vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/au-sa.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/au-sa.yml — South Australia (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Australia).
+# plates/au-sa.yml — South Australia (the plates spec gate L3, Australia).
 #
 # SOUTH AUSTRALIA IS THE JURISDICTION WHERE THE BEST SOURCE IS TWENTY-TWO
 # YEARS OLD. The current Department for Infrastructure and Transport pages,
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 # Internet Archive holds no snapshot of the Motor Vehicles Regulations' view
 # URL. NO SOUTH AUSTRALIAN INSTRUMENT IS QUOTED IN THIS FILE. The display rules
 # below come from the department's own public page, which is a primary
-# authority publication (PRD-PLATES §4) but is not the instrument.
+# authority publication (the plates spec §4) but is not the instrument.
 #
 # LICENCE NOTE, recorded because it is unusually clean: SA.GOV.AU states on
 # every page, verbatim, "SA.GOV.AU is licensed under a Creative Commons
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ series:
     period: { start: 2008 }        # SECONDARY, AND CONTESTED — the locator
                                    # says 2008, an independent enthusiast
                                    # reference says 2009. Both recorded, not
-                                   # averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+                                   # averaged (the plates spec §5.3).
     period_evidence: secondary-locator-unverified
     matching: strict
     format:
@@ -134,13 +134,13 @@ series:
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/20041206044325/http://www.transport.sa.gov.au/registrations/number_plates/alpha.asp  # Transport SA 'Alpha-numeric plates (general issue)', captured 6 December 2004 (accessed 2026-08-02): black characters on a reflective white background, the then slogan 'SA - The Festival State', the once-only fee and the transfer/agreement rule. The ONLY South Australian government page found that describes the general issue at all"
-      - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/South_Australia/southaustralia.htm  # enthusiast reference (PRD-PLATES §4 corroboration class), accessed 2026-08-02: a photo-dated plate captioned 'Current since 2009, South Australia license plate (June 2013)' and another captioned 'South Australia special graphics plate used up until 2008'. Corroborates a changeover in the 2008-2009 window and DISAGREES with the locator on the year"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_South_Australia  # LOCATOR ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4), accessed 2026-08-02: the S-prefixed seven-character arrangement and a 2008 changeover. Uncited in the article; used as a finding aid and flagged"
+      - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/South_Australia/southaustralia.htm  # enthusiast reference (the plates spec §4 corroboration class), accessed 2026-08-02: a photo-dated plate captioned 'Current since 2009, South Australia license plate (June 2013)' and another captioned 'South Australia special graphics plate used up until 2008'. Corroborates a changeover in the 2008-2009 window and DISAGREES with the locator on the year"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_South_Australia  # LOCATOR ONLY (the plates spec §4), accessed 2026-08-02: the S-prefixed seven-character arrangement and a 2008 changeover. Uncited in the article; used as a finding aid and flagged"
     notes: >-
       SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S CURRENT GENERAL ISSUE, WITH ITS START YEAR IN DISPUTE
       AND THE DISPUTE RECORDED RATHER THAN SPLIT. The locator says the previous
       series ran to 2008; an independent enthusiast reference captions a
-      photo-dated plate "Current since 2009". PRD-PLATES §5.3 forbids averaging
+      photo-dated plate "Current since 2009". The plates spec §5.3 forbids averaging
       disagreements, so the value carried is the locator's 2008 and this note
       states the competing 2009 claim in terms. Either way the changeover sits
       in a two-year window and neither source is the department. THE FORMAT IS
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ series:
           also exactly the width of the general issue, which is a consistent
           picture rather than a coincidence. `matching: strict` is earned: the
           regex is the authority's own stated frame, not a catch-all.
-      note: "the service also offers numeric, historical, R&S-series, Japanese-style, Euro-style, premium and corporate ranges; those are DESIGN catalogues on the same serial frame and are out of scope at this gate (PRD-PLATES §2.5)"
+      note: "the service also offers numeric, historical, R&S-series, Japanese-style, Euro-style, premium and corporate ranges; those are DESIGN catalogues on the same serial frame and are out of scope at this gate (the plates spec §2.5)"
     design:
       note: "one design per range; individual personalised designs are L4 scope"
     programme:

data/data/plates/au-tas.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/au-tas.yml — Tasmania (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Australia).
+# plates/au-tas.yml — Tasmania (the plates spec gate L3, Australia).
 #
 # THIS FILE CARRIES THE SENTENCE THAT EXPLAINS THE WHOLE AUSTRALIAN WAVE.
 # Vehicle and Traffic (Driver Licensing and Vehicle Registration) Regulations
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ instrument:
     allowing everything else except /admin/. This pass made a small number of
     targeted, user-directed retrievals of the single instrument cited here
     rather than any crawl, and did not fetch any other Tasmanian statute.
-  licence: "Tasmanian legislation published by the Tasmanian Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Edicts of government — quoted, never embedded (PRD-PLATES §4)"
+  licence: "Tasmanian legislation published by the Tasmanian Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Edicts of government — quoted, never embedded (the plates spec §4)"
 
 national_schemes:
   heavy_vehicle: >-
@@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ series:
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
       - "https://www.legislation.tas.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/sr-2021-026  # the Regulations, cited here for the NEGATIVE finding that anchors this series' evidence grade: reg 88(1) empowers the Registrar to assign a 'distinguishing registration number' and prescribes nothing about its composition (accessed 2026-08-02)"
-      - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Tasmania/tasmania.htm  # enthusiast reference (PRD-PLATES §4 corroboration class), accessed 2026-08-02: photo-dated Tasmanian plates from 2016 to 2024 whose serials are consistent with the shape encoded here. Corroborates the SHAPE weakly; dates nothing"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Tasmania  # secondary (CC BY-SA; facts extracted in our expression per the PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia rule), accessed 2026-08-02: the per-state article states in terms 'On 24 February 2008, the Government of Tasmania issued a new registration plate design in the format A 00 AA. After the first letter appears the Tasmanian state logo with the slogan Tasmania - Explore the possibilities', and adds the August 2017 F-to-H block skip with G reserved for Tasmanian government vehicles and Z/Y/X reserved for trailers. Uncited in the article; tagged, not asserted"
+      - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Tasmania/tasmania.htm  # enthusiast reference (the plates spec §4 corroboration class), accessed 2026-08-02: photo-dated Tasmanian plates from 2016 to 2024 whose serials are consistent with the shape encoded here. Corroborates the SHAPE weakly; dates nothing"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Tasmania  # secondary (CC BY-SA; facts extracted in our expression per the plates spec §4 Wikipedia rule), accessed 2026-08-02: the per-state article states in terms 'On 24 February 2008, the Government of Tasmania issued a new registration plate design in the format A 00 AA. After the first letter appears the Tasmanian state logo with the slogan Tasmania - Explore the possibilities', and adds the August 2017 F-to-H block skip with G reserved for Tasmanian government vehicles and Z/Y/X reserved for trailers. Uncited in the article; tagged, not asserted"
     notes: >-
       TASMANIA'S CURRENT GENERAL ISSUE. RE-DATED 2013 -> 2008 IN THE COMPLETION
       PASS OF THIS WAVE, and the reason is worth stating because it is a
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ series:
       owner-chosen combinations.
 
   # =========================================================================
-  # ONE SERIES BACK — added in the completion pass, because PRD-PLATES asks for
+  # ONE SERIES BACK — added in the completion pass, because the plates spec asks for
   # current plus one back and the first pass authored none. Wholly secondary,
   # and tagged so.
   # =========================================================================
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ series:
           AA-nnnn through to FT-nnnn". So a Tasmanian plate of this shape
           decodes to a MONTH OF REGISTRATION only if it was issued in the
           1970-1971 window, and decodes to nothing afterwards. That is exactly
-          the France-SIV trap PRD-PLATES §2.4 warns about — a positional code
+          the France-SIV trap the plates spec §2.4 warns about — a positional code
           that stopped meaning what it meant — and it is why no
           `region_encoding` or month table is attached to this series: a decode
           table that is right for 23 months and wrong for 37 years would make
@@ -222,8 +222,8 @@ series:
       abandoned on 31 December 1971. Tasmania has never encoded geography in a
       registration number.
     sources:
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Tasmania  # secondary (CC BY-SA; facts in our expression per the PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia rule), accessed 2026-08-02: the 1970 AA-0000 to ZB-9999 series, the twelve month letters and their assignments, the second-letter reservations for trailers (T) and motorcycles (X), the 31 December 1971 abandonment, the slogan and border history, and the 2008 replacement. NONE of it carries a footnote in the article"
-      - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Tasmania/tasmania.htm  # enthusiast reference (PRD-PLATES §4 corroboration class), cited in the article and recorded here as the only independent capture of Tasmanian plate shapes; corroborates the SHAPE, dates nothing"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Tasmania  # secondary (CC BY-SA; facts in our expression per the plates spec §4 Wikipedia rule), accessed 2026-08-02: the 1970 AA-0000 to ZB-9999 series, the twelve month letters and their assignments, the second-letter reservations for trailers (T) and motorcycles (X), the 31 December 1971 abandonment, the slogan and border history, and the 2008 replacement. NONE of it carries a footnote in the article"
+      - "http://www.plateshack.com/y2k/Tasmania/tasmania.htm  # enthusiast reference (the plates spec §4 corroboration class), cited in the article and recorded here as the only independent capture of Tasmanian plate shapes; corroborates the SHAPE, dates nothing"
     notes: >-
       TASMANIA'S PREVIOUS GENERAL ISSUE, 1970-2008, AND A CAUTION ABOUT WHAT IT
       IS NOT. It is authored to satisfy the current-plus-one-back requirement and
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ series:
       writing a private price list into subordinate legislation.
     programme:
       operator: "TasPlates, whose site footer reads 'TM of the Crown in Right of Tasmania' — a State-owned mark operated under contract with the Department, which is exactly the 'organisation that has a contract with the Department' the regulation refers to"
-      catalogue: "TasPlates describes 'over 100 unique personalised number plates' styles; individual designs are L4 scope (PRD-PLATES §2.5) and none is recorded here"
+      catalogue: "TasPlates describes 'over 100 unique personalised number plates' styles; individual designs are L4 scope (the plates spec §2.5) and none is recorded here"
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
       - "https://www.legislation.tas.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/sr-2021-026  # the regulations headed 'Specific registration numbers' and 'Using personalised number plates' (accessed 2026-08-02): the application on an approved form, the Registrar's duty to issue the personalised plate subject to conditions, the three-limbed fee provision quoted above, the auction limb and the refusal power"
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ series:
       Tasmania has sold personalised plates for decades under predecessor
       regulations that were not read in this pass (recorded gap).
 gaps:
-  - "THE ONE-SERIES-BACK REQUIREMENT IS NOT MET FOR TASMANIA, deliberately. No Tasmanian government source describes any previous general issue, and the only available description of one sits in a locator table whose systematic extraction PRD-PLATES §4 forbids. A fabricated predecessor would be worse than an absent one; this is a recorded gap with a clear acceptance test (a Registrar's page, a Gazette notice, or a dated departmental history)"
+  - "THE ONE-SERIES-BACK REQUIREMENT IS NOT MET FOR TASMANIA, deliberately. No Tasmanian government source describes any previous general issue, and the only available description of one sits in a locator table whose systematic extraction the plates spec §4 forbids. A fabricated predecessor would be worse than an absent one; this is a recorded gap with a clear acceptance test (a Registrar's page, a Gazette notice, or a dated departmental history)"
   - "No Tasmanian plate dimensions, colours or legends are published by the Registrar — every design claim in this file is either cross-State or secondary"
   - "The refusal grounds for a specific registration number are in the instrument and were not transcribed in full"
   - "transport.tas.gov.au (Department of State Growth) returns HTTP 403 to non-browser clients; a verifier with a browser should read its number-plate pages first"

data/data/plates/au-vic.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/au-vic.yml — Victoria (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Australia).
+# plates/au-vic.yml — Victoria (the plates spec gate L3, Australia).
 #
 # VICTORIA IS THE BEST-EVIDENCED AUSTRALIAN JURISDICTION IN THIS WAVE, and the
 # reason is one page: VicRoads publishes, on its own General issue number plates
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 # quotes the empowering words). What Victoria has is not a better LAW, it is a
 # better AGENCY PAGE. Recorded that way.
 #
-# SEPARATOR NOTE (PRD-PLATES §2.6): a Victorian plate prints a RAISED DOT
+# SEPARATOR NOTE (the plates spec §2.6): a Victorian plate prints a RAISED DOT
 # between the two groups, and VicRoads itself writes the combination both ways
 # on the same page — "1AA.1AA" in the prose, "1AA 1AA" in the table. Neither
 # glyph is serial-significant: the dot is the printed group separator and the
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ instrument:
     Queensland and Tasmanian files carry the equivalent rules verbatim from
     their own instruments, and Victoria's are understood to be materially the
     same, which is an EXPECTATION, not a claim, and is not encoded.
-  licence: "legislation.vic.gov.au publishes Victorian legislation; VicRoads pages are Victorian Crown copyright. Facts extracted, text quoted only where marked verbatim (PRD-PLATES §4)"
+  licence: "legislation.vic.gov.au publishes Victorian legislation; VicRoads pages are Victorian Crown copyright. Facts extracted, text quoted only where marked verbatim (the plates spec §4)"
 
 national_schemes:
   heavy_vehicle: >-
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ series:
         VicRoads, verbatim: "blue characters on a white reflective background".
         The white is recorded as a hex with `hex_basis: observed`; THE BLUE IS
         NOT — VicRoads names the colour and never specifies it, and inventing a
-        blue would be exactly the fabricated-fact failure PRD-PLATES §9 warns
+        blue would be exactly the fabricated-fact failure the plates spec §9 warns
         about. A `foreground` hex lands when a Victorian specification does.
       colour_history: >-
         VicRoads' own three lines, verbatim: "1960 - 1977: Black background,
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ series:
       legend_rule: "VicRoads, verbatim: 'the current slogan printed on the centre bottom of the plate (not included on slimline)'. The slogan is a VARIABLE of the design — Victoria has changed it by policy several times — and the current text is deliberately not hard-coded here"
       plate: { w: 372, h: 134, unit: mm }
       plate_dimension_note: "the Australian passenger size; VicRoads does not publish its own millimetres, so this is the cross-State figure sourced in plates/au-wa.yml (WA DoT: 372 x 134 mm) and plates/au-nt.yml (NT MVR: 372 x 133 mm), flagged as such"
-      slimline_variant: "VicRoads offers a slimline plate, on which the slogan is omitted — a design variant of this series, not a series of its own (PRD-PLATES §2.3)"
+      slimline_variant: "VicRoads offers a slimline plate, on which the slogan is omitted — a design variant of this series, not a series of its own (the plates spec §2.3)"
       rear_differs: false
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ series:
 
   # =========================================================================
   # MOTORCYCLES — a separate series because the ARRANGEMENT differs, not just
-  # the size (PRD-PLATES §2.3: own series iff format OR design OR period).
+  # the size (the plates spec §2.3: own series iff format OR design OR period).
   # =========================================================================
   - id: au-vic-motorcycle
     class: motorcycle

data/data/plates/au-wa.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/au-wa.yml — Western Australia (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Australia).
+# plates/au-wa.yml — Western Australia (the plates spec gate L3, Australia).
 #
 # WESTERN AUSTRALIA HAS THE BEST START DATE IN THE AUSTRALIAN WAVE, and it is
 # not from a statute — it is from the Transport Minister's own dated media
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ instrument:
     source anyway, since Australian registration regulations carry no serial
     grammar. The verifier should still read the Regulations for the display
     rules, which this file therefore does NOT state (recorded gap).
-  licence: "Government of Western Australia material; facts extracted, quotations marked verbatim (PRD-PLATES §4)"
+  licence: "Government of Western Australia material; facts extracted, quotations marked verbatim (the plates spec §4)"
 
 national_schemes:
   heavy_vehicle: >-
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ series:
   # =========================================================================
   # ONE SERIES BACK — added in the completion pass. The first pass recorded it
   # as a gap because the Minister names it without describing it; the Wikipedia
-  # rule (PRD-PLATES §4, owner override 2026-08-02) permits the description to
+  # rule (the plates spec §4, owner override 2026-08-02) permits the description to
   # be taken from the article and tagged, which is strictly better than a gap.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: au-wa-standard-1978
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ series:
           used was black on yellow, where the numbers preceding the letters
           ranged between 6 and 9. This series ended at 9MZ-999 and the trailer
           series ended at 9RZ-999." The 6-9 restriction is exactly what
-          `regex_strict` is for (PRD-PLATES §2.7): the lint generates every
+          `regex_strict` is for (the plates spec §2.7): the lint generates every
           digit from `pattern`, so `regex` cannot carry it, and the tier order
           regex_strict ⊆ regex holds by construction here.
         corroboration: >-
@@ -224,14 +224,14 @@ series:
       product page (plateswa.com) was not fetched in this pass (recorded gap).
     sources:
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010058/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Court/1997/07/Unveiling-of-new-generation-of-vehicle-licence-plates.aspx  # Hon Eric Charlton MLC, Minister for Transport (WA), 'Unveiling of new generation of vehicle licence plates', 5 July 1997, archived, accessed 2026-08-02: 'Until now we have been getting just four or five years from each licence plate series and with the current nine series plates about to expire, Transport was keen to develop something which will provide long-term consistency' — the government's own corroboration of the 9 block and of the four-to-five-year series cadence this series ended"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Western_Australia  # secondary (CC BY-SA; facts in our expression per the PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia rule), accessed 2026-08-02: the October 1978 start at 6AA-000, the 6-9 leading-digit range, the black-on-yellow colours, the 9MZ-999 and 9RZ-999 endings, and the February 2025 Nostalgia reissue. The 1978 sentence is footnoted in the article to a print periodical ('Registration Notes, Fleetline issue 41, December 1978, page 4') which was NOT obtained"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Western_Australia  # secondary (CC BY-SA; facts in our expression per the plates spec §4 Wikipedia rule), accessed 2026-08-02: the October 1978 start at 6AA-000, the 6-9 leading-digit range, the black-on-yellow colours, the 9MZ-999 and 9RZ-999 endings, and the February 2025 Nostalgia reissue. The 1978 sentence is footnoted in the article to a print periodical ('Registration Notes, Fleetline issue 41, December 1978, page 4') which was NOT obtained"
     notes: >-
       WESTERN AUSTRALIA'S PREVIOUS GENERAL ISSUE, 1978-1997, AUTHORED IN THE
       COMPLETION PASS. The first pass of this file deliberately left it out and
       said so ("the Minister names it only as 'the current nine series plates',
       which is not a format description, and it is a recorded gap rather than a
       guessed series"). That was right under a locator-only reading of the
-      Wikipedia row of PRD-PLATES §4; under the owner's 2026-08-02 override the
+      Wikipedia row of the plates spec §4; under the owner's 2026-08-02 override the
       description may be EXTRACTED provided it is tagged, and a tagged
       description that the Minister's own sentence independently corroborates is
       better data than an empty gap. Both boundaries are secondary: 1978 from
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ series:
           Mandurah." So the leading two letters are a DISTRICT CODE and the
           remainder is an ascending sequence — but the department publishes no
           code list and no sequence grammar, so the regex is deliberately wider
-          than what is issued and `matching: recall-only` says so (PRD-PLATES
+          than what is issued and `matching: recall-only` says so (the plates spec
           §2.7). A match means "this could be a WA district plate", never "this
           is a valid one".
     design:
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ series:
       WA DISTRICT SERIES — THE ONE GEOGRAPHIC DECODE IN AUSTRALIAN PLATES, AND
       IT IS DELIBERATELY LEFT AS A MECHANISM. The department states the
       mechanism plainly and gives a single example; it publishes no code table.
-      PRD-PLATES §2.4's rule is that open-ended or unpublished decodes get a
+      The plates spec §2.4's rule is that open-ended or unpublished decodes get a
       mechanism note, not an invented table, and that is what this is. The
       period is an UPPER BOUND for an unusual reason worth stating: the
       department's own page dates nothing except a 2021 administrative change

data/data/plates/be.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/be.yml — Belgium (PRD-PLATES gate L1, EU/EEA slice).
+# plates/be.yml — Belgium (the plates spec gate L1, EU/EEA slice).
 #
 # EVERY format, colour, dimension and class claim in this file is taken from
 # one of two consolidated Belgian instruments, fetched from the federal
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
 # between them — art. 4 § 1, 2° says the groups together follow the
 # rectangular combinations "SANS TIRET DE SEPARATION". Those series therefore
 # spell that position as the separator-only class `[- ]` sanctioned by
-# PRD-PLATES § 2.8, exactly as es-consular-cc-1999 does, while `pattern` shows
+# the plates spec § 2.8, exactly as es-consular-cc-1999 does, while `pattern` shows
 # the canonical printed hyphen.
 jurisdiction: be
 authority:
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ common:
     note: >-
       The embossed CV seal is what makes a plate the OFFICIAL plate: art. 1, 22°
       of the arrete royal defines a reproduction as a copy "sans sceau en relief".
-      It is a lettermark, not a coat of arms, so PRD-PLATES § 3's emblem hazard
+      It is a lettermark, not a coat of arms, so the plates spec § 3's emblem hazard
       does not arise for Belgium — there is no state seal, no provincial arms and
       no artwork on a Belgian plate at all.
     source: "https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/article.pl?language=fr&lg_txt=f&numac_search=2001014154&caller=SUM&view_numac=2001014154f  # art. 3 § 4, art. 11 § 3, art. 18 § 2"
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ common:
       reprise pour des raisons techniques, voir M.B. du 15-05-2020, p. 34158").
       Belgium is therefore the same case the EU dossier found for the UK, Germany
       and Spain: the legal object is a statutory drawing, not a licensable font
-      file, and PRD-PLATES § 6's derive-from-the-drawing rule applies.
+      file, and the plates spec § 6's derive-from-the-drawing rule applies.
     pitch: "art. 24 § 4, 4°: the horizontal distance between the centre of each sign is 50 mm on car reproductions and 39,2 mm on motorcycle reproductions — the only character metric available as TEXT rather than as a drawing"
     pre_2010_metrics: >-
       The 2001 text, before the drawings replaced it, gave the metrics in words
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ common:
     source: "https://mobilit.belgium.be/fr/route/immatriculer-et-radier/plaques-et-certificats-dimmatriculation/format-de-plaque  # DIV's format page: sizes only, no index series table (accessed 2026-08-02)"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# The index vocabulary — small, closed, primary, so inlined per PRD-PLATES
+# The index vocabulary — small, closed, primary, so inlined per the plates spec
 # § 2.4's "inline table (small)" rule. This is Belgium's answer to Germany's
 # Anlage 2: not geography, but VEHICLE CATEGORY.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ series:
       separator_note: >-
         Two-line plate: the letter group sits ABOVE the digit group with no printed
         glyph between them, so the position is spelled as the separator-only class
-        `[- ]` (PRD-PLATES § 2.8). Only the hyphen after the index is printed.
+        `[- ]` (the plates spec § 2.8). Only the hyphen after the index is printed.
     design:
       plate: { w: 210, h: 140, unit: mm }
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: spec }
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ series:
       HISTORIC MOTORCYCLE, "O" index with an "M" letter group, from 01-01-2021.
       Kept as its own entry rather than folded into be-historic-o-2021 because both
       the format (the mandated M) and the design (210 x 140 two-line) differ, which
-      is the PRD-PLATES § 2.3 test applied literally. Note that art. 12 § 3 keys
+      is the plates spec § 2.3 test applied literally. Note that art. 12 § 3 keys
       eligibility to art. 2 § 2, 1° of the arrete royal of 10 October 1974 on the
       technical conditions for mopeds and motorcycles — NOT to the thirty-year test
       that art. 4 § 2 now uses for cars, so the two O series do not share a
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ series:
       charset:
         index: [M]
         notes: "art. 12 § 2, verbatim: 'l'inscription consiste en la lettre (index) \"M\" suivie d'un tiret de separation et d'un groupe de trois lettres au-dessus d'un groupe de trois chiffres ou d'un groupe de trois chiffres au-dessus d'un groupe de trois lettres'"
-      separator_note: "two-line plate; the group boundary carries no printed glyph, hence the separator-only class `[- ]` (PRD-PLATES § 2.8)"
+      separator_note: "two-line plate; the group boundary carries no printed glyph, hence the separator-only class `[- ]` (the plates spec § 2.8)"
     design:
       plate: { w: 210, h: 140, unit: mm }
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: spec }
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ series:
           ... Pour les quadricycles legers ... Les series de lettres commencent
           par la lettre 'U'." So the SECOND character of the string decodes the
           exact vehicle kind — a four-way split no other series in this file has.
-      separator_note: "two-line plate; separator-only class `[- ]` at the stacked group boundary (PRD-PLATES § 2.8)"
+      separator_note: "two-line plate; separator-only class `[- ]` at the stacked group boundary (the plates spec § 2.8)"
     design:
       plate: { w: 100, h: 120, unit: mm }
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: spec }
@@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ series:
     categories: [car, van, truck, bus, trailer, motorcycle, moped]
     period: { start: 2014 }
     period_evidence: enabling-instrument
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES § 2.7): the regex below accepts any hyphen-grouped
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec § 2.7): the regex below accepts any hyphen-grouped
     # alphanumeric string, which is deliberately WIDER than the grammar DIV
     # issues — the eight-character cap, the at-least-one-letter rule and the
     # long list of reserved shapes cannot be expressed without either a
@@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@ series:
       charset:
         first_letter_of_group: [M, W]
         notes: "art. 12 (2001), verbatim: 'L'inscription est constituee d'un groupe de trois lettres au dessus d'un groupe de trois chiffres. § 2. Le groupe de lettres commence par un \"M\" ou un \"W\".'"
-      separator_note: "two-line plate with no index and no printed glyph between the groups; the position is the separator-only class `[- ]` (PRD-PLATES § 2.8)"
+      separator_note: "two-line plate with no index and no printed glyph between the groups; the position is the separator-only class `[- ]` (the plates spec § 2.8)"
     design:
       plate: { w: 140, h: 175, unit: mm }
       background: { color: "#F9B700", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed, spec_note: "art. 12 § 1 (2001), verbatim: 'La marque d'immatriculation ordinaire a un fond JAUNE. L'inscription et le lisere sont noirs.' The statute names the colour without a code, so the hex is observed within a named colour." }

data/data/plates/br.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/br.yml — Brazil (PRD-PLATES gate L3, DRAFT for human verification).
+# plates/br.yml — Brazil (the plates spec gate L3, DRAFT for human verification).
 #
 # PASS 2 (2026-08-02, second Opus researcher over the same jurisdiction). This
 # file supersedes a pass-1 draft, preserved beside it as `pass1/br.pass1.yml`
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 #    not by the alphabet: native Mercosul combinations are issued out of FRESH
 #    three-letter blocks that the PNU never used, so no collision with a
 #    converted plate is possible even though both use A–J.
-#    PRD-PLATES § 5.3 forbids averaging a disagreement, so the native series
+#    The plates spec § 5.3 forbids averaging a disagreement, so the native series
 #    carry NO `regex_strict` and the whole question is recorded here, in
 #    `common.fifth_character_rule`, and as verifier target #1 in the dossier.
 #    NET EFFECT FOR A CONSUMER: an A–J fifth character is NOT proof of
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
 #    Anexo I Tabela III distinguishes Particular, Comercial (Aluguel e
 #    Aprendizagem), Oficial e Representação, Diplomático/Consular, Especiais
 #    and Coleção by CHARACTER COLOUR ALONE, on an identical white plate with
-#    an identical LLLNLNN combination. PRD-PLATES § 2.3 is explicit that a
+#    an identical LLLNLNN combination. The plates spec § 2.3 is explicit that a
 #    colour-only variant of the same format+period is a SUB-ENTRY, so those
 #    six live in `variants:` with a `class:` flag each — while the PNU-era
 #    official and diplomatic plates, whose tarjeta content differed, are
@@ -178,14 +178,14 @@
 # pattern's own alphabet. `format.regex_strict` carries the tighter, sourced
 # form, which here is only ever the fifth-character range of Anexo II item 2.
 #
-# SEPARATOR NOTE (PRD-PLATES § 2.6): the CURRENT plate prints no separator
+# SEPARATOR NOTE (the plates spec § 2.6): the CURRENT plate prints no separator
 # ("espaçamento equidistante", above) and its pattern has none. The PNU does:
 # Res. 969/2022 art. 2 § 3 writes the old standard as "AAA-1111", while the
 # instrument that actually prescribed it (Res. 231/2007 art. 1) describes two
 # groups — "o primeiro grupo composto por 3 (três) ... e o segundo grupo
 # composto por 4 (quatro)" — and prescribes no separator GLYPH. The PNU
 # regexes therefore spell the gap as the sanctioned separator-only class
-# `[- ]?` (PRD-PLATES § 2.8, the es-consular-cc-1999 precedent), and
+# `[- ]?` (the plates spec § 2.8, the es-consular-cc-1999 precedent), and
 # `pattern` shows the canonical printed form `LLL-9999`.
 jurisdiction: br
 authority:
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ common:
     pnu_serial: { name: "Mandatory", source: "Res. 231/2007 Anexo item 4 — 'A Tipologia dos caracteres das placas e tarjetas devem seguir o modelo abaixo especificado na fonte: Mandatory'" }
     licence_posture: >-
       Both current fonts are NAMED third-party typefaces, which is unusual —
-      most surveyed jurisdictions prescribe a statutory drawing (PRD-PLATES
+      most surveyed jurisdictions prescribe a statutory drawing (the plates spec
       § 6). Neither instrument grants any licence. The render layer must
       therefore derive glyphs from the instrument's own figures and the
       published character-width tables (Res. 231/2007 Anexo item 2 gives a full
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ common:
       third-party FE-Schrift or Gill Sans binary.
   class_map:
     note: >-
-      Where each legal issuance category lives in this file. PRD-PLATES § 2.3
+      Where each legal issuance category lives in this file. The plates spec § 2.3
       sends colour-only variants to `variants:`; Brazil's current system makes
       six categories colour-only, so a class-keyed consumer must read variants.
     current:
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ series:
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: spec }
       foreground: "#000000"
       band: { side: top, color: "#0033A0", hex_basis: pantone-converted, h: 30, w: 390, unit: mm, content: "MERCOSUL emblem (left) + BRASIL voided white (centre) + Brazilian flag (right)" }
-      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, note: "MERCOSUL emblem per DEC CMC nº 17/02 corporate identity manual; national flag; PRD-PLATES § 3 placeholder rule applies until the emblem licence is affirmatively cleared" }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, note: "MERCOSUL emblem per DEC CMC nº 17/02 corporate identity manual; national flag; the plates spec § 3 placeholder rule applies until the emblem licence is affirmatively cleared" }
       characters: { height_mm: 65, font: "FE Engschrift", relief: "alto relevo", process: "hot stamp thermal film, non-retroreflective, non-diffractive, overprinted with the words MERCOSUR BRASIL MERCOSUL at 5 mm" }
       material: { substrate: "non-galvanised aluminium 1 mm ± 0.2", film: "microprismatic or microspherical retroreflective, ISO 7591:1982 tested, ASTM E-810 measured" }
       rear_differs: false
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ series:
         note: >-
           "Comercial (Aluguel e Aprendizagem)" — hire vehicles (taxis, ride-hail,
           rental) AND driving-school vehicles share one red-character category.
-          Colour-only variant of this series per PRD-PLATES § 2.3: same plate,
+          Colour-only variant of this series per the plates spec § 2.3: same plate,
           same LLLNLNN combination, same period. Under the PNU these were two
           DIFFERENT designs (red ground / white ground, see br-pnu-standard-1990
           variants) — the Mercosul plate merged them.
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ series:
   # for "state/municipality shown on plate pre-2018 (mechanism note)", and the
   # research turned up the fact that the MERCOSUL plate ALSO showed them, for
   # nine months, and lost them by a dated instrument. That is a design regime
-  # with an instrument at both ends, so PRD-PLATES § 2.3 makes it a series.
+  # with an instrument at both ends, so the plates spec § 2.3 makes it a series.
   # -------------------------------------------------------------------------
   - id: br-mercosul-uf-brasao-2018
     class: standard
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ series:
           heat-applied, at the right edge below the UF flag. Item 1.7.1 assigns
           it: federal fleets the Brasão de Armas Federal; state fleets the state
           flag and state arms; municipal fleets the state flag and the MUNICIPAL
-          arms. PRD-PLATES § 3 placeholder rule applies.
+          arms. The plates spec § 3 placeholder rule applies.
       municipality_legend:
         font: "Gill Sans"
         note: >-
@@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ series:
         Res. 231/2007 art. 1 prescribes two GROUPS and no separator glyph;
         Res. 969/2022 art. 2 § 3, describing the same plate 15 years later,
         writes it "AAA-1111". The regex therefore accepts hyphen, space or
-        nothing at the group boundary (PRD-PLATES § 2.8 separator-only class),
+        nothing at the group boundary (the plates spec § 2.8 separator-only class),
         and `pattern` shows the canonical printed hyphen.
       separator_printed_form: >-
         SETTLED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY (wave-1 render pass): issued plates print a
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ series:
       - class: taxi
         name: aluguel
         design: { background: { color: "#AF2B1E", hex_basis: ral-converted, spec_note: "VERMELHO = RAL 3000 (Feuerrot), Res. 45/98 Anexo item 11" }, foreground: "#F6F6F6" }
-        note: "'Aluguel' — hire vehicles (taxis, buses, rental): RED ground, WHITE characters. Colour-only variant of the same format and period per PRD-PLATES § 2.3."
+        note: "'Aluguel' — hire vehicles (taxis, buses, rental): RED ground, WHITE characters. Colour-only variant of the same format and period per the plates spec § 2.3."
         sources:
           - "https://web.archive.org/web/20140815083608/http://www.denatran.gov.br/download/Consolidadas/cons231.pdf  # Anexo 5.1 colour table, row 'Aluguel'"
       - class: dealer
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ series:
           OI: "veículos pertencentes a Organismos Internacionais"
           ADM: "funcionários administrativos de carreira estrangeiros de Missões Diplomáticas, Repartições Consulares e Representações de Organismos Internacionais"
           CI: "peritos estrangeiros sem residência permanente, no âmbito de Acordo de Cooperação Internacional"
-        note: "closed, small, primary list — inlined per PRD-PLATES § 2.4 rather than given a _decode file"
+        note: "closed, small, primary list — inlined per the plates spec § 2.4 rather than given a _decode file"
       rear_differs: false
     region_encoding:
       mechanism: "no geography; the tarjeta encodes the CORPS instead of the municipality"

data/data/plates/ca-ab.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ca-ab.yml — Alberta (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Canada west).
+# plates/ca-ab.yml — Alberta (the plates spec gate L3, Canada west).
 #
 # ── FOUR STRUCTURAL FACTS THAT SHAPE THIS FILE ─────────────────────────────
 #
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 #    THIS FILE SAYS SO ON ITS FACE. `ABC-1234` is universally reported and was
 #    NOT located on any alberta.ca page, in the Traffic Safety Act, or in
 #    AR 320/2002. It is carried with `period_evidence: secondary-wikipedia` and
-#    `format.evidence: secondary`, per the PRD-PLATES § 4 Wikipedia row's
+#    `format.evidence: secondary`, per the plates spec § 4 Wikipedia row's
 #    tagging condition. Contrast plates/ca-yt.yml, whose grammar for every class
 #    is in the regulation itself, and plates/ca-nt.yml, whose thirteen plate
 #    types are enumerated with their letter prefixes in the regulation. Alberta
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     contracted third-party property — the same posture Montana reaches by a
     different route (MCA 61-3-475's hold-harmless clause).
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES § 3 placeholder default applies to the wild-rose device, the
+    the plates spec § 3 placeholder default applies to the wild-rose device, the
     provincial wordmark, the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers marks, and the
     Royal Canadian Legion's "integrated maple leaf and poppy logo", which
     AR 320/2002 s. 66.1(1) puts on the veterans' plate BY NAME. The Legion logo
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ common:
   separator_note: >-
     Alberta's serial is universally rendered with a hyphen (`ABC-1234`) and NO
     Alberta publication states a separator glyph or a group gap. Under
-    PRD-PLATES § 2.8 the honest encoding of an authority that names no glyph is
+    the plates spec § 2.8 the honest encoding of an authority that names no glyph is
     a separator-only class, so every regex here spells the position `[- ]?`
     while `pattern` shows the canonical printed hyphen. A § 2.6-forgiving
     consumer deletes it either way.
@@ -143,9 +143,9 @@ common:
     `design.plate` is absent from every series here, as in plates/ca-bc.yml and
     plates/gb.yml.
   charset_disagreement: >-
-    RECORDED, NOT AVERAGED (PRD-PLATES § 5.3). Two secondary readings of the
+    RECORDED, NOT AVERAGED (the plates spec § 5.3). Two secondary readings of the
     Alberta regular-series alphabet are in circulation: the world dossier
-    (aux/research/plates-2026-07/plates-research-us-world.md § 2.1) reports
+    (the US-and-world research dossier § 2.1) reports
     "excludes I, O, Q, U"; the per-province encyclopedia article reports that
     "A, E, I, O, Q, U are skipped" — i.e. all vowels plus Q. No Alberta source
     resolves it. NEITHER is asserted: no `regex_strict` narrows the
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ series:
       arrangement every source reports and no Alberta publication states. The
       reported first issue is June 2010; the encyclopedia row carries no
       footnote for it, so it is tagged `secondary-wikipedia` under the
-      PRD-PLATES § 4 Wikipedia condition (tagged + article URL, so that every
+      the plates spec § 4 Wikipedia condition (tagged + article URL, so that every
       such fact is enumerable in one pass if the decision is revisited). The
       base design itself is reported as introduced in late 1983 and refreshed
       with an updated provincial logo in July 2019 — BASE AND FORMAT HAVE
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ series:
       and neither reported base date is asserted as a series boundary here.
       No `regex_strict` is offered: see common.charset_disagreement.
     sources:
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Alberta  # FINDING AID (PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia row): the ABC-1234 arrangement, the reported June 2010 first issue, the reported 1983 base and 2019 logo refresh; accessed 2026-08-02"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Alberta  # FINDING AID (the plates spec §4 Wikipedia row): the ABC-1234 arrangement, the reported June 2010 first issue, the reported 1983 base and 2019 logo refresh; accessed 2026-08-02"
       - "https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf  # s. 63(1)-(2): the Registrar issues; the Minister approves number, type and colour"
 
   - id: ca-ab-standard-3x3
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ series:
       years before the reported ABC-1234 start, and NO SOURCE EXPLAINS THE GAP.
       Because the end year is contested by that gap, the schema's known-over-
       undated shape is used: `ended: true` with `year_end_min: 2003` rather than
-      a hard `end`, which is exactly the case PRD-PLATES § 2.2 introduced it
+      a hard `end`, which is exactly the case the plates spec § 2.2 introduced it
       for. "Wild Rose Country" is reported as the slogan from 1973, i.e. it
       spans both series and is not an era signal.
     sources:
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ series:
     program_count: 3
     program_count_basis: "alberta.ca names exactly three specialty plates and links a page for each. Alberta publishes no total and no catalogue; three is what the authority lists, not an estimate."
     notes: >-
-      THE INDEX ENTRY, per PRD-PLATES § 2.5 (individual specialty DESIGNS are
+      THE INDEX ENTRY, per the plates spec § 2.5 (individual specialty DESIGNS are
       L4 work). `period.start: 2014` is the enabling instrument, not a program
       date: s. 63.1 was ADDED to AR 320/2002 by AR 160/2014 s. 2 and amended by
       AR 77/2022. s. 63.1(3): the Registrar, "on the application of, and having

data/data/plates/ca-bc.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ca-bc.yml — British Columbia (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Canada west).
+# plates/ca-bc.yml — British Columbia (the plates spec gate L3, Canada west).
 #
 # CANADA IS FEDERATED THE WAY THE UNITED STATES IS, AND THIS FILE IS THE
 # per-subdivision shape the schema already carries (`us-fl.yml` is its
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
 #    ICBC's bulletin writes every pattern SOLID (`@###@@`, example `A123BC`).
 #    A physical BC passenger plate prints a visible gap between character
 #    groups, and secondary sources render the serial hyphenated (`A12-3BC`).
-#    ICBC states no separator glyph and no gap POSITION. Under PRD-PLATES
+#    ICBC states no separator glyph and no gap POSITION. Under the plates spec
 #    § 2.6 the dataset ships the printed form; where the authority itself
 #    prints the form solid and states nothing else, the solid form is what is
 #    shipped, and the gap is recorded as an open question rather than placed
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ instrument:
   licence: "bclaws.gov.bc.ca content is Copyright (c) King's Printer, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, published under the King's Printer licence; the statute and regulation are edicts of government. The ICBC bulletin is an ICBC publication, served without click-through, and is cited (facts extracted) rather than reproduced."
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — PRD-PLATES § 4 requires this per federated subdivision.
+# artwork_risk — the plates spec § 4 requires this per federated subdivision.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 artwork_risk:
   posture: unresearched-crown-copyright-presumed
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     asserting or disclaiming copyright in the PLATE DESIGN specifically, so the
     posture is recorded as UNRESEARCHED and the § 3 placeholder default governs.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES § 3 placeholder rule applies to the provincial flag device on
+    the plates spec § 3 placeholder rule applies to the provincial flag device on
     the standard base and to all three BC Parks artworks (Kermode bear, Purcell
     Mountains, Porteau Cove), which are commissioned photographic/illustrative
     works, not statutory drawings. Render emblem slots as
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ series:
         ICBC prints the pattern and its example SOLID. The physical plate shows
         a group gap and secondary renderings hyphenate it (`A12-3BC`), but ICBC
         states neither a glyph nor a gap POSITION, so none is asserted. A
-        PRD-PLATES § 2.6 forgiving consumer strips the gap and matches this
+        the plates spec § 2.6 forgiving consumer strips the gap and matches this
         regex unchanged.
       progression: "not published. ICBC states only that the recut exists to extend the six-character space; no block-allocation order was found."
     design:
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ series:
       old inventories get exhausted") — which is why the two series overlap.
     sources:
       - "https://partners.icbc.com/assets/5GMseymkqs8E4Otb8osoGQ/bulletin-33-new-licence-plate-configurations.pdf  # 'Current pattern' column = @@###@; old-inventory exhaustion rule"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_British_Columbia  # FINDING AID ONLY (PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia row): the unfootnoted 2014 start; accessed 2026-08-02"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_British_Columbia  # FINDING AID ONLY (the plates spec §4 Wikipedia row): the unfootnoted 2014 start; accessed 2026-08-02"
 
   # =========================================================================
   # COMMERCIAL / FARM / TRAILER / PRORATE / INDUSTRIAL — the other seven rows