue date of 29 December 2021 and on nothing else. No Ohio primary
       dating a base introduction was obtained — Ohio does not legislate base
       changes, the BMV host refused connections, and collector-site era tables
-      are exactly what PRD-PLATES §9 warns about. The year is therefore carried
+      are exactly what the plates spec §9 warns about. The year is therefore carried
       with `period_evidence: secondary-first-issue`, which is a first-class
       admission and not a footnote: a verifier must re-derive it before this
       claim enters the five-nines ledger. The FORMAT is on the same footing.
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ series:
       - "https://codes.findlaw.com/oh/title-xlv-motor-vehicles-aeronautics-watercraft/oh-rev-code-sect-4503-21.html  # FETCHED. ORC 4503.21 display duty applies to the trailer plate as to any other"
     notes: >-
       NON-COMMERCIAL TRAILER. Separately serialized, hence its own series under
-      PRD-PLATES §2.3. The interesting modelling point is the U-BLOCK: Ohio
+      the plates spec §2.3. The interesting modelling point is the U-BLOCK: Ohio
       distinguishes the class by a letter block inside a shared grammar rather
       than by a distinct grammar, so `[A-Z]{3} ?\d{4}` alone cannot tell a
       trailer plate from a passenger plate — only the block can, and blocks
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ series:
       validity is a genuine per-state variable, not a constant.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.5). No individual designs.
+  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (the plates spec §2.5). No individual designs.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-oh-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ series:
       charset: { notes: "specialty plates carry ORDINARY serials on an alternative design; no separate grammar is stated in law or observed" }
     design:
       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: null
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ series:
       - "https://codes.findlaw.com/oh/title-xlv-motor-vehicles-aeronautics-watercraft/oh-rev-code-sect-4503-14.html  # FETCHED. ORC 4503.14 is a worked example of the per-plate statutory pattern: it authorises plates bearing 'the official call letters of the applicant as assigned by the federal communications commission' for licensed amateur-radio and broadcast operators"
     notes: >-
       THE OHIO SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry standing for the whole
-      programme, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. The count is a declared gap. The finding
+      programme, per the plates spec §2.5. The count is a declared gap. The finding
       worth carrying forward is STRUCTURAL rather than numeric: Ohio does not
       have a generic specialty-plate mechanism with a petition threshold the way
       Illinois and Wisconsin do; it authorises plates individually in statute.

data/data/plates/us-ok.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-ok.yml — Oklahoma (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group: southcentral).
+# plates/us-ok.yml — Oklahoma (the plates spec gate L2, group: southcentral).
 #
 # WHY OKLAHOMA IS THE BEST-SOURCED STATE IN THIS GROUP, and it is not close:
 #
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "Oklahoma Statutes Title 47 (Motor Vehicles), Oklahoma Senate published compilation, 2019 — the edition obtainable by fetch. oscn.net (official) timed out on every attempt this pass; post-2019 amendments UNCHECKED (recorded gap)."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: no-pd-rule-found-default-copyrighted
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     three series.
   sources:
     - "https://oklahoma.gov/service/popular-services/license-plates.html  # Service Oklahoma's own license-plate page; footer reads 'Copyright (c) 2026 Service Oklahoma' — the only Oklahoma rights assertion located"
-    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): establishes that §105 does not reach the states and that Oklahoma is not among the states with a favourable rule; used to evidence an ABSENCE"
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): establishes that §105 does not reach the states and that Oklahoma is not among the states with a favourable rule; used to evidence an ABSENCE"
     - "https://oksenate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/os47.pdf  # 47 O.S. § 1113(B)(5)-(7): the state seal and the DOC badge mandated on the face of the OHP, OMD and DOC plates — the emblem exposure, in statute (an edict, and therefore itself PD)"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ us_standards:
     replacement_cycle: "AAMVA §1.1 recommends a replacement cycle 'not to exceed 7 to 10 years'. Oklahoma instead legislates a MINIMUM REISSUE INTERVAL of five years (§ 1113.2(H)) — a different mechanism answering a different question, and the contrast is the point."
     source: "https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf"
   state_retroreflectivity_statute: "47 O.S. § 1113(B)(3), verbatim: 'All license plates and decals shall be made with reflectorized material as a background to the letters, numbers and characters displayed thereon. The reflectorized material shall be of such a nature as to provide effective and dependable brightness during the service period for which the license plate or decal is issued.' Note Oklahoma legislates the PROPERTY (brightness for the service period) and not the measurement, exactly as AAMVA does not."
-  folklore_caution: "The '1956 AMA standardization agreement' remains COMMONLY REPEATED, UNSOURCED (PRD-PLATES §4). Oklahoma's statute states no plate dimensions at all — § 1113(A)(1) leaves size wholly to the agency: 'The license plate and decal shall be of such size, color, design and numbering as the Tax Commission may direct.'"
+  folklore_caution: "The '1956 AMA standardization agreement' remains COMMONLY REPEATED, UNSOURCED (the plates spec §4). Oklahoma's statute states no plate dimensions at all — § 1113(A)(1) leaves size wholly to the agency: 'The license plate and decal shall be of such size, color, design and numbering as the Tax Commission may direct.'"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Display rules. Oklahoma is a ONE-PLATE state with the truck-tractor inversion
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ series:
         light, or practice has moved past the 2016 wording, or the 2019 text read
         here has since been amended. The statute is quoted and the reported
         colours are recorded as observation only; the discrepancy is recorded,
-        not resolved (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+        not resolved (the plates spec §5.3).
       legend_top: "OKLAHOMA"
       legend_bottom: "IMAGINE THAT"
       legend_basis: locator-unconfirmed
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ series:
         renewal or $9 outside of their annual renewal at a local licensed
         operator."
       consequence: >-
-        THIS IS A PARALLEL-ISSUANCE SERIES IN THE PRD-PLATES §2.2 SENSE, stated
+        THIS IS A PARALLEL-ISSUANCE SERIES IN THE the plates spec §2.2 SENSE, stated
         by the authority rather than inferred. The 2017 base was mandatory-replace;
         the 2024 base is opt-in. Both are therefore lawfully current, both are
         being issued, and the periods overlap for real. That is exactly the
@@ -215,13 +215,13 @@ series:
       county abbreviation; the county-abbreviated decal is reported to have
       stopped being issued in 2024. So Oklahoma's geographic signal migrated
       serial -> sticker -> nothing over fifteen years. The historic decode table
-      is L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §7) and is deliberately not built here; it is
+      is L4 scope (the plates spec §7) and is deliberately not built here; it is
       flagged as a high-value `_decode/` candidate because it is one of the few
       genuine US serial-to-geography decodes that ever existed.
     sources:
       - "https://oklahoma.gov/service/popular-services/license-plates.html  # Service Oklahoma: 'Starting Sept. 1, 2024, Oklahoma's standard issue license plate will have a new design'; the Iconic Oklahoma Plate name; the NOT-automatically-reissued rule; $4 with renewal / $9 outside renewal"
       - "https://oksenate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/os47.pdf  # 47 O.S. § 1113(A)(1) size/colour/design/numbering delegated to the agency; § 1113(B)(3) reflectorized background; § 1113.2(G) contrast against a light-coloured background; § 1113.2(H) the five-year minimum reissue interval that permitted this base"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oklahoma  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the ABC-123 arrangement, the 'IMAGINE THAT' bottom legend, the red field with the star separator, and the PNU-001/PZJ-001-to-VXY-261 range as of 2025-11-08. None asserted as sourced."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oklahoma  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the ABC-123 arrangement, the 'IMAGINE THAT' bottom legend, the red field with the star separator, and the PNU-001/PZJ-001-to-VXY-261 range as of 2025-11-08. None asserted as sourced."
     notes: >-
       THE ICONIC OKLAHOMA PLATE. Its defining fact is administrative rather than
       visual: Oklahoma broke with its own precedent and did NOT force a fleet
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ series:
         format: { pattern: "LLL-999" }
       - name: "OKLAHOMA legend"
         period: { start: 2022, end: 2024 }
-        note: "same base, top legend changed to plain 'OKLAHOMA'; recorded as a VARIANT and not a series because format and period are continuous and only the legend text moves (PRD-PLATES §2.3). Both variants are locator-grade."
+        note: "same base, top legend changed to plain 'OKLAHOMA'; recorded as a VARIANT and not a series because format and period are continuous and only the legend text moves (the plates spec §2.3). Both variants are locator-grade."
         format: { pattern: "LLL-999" }
     statutory_origin:
       text: >-
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ series:
       plate because the class differs (military vs police in
       `_meta/classes.yml`), the assigner differs (Adjutant General vs badge
       number) and the serial WIDTH differs (fixed three vs open badge number) —
-      three independent reasons under PRD-PLATES §2.3, in adjacent statutory
+      three independent reasons under the plates spec §2.3, in adjacent statutory
       paragraphs.
 
   - id: us-ok-corrections
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ series:
       would destroy all of that.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX ONLY, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX ONLY, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-ok-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ series:
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      note: "one design per authorised program; individual designs are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per authorised program; individual designs are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here"
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
     program_index:
       count: null

data/data/plates/us-or.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-or.yml — Oregon (PRD-PLATES gate L2, northwest group).
+# plates/us-or.yml — Oregon (the plates spec gate L2, northwest group).
 #
 # THE ONE FACT THAT MAKES OREGON WORTH READING CAREFULLY. ORS 803.535 does not
 # describe the plate. It POINTS AT A DESIGN CONTEST: "The design of the
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@
 # bound on the current base — plates cannot predate the contest that chose
 # them. The commonly repeated November 1989 first-issue date is
 # encyclopedia-grade and is recorded as such, never asserted. This is exactly
-# the discipline PRD-PLATES §9 asks for: primary-source-or-marked.
+# the discipline the plates spec §9 asks for: primary-source-or-marked.
 #
 # SOURCE-ACCESS NOTE, RECORDED HONESTLY. www.oregonlegislature.gov refused TLS
 # from this environment on every attempt (curl exit 35, WebFetch ECONNRESET).
 # The ORS text below was therefore read from oregon.public.law, a third-party
 # reproduction. Oregon statutes are EDICTS OF GOVERNMENT and public domain at
-# every level (PRD-PLATES §4), so the reproduction carries the same text with
+# every level (the plates spec §4), so the reproduction carries the same text with
 # the same PD status — but the OFFICIAL citation is given first in every
 # source line, and re-verification against oregonlegislature.gov is an open
 # item for the verifier.
@@ -39,14 +39,14 @@ statute_edition: >-
   803.540.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# 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: asserted-trademark-copyright-unresearched
   basis: >-
     OREGON IS NOT ON EITHER SIDE OF THE SURVEYED LEDGER, AND SAYING SO IS THE
     HONEST ANSWER. Oregon appears NOWHERE in the standing per-state copyright
-    survey PRD-PLATES §4 works from — it is neither in the favourable column
+    survey the plates spec §4 works from — it is neither in the favourable column
     (FL, CA, NC, NJ, MA, GA) nor in the adverse column (NY, AZ, PA, WA) — and
     no {{PD-ORGov}} tag exists on Wikimedia Commons. So the DEFAULT applies:
     a US state's works are copyrighted unless that state says otherwise
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     adverse, which would overclaim, and not as unresearched, which would
     ignore the fetched assertion.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies to the Douglas fir, the
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies to the Douglas fir, the
     mountain silhouette and every special-background graphic. Note the
     additional Oregon-specific hazard: ORS 803.535 makes the design the
     winning entry of a 1987 PUBLIC CONTEST, which means an identifiable
@@ -133,11 +133,11 @@ series:
           1950s to avoid collision with the optional Oregon Trail plates, and
           the I and O blocks skipped since 2004 for confusion with the
           numerals 1 and 0 — are LOCATOR-GRADE and are deliberately NOT
-          encoded as a `regex_strict`, which PRD-PLATES §2.7 reserves for the
+          encoded as a `regex_strict`, which the plates spec §2.7 reserves for the
           authority's own alphabet.
       pattern_note: >-
         The group boundary is written as the separator-only class `[- ]`,
-        sanctioned by PRD-PLATES §2.8, because Oregon prints a GAP (not a
+        sanctioned by the plates spec §2.8, because Oregon prints a GAP (not a
         glyph) and no authority text names a separator character; `pattern`
         shows the canonical printed form with a space. There is no
         `regex_statutory`: ORS 803.535 states no outer bound to encode, which
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors803.html  # ORS 803.535: the 1987 contest design provision, the fully-reflectorized-safety-plate requirement, the 'distinctive number or characters ... and the word Oregon' legend rule, the size/form/arrangement delegation, and the identical-pair rule. Read via oregon.public.law (official host TLS-unreachable)."
       - "https://www.oregon.gov/odot/DMV/pages/vehicle/plates.aspx  # Oregon DMV's own plate estate: plate-option structure, the special-background fee chart pointer, and the plate imagery the observed colours are taken from"
       - "https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-Update.pdf  # AAMVA Ed.3 §2.2/§3.3 layout and retroreflectivity, adopted voluntarily; Oregon legislates the requirement without the metric"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oregon  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the reported February 2004 arrangement change, the reported serial ranges, and the reported A/I/O block exclusions. None is asserted as sourced here."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oregon  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the reported February 2004 arrangement change, the reported serial ranges, and the reported A/I/O block exclusions. None is asserted as sourced here."
     notes: >-
       OREGON STANDARD ISSUE, NUMERAL-LEADING. THE ID IS DELIBERATELY UNDATED
       for the us-fl-standard reason: `start: 2026` is the year the ORS was
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oregon  # LOCATOR ONLY: the letters-first arrangement and the reported February 2004 end. The end year is not asserted as sourced."
     notes: >-
       THE PREVIOUS OREGON ARRANGEMENT, ON THE SAME STATUTORY BASE. Modelled as
-      its own series because PRD-PLATES §2.3's test is format OR design OR
+      its own series because the plates spec §2.3's test is format OR design OR
       period, and the FORMAT differs. A parser needs both: an Oregon plate of
       unknown vintage on the fir base is either LLL 999 or 999 LLL. Distinct
       from us-or-standard in that this series is closed and letter-leading
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ series:
   # CORE DISTINCT CLASSES. Oregon separately serializes these — ORS 803.525
   # sources the PLATE COUNT for each, which is a real primary claim, while the
   # serial grammars are locator-grade, hence `recall-only` with widened
-  # regexes per PRD-PLATES §2.7.
+  # regexes per the plates spec §2.7.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-or-trailer
     class: trailer
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ series:
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, dimension_basis: convention-observed }
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      colour_note: "reported blue on gold — the pre-1989 Oregon colourway retained for exempt plates, i.e. an OLD BASE STILL IN ISSUE. Recorded because it is exactly the parallel-series case PRD-PLATES §2.2 warns about, but the claim is locator-grade."
+      colour_note: "reported blue on gold — the pre-1989 Oregon colourway retained for exempt plates, i.e. an OLD BASE STILL IN ISSUE. Recorded because it is exactly the parallel-series case the plates spec §2.2 warns about, but the claim is locator-grade."
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ series:
       instrument for the exempt series was located.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Count and official
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5. Count and official
   # links only; no individual designs (those are L4).
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-or-specialty-index
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ series:
           Oregon calls these SPECIAL BACKGROUND plates, and the name is the
           model: the serial arrangement is the ordinary one and only the
           background changes. Because per-programme grammars were not sourced
-          (individual specialty specs are L4 per PRD-PLATES §2.5), the index
+          (individual specialty specs are L4 per the plates spec §2.5), the index
           carries a deliberately wide union and is `recall-only`.
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, dimension_basis: convention-observed }
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Oregon  # LOCATOR ONLY: the reported 20-plus optional designs. NOT adopted as the count."
     notes: >-
       THE OREGON SPECIALTY INDEX — one entry standing for the whole programme,
-      per PRD-PLATES §2.5. The honest headline is a NEGATIVE result: Oregon
+      per the plates spec §2.5. The honest headline is a NEGATIVE result: Oregon
       publishes no programme count. Recording "unstated" with the reason beats
       importing a number from an encyclopedia, and the Special Background Fees
       Chart is the identified path to a real figure next pass.

data/data/plates/us-pa.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-pa.yml — Pennsylvania (PRD-PLATES gate L2, mid-Atlantic group).
+# plates/us-pa.yml — Pennsylvania (the plates spec gate L2, mid-Atlantic group).
 #
 # PENNSYLVANIA IS THE ONE STATE IN THIS GROUP WHOSE ADVERSE POSTURE IS IN
 # STATUTE. New York's is judicial and inferred; Pennsylvania's is a legislative
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 # characters, NO hyphen, with the Liberty Bell as a watermark BEHIND the
 # characters. The base it replaced reads ABC-1234. So Pennsylvania dropped the
 # printed separator at the 2025 base change, and this file spells each base's
-# separator as that base actually prints it (PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 2).
+# separator as that base actually prints it (the plates spec §2.6 rule 2).
 #
 # period_evidence / format_evidence vocabularies as in us-ny.yml.
 jurisdiction: us-pa
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "75 Pa.C.S. (Vehicles), Chapter 13, read 2026-08-02. The Pennsylvania General Assembly's own statute service (palegis.us) reset the connection on four attempts in this pass, so §§ 1331 and 1332 were read through a third-party reproduction of the consolidated statutes; edicts of government are public domain at every level so the text is freely usable, but a verifier should re-derive from palegis.us. Recorded gap."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: adverse-by-statute
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     returned 403 on both a WebFetch and a browser-user-agent curl, and
     palegis.us reset the connection repeatedly. The citation and the quoted
     clause come from the Wikipedia survey of subnational copyright status, which
-    is a LOCATOR under PRD-PLATES §4 and not an authority. The clause is quoted
+    is a LOCATOR under the plates spec §4 and not an authority. The clause is quoted
     here so a verifier knows exactly what to pull and can falsify it in one
     fetch. The conclusion should not be relied on for a render decision until
     the statute itself is in hand.
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ series:
         ABC0123 as seven contiguous characters with the Liberty Bell rendered as
         a watermark BEHIND them. The base it replaced printed ABC-1234 with a
         hyphen. Pennsylvania therefore dropped the printed separator at the 2025
-        base change, and PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 2 requires each base's regex to be
+        base change, and the plates spec §2.6 rule 2 requires each base's regex to be
         written in ITS OWN printed form — which is why this series has no hyphen
         in it and `us-pa-visitpa` does.
       progression: "reported to run MYR0200 onward, reaching NHJ 3386 as of 25 July 2026 (locator). Note the locator's own rendering of the later serial contains a space, which conflicts with PennDOT's contiguous sample; the conflict is recorded, not resolved."
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ series:
         letters and numbers'; PennDOT's own image of the same plate shows a
         distinctly CREAM ground, not white, with navy characters and DARK RED
         legends the alt text does not mention. The hex recorded is the observed
-        cream. PRD-PLATES §5.3 says record disagreements rather than average
+        cream. The plates spec §5.3 says record disagreements rather than average
         them, and this is a disagreement inside a single agency page.
       legend_top: "PENNSYLVANIA"
       legend_bottom: "LET FREEDOM RING"
@@ -189,10 +189,10 @@ series:
       - "https://www.pa.gov/en/agencies/dmv/vehicle-services/registration-plates/standard-issue-registration-plate.html  # PennDOT: the 'Liberty Bell style' standard plate, a June 2025 introduction, 'white background with large blue letters and numbers', the $14 replacement fee, the D/E/F reissuance front, and the official sample image showing the contiguous ABC0123 serial"
       - "https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-75-pacsa-vehicles/pa-csa-sect-75-1331.html  # § 1331(b) plate content; (d) reflectorizing; (f) the periodic reissuance program"
       - "https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-75-pacsa-vehicles/pa-csa-sect-75-1332.html  # § 1332(d) no validating stickers"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Pennsylvania  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): a MAY 2025 introduction, ABC1234, MYR0200 to NHJ 3386 as of 25 July 2026"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Pennsylvania  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): a MAY 2025 introduction, ABC1234, MYR0200 to NHJ 3386 as of 25 July 2026"
     notes: >-
       LET FREEDOM RING (2025-) — THE CURRENT PENNSYLVANIA STANDARD ISSUE.
-      DATE DISAGREEMENT, RECORDED NOT AVERAGED (PRD-PLATES §5.3): PennDOT's own
+      DATE DISAGREEMENT, RECORDED NOT AVERAGED (the plates spec §5.3): PennDOT's own
       page says JUNE 2025; the locator says MAY 2025. Both are written down;
       neither is split. `period.start: 2025` is safe under either. The design
       name also differs by source — PennDOT calls it the 'Liberty Bell style'
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ series:
       pattern: "LLL-9999"
       regex: '\A[A-Z]{3}-?\d{4}\z'
       charset: { notes: "as us-pa-let-freedom-ring: no statutory charset. Reported range KLF-0000 to MYR-0199, i.e. this base ran out exactly where the current one begins (MYR0200) - a clean, checkable boundary claim and the strongest era-inference signal in the file." }
-      pattern_note: "THIS base prints a hyphen. Written in its own printed form per PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 2; the separator-free twin is derived by the consumer, not shipped."
+      pattern_note: "THIS base prints a hyphen. Written in its own printed form per the plates spec §2.6 rule 2; the separator-free twin is derived by the consumer, not shipped."
     design:
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
       foreground: "#1B3A6B"
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ series:
       visitPA.com (2017-) — THE PREVIOUS BASE, WITH NO END YEAR ON PURPOSE.
       PennDOT states that third-party and non-Commonwealth vendors may still be
       issuing it, so closing the period would be a false claim: this is exactly
-      the parallel-issuance case PRD-PLATES §2.2 sanctions ('old stock issues
+      the parallel-issuance case the plates spec §2.2 sanctions ('old stock issues
       on'), and it is why this series and us-pa-let-freedom-ring overlap. The
       2004 base carried the same visitPA.com slogan and the same ABC-1234
       format, differing only in the absence of the state outline; it is NOT given
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ series:
           says 'this string has a shape Pennsylvania has issued to a motorcycle'
           and nothing more. PennDOT's own rule caps a personal motorcycle plate
           at five characters, which every one of the four arrangements satisfies.
-      pattern_note: "recall-only forbids a regex_strict (PRD-PLATES §2.7) and none is given. When a primary establishes which arrangement is current, this series splits and the union becomes a historic parent."
+      pattern_note: "recall-only forbids a regex_strict (the plates spec §2.7) and none is given. When a primary establishes which arrangement is current, this series splits and the union becomes a historic parent."
     design:
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
       legend_top: "PENNSYLVANIA"
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ series:
       pattern_note: >-
         WHY THE ALTERNATION AND NOT A LOOKAHEAD: bounding total length with a
         lookahead would require either an unescaped wildcard or a character class
-        MIXING separators with the serial alphabet, and PRD-PLATES §2.8 forbids
+        MIXING separators with the serial alphabet, and the plates spec §2.8 forbids
         the second while the lint rejects the first. The alternation is longer
         and is the only spelling that satisfies the separator contract, which is
         a small but real demonstration that §2.8's rule has teeth.
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ series:
       one that merely shapes.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-pa-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ series:
       charset: { notes: "specialty plates carry ordinary serials on an alternative design and PennDOT says 'the majority of which can be personalized', so the seven-character personalisation frame applies to most of them." }
     design:
       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_official: >-