vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/us-ut.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-ut.yml — Utah (PRD-PLATES gate L2, mountain group).
+# plates/us-ut.yml — Utah (the plates spec gate L2, mountain group).
 #
 # READ THE SOURCING CAVEAT FIRST, BECAUSE IT SHAPES EVERY ENTRY BELOW. Utah is
 # the ONE state in the mountain group whose STATUTE could not be read in this
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #      began RE-ISSUING SERIALS FROM A PREVIOUS RUN. A dataset that assumes a
 #      US state serial is issued once is now wrong about Utah.
 #
-# WHAT IS NOT HERE (PRD-PLATES §2.5): individual special-group DESIGNS.
+# WHAT IS NOT HERE (the plates spec §2.5): individual special-group DESIGNS.
 jurisdiction: us-ut
 authority:
   name: Utah State Tax Commission, Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   as a source.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched-leaning-adverse
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     Archives' website policies — the two places the equivalent assertion was
     found in Arizona. Both are cheap; neither was reachable here.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies, and under an unresearched posture
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies, and under an unresearched posture
     it applies at the strict end. Utah's plate identity is carried by DELICATE
     ARCH (a named natural feature inside Arches National Park, which raises a
     separate and unresearched federal question about depictions of national-park
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     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): where the § 63G-2-201 / § 63A-12-105 pointers were found. Neither section was read; nothing is asserted from this."
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): where the § 63G-2-201 / § 63A-12-105 pointers were found. Neither section was read; nothing is asserted from this."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The US standards chain.
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ series:
           not used, but its footnote for that assertion reads, in full,
           "Observing hundreds of plates over the past several months" — which is
           an editor's own observation, not a source of any kind. Under
-          PRD-PLATES §4 that is below even enthusiast-corroboration grade, so it
+          the plates spec §4 that is below even enthusiast-corroboration grade, so it
           is recorded here as a LEAD and deliberately kept out of
           `regex_strict`. Contrast Nevada, where the same exclusion is
           attributed to a published collector reference and IS encoded.
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ series:
       variants_note: >-
         Recorded as variants of ONE series rather than two series because they
         share the arrangement, the period and the issuing rule and differ only
-        in graphic — which is the colour-only-variant test in PRD-PLATES §2.3,
+        in graphic — which is the colour-only-variant test in the plates spec §2.3,
         applied to a graphic. The progression difference noted above is the
         argument for the other reading; it is recorded so a verifier can
         overturn this call with evidence rather than taste.
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ series:
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
       - "https://dmv.utah.gov/plates  # Utah DMV: 'Utah currently has four standard issue plates, plus four additional plates that are no longer issued, but are still valid for use on vehicles', naming In God We Trust, Life Elevated Skier, Life Elevated Arches and Off-Highway Vehicle"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Utah  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the 19 November 2007 introduction date, the A12 3BC arrangement, the divergent skier/arch progressions, the 2023 end of the original runs and the 2025 flat-printing and serial-reuse changes. None is asserted as sourced."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Utah  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the 19 November 2007 introduction date, the A12 3BC arrangement, the divergent skier/arch progressions, the 2023 end of the original runs and the 2025 flat-printing and serial-reuse changes. None is asserted as sourced."
       - "https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title41/Chapter1A/  # Utah Code Title 41 Chapter 1a Part 4 — PINNED, NOT READ"
     notes: >-
       UTAH'S PRINCIPAL STANDARD ISSUE. `period_evidence: corroboration-only`:
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ series:
       putting the SAME arrangement back into circulation on the SAME designs —
       which is continuation, not revival. If a verifier reads it as two runs,
       the honest shape is `ended: true` on a first entry plus a second dated
-      2025, and the PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6 alias contract covers the recut.
+      2025, and the quality spec I-5/I-6 alias contract covers the recut.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # CURRENT STANDARD ISSUE (2) — In God We Trust, a specialty plate promoted
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ series:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
       layout_rule: "five-character combination at the RIGHT of the plate; special group sticker at the LEFT; descriptive phrase along the BOTTOM (Utah DMV). A stated layout, which most states do not give at all, and directly usable as render constraints."
-      note: "one design per authorised group; the designs themselves are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per authorised group; the designs themselves are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here"
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder }
     program_index:
       count_measured: 63
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ series:
         `year_end_min:` case again, and the reason a US plates dataset cannot
         model only what is currently ORDERABLE.
       internal_discrepancy: >-
-        RECORDED, NOT RECONCILED (PRD-PLATES §5.3). The same DMV page says in
+        RECORDED, NOT RECONCILED (the plates spec §5.3). The same DMV page says in
         one paragraph that "Utah has three standard issue plates" and in the
         next that "Utah currently has four standard issue plates". Both
         sentences are quoted above from the same archived capture. The four-plate
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ series:
       - "https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title41/Chapter1A/  # Utah Code Title 41 Chapter 1a Part 4 and § 41-1a-418 — PINNED, NOT READ"
     notes: >-
       THE SPECIAL-GROUP PROGRAM INDEX — one entry for the whole programme, per
-      PRD-PLATES §2.5. IT IS THE STRONGEST ENTRY IN THIS FILE despite the file's
+      the plates spec §2.5. IT IS THE STRONGEST ENTRY IN THIS FILE despite the file's
       weak statutory base, because the Division states the serial LENGTH and the
       plate LAYOUT in its own words, which is more than Florida, Colorado,
       Nevada or Arizona do for their specialty programmes. The gap that remains

data/data/plates/us-va.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-va.yml — Virginia (PRD-PLATES gate L2, group southeast-a).
+# plates/us-va.yml — Virginia (the plates spec gate L2, group southeast-a).
 #
 # THE VIRGINIA FINDING, stated first because it governs every other claim in
 # this file: VIRGINIA'S PLATE STATUTE SPECIFIES ALMOST NOTHING. § 46.2-712(A)
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #                                   a collector reference. Recorded WITH its
 #                                   grade attached, asserted as nothing more.
 #                                   This is labelling, not laundering: the
-#                                   PRD forbids passing collector era tables
+#                                   the spec forbids passing collector era tables
 #                                   off as sourced years, and every such year
 #                                   in this file is marked at the point of use.
 #
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ binding: vehicle
 statute_edition: "Code of Virginia, Title 46.2 (Motor Vehicles), Chapter 6 (Titling and Registration), Articles 9-11 and Chapter 15 — section pages as served by law.lis.virginia.gov and stamped 8/1/2026"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: no-public-domain-basis-located
@@ -69,11 +69,11 @@ artwork_risk:
     domain at every level regardless of the footer notice on the site that
     serves it. Everything this file cites to § 46.2-711 through § 46.2-750 is
     therefore freely usable even under the adverse default — which is exactly
-    why PRD-PLATES §4 makes the statute the preferred source. The problem in
+    why the plates spec §4 makes the statute the preferred source. The problem in
     Virginia is not that the statute is unusable; it is that the statute says
     so little (see the header).
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies without qualification: render
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies without qualification: render
     `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`. The "VIRGINIA IS FOR
     LOVERS" wordmark on the current base is a registered tourism brand of the
     Commonwealth used far beyond plates, which is a TRADEMARK question on top
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ series:
       separator_note: >-
           The hyphen is written because the plate prints one. `-?` makes it
           optional so a separator-stripping consumer's canonical form still
-          matches without deriving a twin (PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 2 keeps the
+          matches without deriving a twin (the plates spec §2.6 rule 2 keeps the
           PRINTED form here; the optionality is a convenience, not a claim
           that Virginia sometimes omits the hyphen).
     design:
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter6/section46.2-712/  # § 46.2-712(A): what the plate must display (registration number, name of the Commonwealth, year or month-and-year); the discretion clause that leaves size, letters, numerals and ALL colour to the Commissioner; the decal rule"
       - "https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter6/section46.2-711/  # § 46.2-711(A): two plates for this class of vehicle"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Virginia  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the March 2014 start, the ABC-1234 arrangement, the VIRGINIA IS FOR LOVERS slogan and heart, the V/U/T/S serial blocks and the reverse progression. None of it is asserted as sourced."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Virginia  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the March 2014 start, the ABC-1234 arrangement, the VIRGINIA IS FOR LOVERS slogan and heart, the V/U/T/S serial blocks and the reverse progression. None of it is asserted as sourced."
     notes: >-
       VIRGINIA CURRENT STANDARD ISSUE. THE PERIOD AND THE FORMAT ARE BOTH
       LOCATOR-GRADE AND SAID SO. Virginia is the clearest case in this group of
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ series:
       foreground: "#1F3D7A"
       legend_top: "VIRGINIA"
       legend_bottom: null
-      legend_note: "SLOGAN-FREE. This base is reported as a return to the 1993 design: embossed dark blue serial on reflective white, 'VIRGINIA' screened in blue at the top, and nothing at the bottom. The design difference from the current base is exactly one slogan, which under PRD-PLATES §2.3 (own series iff format OR design OR period differs) makes it its own series."
+      legend_note: "SLOGAN-FREE. This base is reported as a return to the 1993 design: embossed dark blue serial on reflective white, 'VIRGINIA' screened in blue at the top, and nothing at the bottom. The design difference from the current base is exactly one slogan, which under the plates spec §2.3 (own series iff format OR design OR period differs) makes it its own series."
       emblem: { present: false }
       rear_differs: false
     region_encoding: none
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ series:
 
   # =========================================================================
   # PERSONALIZED. Virginia officially permits a glyph inside the serial —
-  # a PRD-PLATES §2.6 schema-amendment candidate, not a data entry.
+  # a the plates spec §2.6 schema-amendment candidate, not a data entry.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-va-personalized
     class: personalized
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ series:
           numbers and the special characters DASH, SPACE AND AMPERSAND." Dash
           and space are emitted separators and are already in the contract.
           THE AMPERSAND IS NOT: it is not in the serial alphabet, it is not a
-          separator, and under PRD-PLATES §2.6 a jurisdiction that prints a
+          separator, and under the plates spec §2.6 a jurisdiction that prints a
           glyph INSIDE a serial is a SCHEMA AMENDMENT, not a data entry. So
           the regex above cannot represent the ampersand-bearing subset of
           Virginia personalized plates and does not try to. `matching: strict`
@@ -493,14 +493,14 @@ series:
       is a format property. The headline is the ampersand: this is the first
       of two independent, officially-sourced US findings in group southeast-a
       of a state permitting a non-alphanumeric glyph inside a serial (North
-      Carolina is the other, and its set is wider). PRD-PLATES §2.6 anticipated
+      Carolina is the other, and its set is wider). The plates spec §2.6 anticipated
       exactly this case and prescribed the remedy — an amendment to
       _meta/separators.yml's `never_separator` list, with sources, so every
       consumer learns it in one place. That amendment is proposed in the group
       dossier and is NOT made unilaterally here.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.5). Counts and official
+  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (the plates spec §2.5). Counts and official
   # links; no individual designs.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-va-specialty-index
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ 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: 340
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ series:
       - "https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter6/section46.2-725/  # § 46.2-725: special license plates, generally — the frame the per-programme sections hang off"
     notes: >-
       THE VIRGINIA SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry standing for the whole
-      programme, which is what PRD-PLATES §2.5 asks for at this gate. Two
+      programme, which is what the plates spec §2.5 asks for at this gate. Two
       things to carry forward. First, the count is EXACT and RECONCILED (340,
       facets summing to 340) rather than the "over 100"-style estimate every
       other state in this group publishes, because DMV exposes it through a

data/data/plates/us-vi.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-vi.yml — United States Virgin Islands (PRD-PLATES gate L2, territories).
+# plates/us-vi.yml — United States Virgin Islands (the plates spec gate L2, territories).
 #
 # THE SOURCING SITUATION HERE IS THE INVERSE OF GUAM'S, AND IT IS STATED UP
 # FRONT BECAUSE IT SHAPES EVERY ENTRY BELOW. Guam's statute is fully reachable
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@
 # WHAT WE HAVE INSTEAD IS BETTER THAN USUAL FOR A DESIGN QUESTION: the VI Bureau
 # of Motor Vehicles publishes its own plate announcements, and its March 2023
 # notice gives a HARD EFFECTIVE DATE for the current base from the issuing
-# agency itself. That is a primary source of exactly the kind PRD-PLATES §4
+# agency itself. That is a primary source of exactly the kind the plates spec §4
 # ranks second only to statute — and it is why the USVI is the only jurisdiction
 # in the territories group whose current AND previous standard bases are both
 # minted as dated series.
 #
-# 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-vi
 authority:
   name: United States Virgin Islands Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV)
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   marked as such.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# 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
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     its evidence grades are lower than Guam's or Puerto Rico's despite the USVI
     having the single best-dated series in the group.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies without exception to the 175TH
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies without exception to the 175TH
     EMANCIPATION LOGO and to the Virgin Islands coat of arms. Render
     `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}` and do not revisit until a
     USVI government-works copyright posture is affirmatively established.
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ series:
           exclusions common in US states) was obtainable, so none is claimed.
       pattern_note: >-
         `regex` is the round-trippable printed form and carries no charset
-        restriction, per PRD-PLATES §2.7. `regex_strict` adds the one restriction
+        restriction, per the plates spec §2.7. `regex_strict` adds the one restriction
         that IS attested — the island prefix — and is contained in `regex` by
         construction. There is no `regex_statutory` because Title 20 VIC could not
         be obtained and therefore no outer legal bound is known.
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ series:
         teal top stripe, white middle stripe, gold bottom stripe, with black
         embossed serials and the 175th Emancipation logo centred. "Teal" and
         "gold" are colour NAMES from a locator, not values from a spec, and
-        inventing hexes for them would be exactly the laundering PRD-PLATES §9
+        inventing hexes for them would be exactly the laundering the plates spec §9
         warns about. Recorded as descriptions; hexes await a BMV or Title 20
         source.
       legend_top: "U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS"
@@ -203,8 +203,8 @@ series:
       - "https://bmv.vi.gov/2023/03/03/2023-emancipation-license-plates/  # THE PRIMARY DATE SOURCE: BMV's own notice — effective March 1 2023, the plates are MANDATORY, temporary-plate holders exchange at no cost by appointment, all other vehicles receive them at annual renewal, old plates must be surrendered before renewal completes, free at 65 and over, $49 for personalised, collected in person"
       - "https://bmv.vi.gov/fees/  # BMV's published fee schedule — Personalized Plates $49.00, Registration Cancellation $12.00, Moving Permit $20.00, Certificates of Title $54.00 (free for seniors)"
       - "https://bmv.vi.gov/vehicles/  # the plate-and-sticker surrender rule on cancellation, and the Title 20 § 335 transfer/voiding rule quoted second-hand"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the CAB 123 / TAB 123 / JAB 123 arrangement, the C/T/J island prefixes and the 1975 introduction of J, the teal/white/gold banded design with the 175th Emancipation logo, and 12x6 in aluminium construction"
-      - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Virgin_Islands/viy2k.html  # CORROBORATION (PRD-PLATES §4): a photograph captioned 'New Virgin Islands standard license plate issued in 2023 - 175th Anniversary of Emancipation', which independently confirms BMV's date and design name. No licence statement on the site; no image or text copied"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the CAB 123 / TAB 123 / JAB 123 arrangement, the C/T/J island prefixes and the 1975 introduction of J, the teal/white/gold banded design with the 175th Emancipation logo, and 12x6 in aluminium construction"
+      - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Virgin_Islands/viy2k.html  # CORROBORATION (the plates spec §4): a photograph captioned 'New Virgin Islands standard license plate issued in 2023 - 175th Anniversary of Emancipation', which independently confirms BMV's date and design name. No licence statement on the site; no image or text copied"
     notes: >-
       USVI STANDARD ISSUE, CURRENT BASE — AND THE BEST-DATED SERIES IN THE
       TERRITORIES GROUP. `period_evidence: agency-instrument-date` is a real
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ series:
       AS AN OVERLAP: because the new plates were issued at each vehicle's annual
       renewal rather than in a single swap, the 2016 base remained lawfully on the
       road throughout 2023 and beyond. That is precisely the parallel-issuance
-      case PRD-PLATES §2.2 sanctions, and the two series overlap deliberately.
+      case the plates spec §2.2 sanctions, and the two series overlap deliberately.
 
   - id: us-vi-standard-2016
     class: standard
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands  # LOCATOR ONLY: the April 2016 start of this base and its February 2023 end. The START is locator-grade and is NOT corroborated by any agency source"
       - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Virgin_Islands/viy2k.html  # CORROBORATION: dated photographs of VI plates in use in 2017, 2018 and September 2019, which place a distinct base in circulation across this window without fixing either boundary"
     notes: >-
-      THE PREVIOUS USVI STANDARD BASE — the "one series back" PRD-PLATES §7 asks
+      THE PREVIOUS USVI STANDARD BASE — the "one series back" the plates spec §7 asks
       for at L2. ITS TWO BOUNDARIES HAVE DIFFERENT EVIDENCE GRADES AND THE FIELD
       SAYS SO: `period_evidence: mixed-locator-start-agency-end`. The END is
       anchored by BMV's own mandatory-replacement notice and is a real claim; the
@@ -333,12 +333,12 @@ series:
     design: { plate: { note: "reduced size; no dimension sourced" }, emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder } }
     region_encoding: { scheme: island-prefix, note: "presumed to share the C/T/J prefix; NOT verified for this class", evidence: unverified }
     sources:
-      - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Virgin_Islands/viy2k.html  # CORROBORATION ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): photographs of US Virgin Islands MOTORCYCLE plates with 2014 and 2017 expirations, establishing that a separately-issued motorcycle plate exists. No format, colour or dimension is claimed from a photograph"
+      - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Virgin_Islands/viy2k.html  # CORROBORATION ONLY (the plates spec §4): photographs of US Virgin Islands MOTORCYCLE plates with 2014 and 2017 expirations, establishing that a separately-issued motorcycle plate exists. No format, colour or dimension is claimed from a photograph"
     notes: >-
       USVI MOTORCYCLE PLATES. THE WEAKEST-EVIDENCED SERIES IN THIS FILE, and
       flagged accordingly: its entire basis is two dated photographs on an
       enthusiast site with no licence statement. It is minted rather than dropped
-      for one reason — PRD-PLATES §7's L2 scope names motorcycle as a core class
+      for one reason — the plates spec §7's L2 scope names motorcycle as a core class
       to spec where the jurisdiction separately serialises it, and a series with
       citations and an explicit `recall-only` matcher is more useful to a consumer
       than silence. `period: {start: 2026}` is a read-date upper bound and carries
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ series:
       structural fact that a fee schedule alone would never surface.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — INDEX ONLY, per PRD-PLATES §2.5.
+  # SPECIALTY — INDEX ONLY, per the plates spec §2.5.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-vi-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ series:
       charset: { notes: "specialty plates are presumed to carry ordinary island-prefixed serials on alternative designs; not verified" }
       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_official: null
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ series:
       - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Virgin_Islands/viy2k.html  # CORROBORATION + GAP-FINDER: dated photographs of the five sponsored programmes listed above. No image or text copied; used only to establish that the channel is populated"
     notes: >-
       THE SPECIALTY PROGRAM INDEX — one entry standing for the whole programme,
-      per PRD-PLATES §2.5. THE HONEST HEADLINE IS THAT THIS INDEX HAS NO COUNT.
+      per the plates spec §2.5. THE HONEST HEADLINE IS THAT THIS INDEX HAS NO COUNT.
       Florida's index records a contested count from two sources; Guam's and Puerto
       Rico's record exact statutory counts; the USVI's records that the issuing
       agency publishes nothing at all and that the pricing sits with third-party

data/data/plates/us-vt.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/us-vt.yml — Vermont (PRD-PLATES gate L2, northeast group).
+# plates/us-vt.yml — Vermont (the plates spec gate L2, northeast group).
 #
 # VERMONT DELEGATES MORE COMPLETELY THAN ANY OTHER STATE IN THIS GROUP. 23 V.S.A.
 # § 304(a), verbatim: "The number plate or plates issued shall be OF THE MATERIAL,
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   § 13, eff. November 1, 2023".
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched-with-one-statutory-signal
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     nothing at all about the STATE's rights in the plates it designs itself, so it
     does not resolve the general posture in either direction.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies. The current base carries no state
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies. The current base carries no state
     seal; the 1985-1989 base carried a screened sugar maple. Vermont state-emblem
     protection independent of copyright is unresearched (recorded gap). For
     ORGANIZATION plates, § 304(b)(2)(B) makes it the organization's own warranty
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ series:
     sources:
       - "https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/23/007/00304  # 23 V.S.A. § 304(a): the Commissioner assigns a distinctive number and determines material, size, shape, colour and the numerals or letters; plates reflectorized in part or in whole; delivered free of charge"
       - "https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/23/007/00511  # § 511(a): display of one or two plates as the Commissioner requires, unobscured, horizontal, non-swinging"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Vermont  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the 1 January 1990 green base, the ABC 123 arrangement, the I/J/O/Q/U exclusion, the January 2024 admission of V and Z beginning with KPV, the intermingled AAB 100 to BNF 999 stretch and the exclusive BNG 100 to KXA 509 range as of 11 May 2025, and the narrow serial dies"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Vermont  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the 1 January 1990 green base, the ABC 123 arrangement, the I/J/O/Q/U exclusion, the January 2024 admission of V and Z beginning with KPV, the intermingled AAB 100 to BNF 999 stretch and the exclusive BNG 100 to KXA 509 range as of 11 May 2025, and the narrow serial dies"
       - "https://www.licenseplates.cc/VT  # enthusiast corroboration, cited because used: the reported serial high-water mark. No text or image copied"
     notes: >-
       VERMONT STANDARD ISSUE — thirty-six years on one base, the longest run in
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ series:
       every plate dataset; ALPHABET changes on an unchanged format are not, and a
       regex_strict written against the pre-2024 alphabet would now reject valid
       current plates. This is the strongest concrete argument in the northeast
-      group for PRD-PLATES §2.7's insistence that `regex` carry the
+      group for the plates spec §2.7's insistence that `regex` carry the
       round-trippable shape and `regex_strict` carry the alphabet SEPARATELY: when
       an alphabet moves, only the twin needs revising, and consumers that never
       adopted the twin are unaffected.
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ series:
       STATUS — replacements on one, new registrations on the other — before
       abandoning both for ABC 123 on 1 January 1990. Parallel issuance allocated
       by administrative category rather than by sequence is exactly the "parallel
-      series are REAL" case PRD-PLATES §2.2 has overlap-with-distinct-notes
+      series are REAL" case the plates spec §2.2 has overlap-with-distinct-notes
       semantics for, and it is recorded here as one series with the split stated
       rather than as two, because no primary bounds either half.
 
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Vermont  # LOCATOR ONLY: the Municipal series on a red base with the 'MUN' marker, sharing the ABC 123 grammar from AAA100, serials starting AA or AB"
     notes: >-
       MUNICIPAL — Vermont's government class. It is a genuine test of
-      PRD-PLATES §2.3's series rule: format IDENTICAL to the passenger series,
+      the plates spec §2.3's series rule: format IDENTICAL to the passenger series,
       period identical, and the only differences are colour and a class marker.
       §2.3 says a COLOUR-ONLY variant of the same format and period is a
       sub-entry, not a series. This is given its own series anyway, because the
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ series:
       merge is mechanical and the id can alias.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.5).
+  # SPECIALTY — PROGRAM INDEX ONLY (the plates spec §2.5).
   # =========================================================================
   - id: us-vt-specialty-index
     class: specialty
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ series:
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in }
       background: { finish: retroreflective }
-      note: "one design per authorised organization; individual designs are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is described here"
+      note: "one design per authorised organization; individual designs are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is described here"
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, note: "and see artwork_risk — § 304(b)(2)(B) makes the ORGANIZATION warrant its right to use its emblem, so the state has expressly not vouched for it" }
     program_index:
       model: >-

data/data/plates/us-wa.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# plates/us-wa.yml — Washington (PRD-PLATES gate L2, northwest group).
+# plates/us-wa.yml — Washington (the plates spec gate L2, northwest group).
 #
 # WHY WASHINGTON IS THE HARD CASE OF THIS GROUP. Two independent reasons, and
 # both are sourced below rather than assumed. First, IP: Washington is one of
-# the four states PRD-PLATES §4 names as adverse, and this pass confirms it
+# the four states the plates spec §4 names as adverse, and this pass confirms it
 # from the state's own instruments — the issuing agency stamps its web estate
 # "© Washington State Department of Licensing" and the Legislature's own site
 # carries "Copyright 2025. All Rights Reserved." Second, and far more
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 # unusually good: plate counts per vehicle type, display geometry, the
 # unlawful-acts list, and a replacement trigger that is not a clock.
 #
-# PERIOD DISCIPLINE (PRD-PLATES §9, and the standing rule for this wave).
+# PERIOD DISCIPLINE (the plates spec §9, and the standing rule for this wave).
 # Washington publishes no design changelog. Every era boundary below that came
 # from an enthusiast/encyclopedia table carries
 # `period_evidence: secondary-locator-only` and a `period_caveat` saying in
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ statute_edition: >-
   noted.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by PRD-PLATES §4/§7.1.
+# artwork_risk — required per jurisdiction by the plates spec §4/§7.1.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: adverse
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     reading of Washington's own posture would clear only a minority of the
     artwork on Washington plates.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder default applies to EVERY Washington emblem and
+    the plates spec §3's placeholder default applies to EVERY Washington emblem and
     graphic without exception, including the Mount Rainier motif on the
     standard base. Render `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}` and
     do not revisit per-emblem for the special-plate tier at all — the owners
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     - "https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=46.18.200  # RCW 46.18.200(2): the statutory special-plate table, quoted above, naming third-party logos and likenesses as the plate artwork"
     - "https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=46.16A.200  # RCW 46.16A.200(1)(f): 'special license plate series approved by the department and enacted into law by the legislature may display a symbol or artwork approved by the department' — the department approves; it does not thereby own"
     - "https://dol.wa.gov/vehicles-and-boats/vehicles/license-plates  # fetched 2026-08-02; footer notice reads '© Washington State Department of Licensing'"
-    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): 'Works created by the State of Washington are copyrighted...' — used to locate the posture, not to establish it"
+    - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): 'Works created by the State of Washington are copyrighted...' — used to locate the posture, not to establish it"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The US standards chain. Recorded per state because adoption is VOLUNTARY and
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ series:
           exclusion list anywhere in RCW 46.16A. The reported exclusion of
           I, O and Q from the third letter position of the current series is
           LOCATOR-GRADE ONLY and is deliberately NOT encoded as a
-          `regex_strict`: a strict twin is defined by PRD-PLATES §2.7 as the
+          `regex_strict`: a strict twin is defined by the plates spec §2.7 as the
           AUTHORITY's own alphabet, and no authority has stated one.
       progression: >-
         LOCATOR-GRADE, NOT ASSERTED: the encyclopedia record reports the
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ series:
         arrangement, corroborated by DOL's own plate imagery and by the
         encyclopedia record. It is written with an OPTIONAL space (` ?`)
         because Washington prints the group boundary as a kerning gap rather
-        than a glyph — PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 2 requires the printed form.
+        than a glyph — the plates spec §2.6 rule 2 requires the printed form.
         There is NO `regex_statutory`: Washington's statute states no outer
         bound to be encoded, which is itself the finding.
     design:
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ series:
         arrangement and with the serial block simply continuing. No DOL
         instrument announcing it was located in this pass. Because the format
         and the period are unchanged and only the manufacturing method and
-        hue moved, PRD-PLATES §2.3 would in any case make this a sub-entry
+        hue moved, the plates spec §2.3 would in any case make this a sub-entry
         rather than a series — and on this evidence it is not even that. It
         is recorded here so a verifier knows exactly what to chase.
     replacement_rule:
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ series:
       - "https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=46.16A.200  # (1)(a)-(f) design delegation, state-name requirement, reflectorization, artwork approval; (2) the pre-1968 reflectorization carve-out; (4)(a) plate counts; (8) transfer and its seven exceptions; (9) the event-triggered replacement duty; (10) the three never-replaced classes; (12) tabs and emblems"
       - "https://dol.wa.gov/vehicles-and-boats/vehicles/license-plates  # DOL's own plate estate: the standard/custom/replacement service structure 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 §1.1, the 7-10 year recommendation Washington declined to legislate"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Washington_(state)  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4): the reported 2010 arrangement change, the reported October 2024 flat-plate transition, the reported I/O/Q exclusion and the reported serial ranges. None is asserted as sourced here."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Washington_(state)  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4): the reported 2010 arrangement change, the reported October 2024 flat-plate transition, the reported I/O/Q exclusion and the reported serial ranges. None is asserted as sourced here."
     notes: >-
       WASHINGTON STANDARD ISSUE. THE ID IS DELIBERATELY UNDATED, for the same
       reason us-fl-standard is: Washington law fixes no design generation, DOL
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ series:
       UPPER BOUND on the true start; Washington has issued three-letter /
       four-numeral plates for well over a decade. When a departmental
       instrument lands, a dated id is added and this id becomes its former-id
-      alias under the PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6 contract. THE STRUCTURAL FINDING
+      alias under the quality spec I-5/I-6 contract. THE STRUCTURAL FINDING
       WORTH CARRYING: Washington delegates the whole design to the director by
       statute, so unlike Florida, Montana and Wyoming there is no statutory
       design text to mine — the primary-source ceiling for Washington plate
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ series:
           in the 1987-1998 sub-range is locator-grade and is not encoded.
       pattern_note: >-
         The group boundary is spelled as the separator-only class `[- ]`,
-        which PRD-PLATES §2.8 sanctions, because the printed boundary on this
+        which the plates spec §2.8 sanctions, because the printed boundary on this
         base is a gap on some issues and a dash-like element on others and no
         authority text settles it. `pattern` shows the canonical printed form
         with a space.
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Washington_(state)  # LOCATOR ONLY: the 999-LLL arrangement and both boundary years, neither asserted as sourced"
     notes: >-
       THE PREVIOUS WASHINGTON BASE ARRANGEMENT. Kept as its own series because
-      the FORMAT differs from the current one, which is the PRD-PLATES §2.3
+      the FORMAT differs from the current one, which is the plates spec §2.3
       test, and because a parser needs it: a Washington plate of unknown
       vintage is either 999-LLL or LLL9999 and nothing else. Its period is the
       weakest data in this file and says so on its face. Distinct from
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ series:
 
   # =========================================================================
   # CORE DISTINCT CLASSES. Washington separately serializes these; the formats
-  # are LOCATOR-GRADE, so each is `recall-only` per PRD-PLATES §2.7 — a match
+  # are LOCATOR-GRADE, so each is `recall-only` per the plates spec §2.7 — a match
   # is a shape hit and nothing more, and the regexes are deliberately widened
   # so that recall-only is the honest description rather than a hedge.
   # =========================================================================
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ series:
       only place in the group where the mounting geometry bends for a class.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per PRD-PLATES §2.5. Washington is the one
+  # SPECIALTY — THE PROGRAM INDEX, per the plates spec §2.5. Washington is the one
   # state in this group whose specialty programme is ENUMERATED IN STATUTE,
   # which makes its index unusually strong and its count unusually contested.
   # =========================================================================
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ series:
           Washington special plates do NOT all carry the standard passenger
           arrangement — several run their own shorter serials. Because no
           per-programme grammar was sourced (individual specialty specs are L4
-          per PRD-PLATES §2.5), the index carries a deliberately wide union
+          per the plates spec §2.5), the index carries a deliberately wide union
           and is `recall-only`. A match says "this string could sit on some
           Washington special plate" and nothing more.
     design:
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ series:
         forces", so the statutory table describes at least 54 designs.
       count_agency: "approximately 89 plates across eleven categories on DOL's own special-design gallery (U.S. Armed Forces, Military Services and Veterans, Charitable Organizations, Collector Vehicles, Colleges and Universities, First Responders, Parks and Nature, Special Interest, Sports, Tribal, Miscellaneous)"
       count_discrepancy_note: >-
-        THE COUNTS ARE NOT RECONCILED AND ARE NOT AVERAGED (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+        THE COUNTS ARE NOT RECONCILED AND ARE NOT AVERAGED (the plates spec §5.3).
         The statute enumerates 49; DOL's gallery shows roughly 89. The gap is
         structural rather than an error: the DOL gallery mixes in plate types
         authorised elsewhere in Title 46 (Medal of Honor, Former Prisoner of
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ series:
       - "https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=46.16A.200  # (1)(f): special series may display a symbol or artwork approved by the department"
     notes: >-
       THE WASHINGTON SPECIALTY INDEX — one entry standing for the whole
-      programme, which is what PRD-PLATES §2.5 asks for at this gate. Two
+      programme, which is what the plates spec §2.5 asks for at this gate. Two
       things worth carrying forward. First, Washington is the rare state whose
       specialty catalogue is a STATUTORY TABLE rather than an agency list,
       which means the index is citable to an edict of government and is