vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/ca-mb.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ca-mb.yml — Manitoba (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Canada west).
+# plates/ca-mb.yml — Manitoba (the plates spec gate L3, Canada west).
 #
 # ── THE FIND: A 1997 GOVERNMENT NEWS RELEASE THAT DATES TWO SERIES AT ONCE.
 #
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     organization's application. The artwork on Manitoba's specialty plates is
     thus statutorily mandated in SUBJECT and contracted in EXECUTION.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES § 3 placeholder default applies to every graphic: the reported
+    the plates spec § 3 placeholder default applies to every graphic: the reported
     bison device and maple leaf on the standard base, and all three statutory
     specialty graphics. Render `{present: true, rendered: placeholder}`.
   sources:
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ series:
       distribution_window_start: "1997-08-01"
       distribution_window_end: "1998-07-31"
       note: >-
-        PRD-PLATES § 2.2's `period.rollout` case, met by a primary source. The
+        the plates spec § 2.2's `period.rollout` case, met by a primary source. The
         1997 release gives three distinct dates rather than one: plates begin
         appearing in June 1997, the first renewal notices are mailed
         17 June 1997, and every registered owner receives plates at their
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ series:
       than minted as a series — the § 2.3 test again.
     sources:
       - "https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=22982&posted=1997-06-13  # first issue June 1997, the Aug 1997-July 1998 rollout window, the trees/water/wheat imagery, the reflectorized coating, the two-plate return"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Manitoba  # FINDING AID (PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia row): the ABC 123 arrangement, the I/O/Q exclusion, the reported 2012 refresh, 'Friendly Manitoba'; accessed 2026-08-02"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Manitoba  # FINDING AID (the plates spec §4 Wikipedia row): the ABC 123 arrangement, the I/O/Q exclusion, the reported 2012 refresh, 'Friendly Manitoba'; accessed 2026-08-02"
       - "https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/d104.php  # s. 60(1): the design, colour and material are the registrar's"
 
   - id: ca-mb-standard-1983

data/data/plates/ca-nb.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ca-nb.yml — New Brunswick, Canada (PRD-PLATES gate L2/L3, Canada east wave).
+# plates/ca-nb.yml — New Brunswick, Canada (the plates spec gate L2/L3, Canada east wave).
 #
 # NEW BRUNSWICK PUTS THE PLATE'S CONTENT IN THE ACT, WHICH ONTARIO AND
 # NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR DO NOT. Motor Vehicle Act s. 29(2), verbatim: "Every
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 #    Regulation 83-42 under the Act was NOT fetched (see `instrument.fetch_note`)
 #    and is the first place a verifier should look.
 #
-# SEPARATOR NOTE (PRD-PLATES §2.6): a New Brunswick plate prints a gap between
+# SEPARATOR NOTE (the plates spec §2.6): a New Brunswick plate prints a gap between
 # groups, not a glyph. Every `pattern` spells the emitted space and every regex
 # accepts it as optional.
 jurisdiction: ca-nb
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ instrument:
     - "https://laws.gnb.ca/en/showfulldoc/cs/M-17  # the official consolidation the archive copy is of; HTTP 403 from this location, see fetch_note"
   licence: >-
     The Motor Vehicle Act is an EDICT OF GOVERNMENT and its text is
-    uncopyrightable (PRD-PLATES §4). Every verbatim quotation in this file is of
+    uncopyrightable (the plates spec §4). Every verbatim quotation in this file is of
     statutory text.
 
 artwork_risk:
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ artwork_risk:
     No New Brunswick copyright statement could be read, because no gnb.ca page
     could be reached. The province's posture on plate ARTWORK is therefore
     genuinely unknown rather than assumed favourable or adverse, and is recorded
-    as `unresearched` per PRD-PLATES §7.1's vocabulary.
+    as `unresearched` per the plates spec §7.1's vocabulary.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies with extra force here, since nothing
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies with extra force here, since nothing
     is known. The provincial wordmark (the red galley device with "New" /
     "Nouveau" / "Brunswick" / "CANADA") is rendered `placeholder`; it is a
     government wordmark and is likely to carry trade-mark protection independent
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ common:
       this pass states any of it. The reservations are encoded in the passenger
       series' `regex_strict` and nowhere else.
     reserved: { C: commercial, D: dealer, F: farm, H: taxi, L: truck, T: trailer, A: antique }
-    source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Brunswick  # TAGGED SECONDARY (PRD-PLATES §4, owner override 2026-08-02), read 2026-08-02: the per-class serial tables and their first-letter reservations"
+    source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Brunswick  # TAGGED SECONDARY (the plates spec §4, owner override 2026-08-02), read 2026-08-02: the per-class serial tables and their first-letter reservations"
   dimensions:
     note: >-
       NO NEW BRUNSWICK INSTRUMENT PRESCRIBES A PLATE SIZE. s. 29(3) states a
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ classes_not_modelled:
   firefighter_and_specialty:
     exists: true
     mechanism: "The article carries 'Firefighter plates' and a 'Specialty plates' section for New Brunswick; MVA s. 35(2) is again the statutory hook."
-    why_not_modelled: "PRD-PLATES §2.5 excludes the specialty-design catalogue from v1, and no primary describes any of these. Recorded as a gap."
+    why_not_modelled: "The plates spec §2.5 excludes the specialty-design catalogue from v1, and no primary describes any of these. Recorded as a gap."
     sources:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Brunswick  # the specialty and firefighter sections, read 2026-08-02"
   prorated:
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       ONE SERIES BACK, and cut on DESIGN alone: the format is identical to
       ca-nb-standard-2011 and only the base changed when the slogan and the gold and
-      sky-blue bands were dropped. PRD-PLATES §2.3 makes that its own series and
+      sky-blue bands were dropped. The plates spec §2.3 makes that its own series and
       also means no parse API can tell the two apart from a string. Both boundaries
       are the article's, unfootnoted. The display note is an INFERENCE from the
       dated amendment history and is labelled as one.
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ series:
         notes: >-
           The literal L is the class reservation. NOTE THE PATTERN ESCAPE: `L` is
           the human-pattern DSL's own token for "any letter", so a plate that PRINTS
-          an L writes `\L` (PRD-PLATES §2.2, owner ruling 2026-08-02) — the same
+          an L writes `\L` (the plates spec §2.2, owner ruling 2026-08-02) — the same
           collision Québec's heavy-truck prefix causes in plates/ca-qc.yml, and for
           the same reason: two provinces independently chose L for "lourd"/"large".
           Written in single quotes so YAML does not eat the backslash.

data/data/plates/ca-nl.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ca-nl.yml — Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (PRD-PLATES gate L2/L3,
+# plates/ca-nl.yml — Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (the plates spec gate L2/L3,
 # Canada east wave).
 #
 # NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR DOES NOT CALL IT A LICENCE PLATE OR A NUMBER PLATE.
@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@
 #    calendar 2024, and resumed in November 2025 with the province name in black.
 #    Four bases, one format (ABC 123), continuous serial allocation across all of
 #    them. Each interruption is authored as its own series because the DESIGN and
-#    the PERIOD both differ (PRD-PLATES §2.3), and they overlap the pitcher-plant
+#    the PERIOD both differ (the plates spec §2.3), and they overlap the pitcher-plant
 #    series by construction — the parallel-issuance case §2.2 contemplates.
 #
-# SEPARATOR NOTE (PRD-PLATES §2.6): the serial prints as a gap. Every `pattern`
+# SEPARATOR NOTE (the plates spec §2.6): the serial prints as a gap. Every `pattern`
 # spells the emitted space; every regex accepts it as optional.
 jurisdiction: ca-nl
 authority:
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ instrument:
     - "https://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/statutes/h03.htm  # Highway Traffic Act, RSNL1990 c. H-3, full consolidated text, fetched 2026-08-02 — every statutory quotation in this file"
   licence: >-
     The Highway Traffic Act is an EDICT OF GOVERNMENT and its text is
-    uncopyrightable (PRD-PLATES §4). Every verbatim statutory quotation here is of
+    uncopyrightable (the plates spec §4). Every verbatim statutory quotation here is of
     that text.
   regulations_not_read: >-
     HTA s. 34 empowers the registrar to "issue other plates or markers that may be
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     Labrador, all rights reserved." No provincial open licence covering plate
     ARTWORK was located. The statute TEXT is free as an edict of government.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies. The pitcher plant (the provincial
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies. The pitcher plant (the provincial
     floral emblem, and the centrepiece of the provincial wordmark), the whale
     graphic of the 2022 base, the provincial flag sections and the half maple leaf
     of the 2024 base are all rendered `placeholder`. The pitcher-plant wordmark is
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ common:
       a finding rather than an omission.
   class_letters:
     note: >-
-      TAGGED SECONDARY (PRD-PLATES §4, owner override 2026-08-02) — the whole table.
-      Inlined rather than put in `plates/_decode/` because PRD-PLATES §2.4 sends
+      TAGGED SECONDARY (the plates spec §4, owner override 2026-08-02) — the whole table.
+      Inlined rather than put in `plates/_decode/` because the plates spec §2.4 sends
       LARGE, CLOSED, PRIMARY-SOURCED lists to a decode file and this is small
       (nineteen rows) and not primary. It decodes VEHICLE CLASS, never geography:
       a Newfoundland and Labrador serial encodes no region and no date.
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ series:
       display: "ONE plate, REAR, for a private car (HTA s. 30(2)(a)); the count itself is registrar's discretion under s. 16(2)(b)"
       spec_history:
         - { from: 2007, to: 2025, note: "provincial wordmark in blue" }
-        - { from: 2025, note: "same base with the province name in BLACK, per the article — a wordmark colour change inside one design, recorded here rather than cut as a series (PRD-PLATES §2.3)" }
+        - { from: 2025, note: "same base with the province name in BLACK, per the article — a wordmark colour change inside one design, recorded here rather than cut as a series (the plates spec §2.3)" }
     sources:
       - "https://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/statutes/h03.htm  # HTA s. 16(2)(b) (the registrar determines number, distinctiveness and numbering), s. 16(4) (different plates for different classes), s. 28(1) (Crown property), s. 30(1)-(2) (30 cm, one plate rear / two plates front and rear), s. 31 (kept clean)"
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador  # TAGGED SECONDARY: the pitcher-plant base from April 2007, the ABC 123 format, the December 2021 / January 2023 and December 2022 / January 2024 interruptions, the November 2025 resumption with a black province name, and the issuance ranges"
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ series:
       modelling decision: the serial run continued straight through both, so what
       happened in 2022 and 2024 was a parallel base rather than a succession. The
       two commemorative series therefore OVERLAP this one, legally under
-      PRD-PLATES §2.2 and with distinct notes. PARSE CAUTION: ABC 123 is also the
+      the plates spec §2.2 and with distinct notes. PARSE CAUTION: ABC 123 is also the
       current shape in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, so a bare string is not
       diagnostic; the province is recoverable only from the image, or from the class
       letter if the consumer has the block table in `common.class_letters`.
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       A COMMEMORATIVE BASE THAT REPLACED THE STANDARD BASE FOR A CALENDAR YEAR, for
       Newfoundland and Labrador's 2022 Come Home Year. Its own series because both
-      the design and the period differ (PRD-PLATES §2.3), and it deliberately
+      the design and the period differ (the plates spec §2.3), and it deliberately
       overlaps ca-nl-standard-2007 because the serial run never broke: JRA-JTC is a
       slice of the ordinary J allocation that happens to have been struck on a
       different base. Entirely secondary, and the only Canadian series in this wave
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ series:
         RIC-9 governs callsign suffixes and was not read in this pass, so `regex`
         accepts any two or three serial characters after the prefix, which is
         certainly wider than what ISED assigns. A match is a shape hit and nothing
-        more (PRD-PLATES §2.7).
+        more (the plates spec §2.7).
     design:
       plate: { w: 12, h: 6, unit: in, plate_basis: convention }
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }

data/data/plates/ca-ns.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ca-ns.yml — Nova Scotia, Canada (PRD-PLATES gate L2/L3, Canada east wave).
+# plates/ca-ns.yml — Nova Scotia, Canada (the plates spec gate L2/L3, Canada east wave).
 #
 # THE SURPRISE OF THE CANADA EAST WAVE: Nova Scotia legislates its plate DESIGNS.
 # Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador all
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
 #    are not merely observed. (The regulation omits the apostrophe in "CANADAS";
 #    quoted as found.)
 #
-# SEPARATOR NOTE (PRD-PLATES §2.6): a Nova Scotia plate prints a GAP, not a glyph.
+# SEPARATOR NOTE (the plates spec §2.6): a Nova Scotia plate prints a GAP, not a glyph.
 # The Personalized regulations confirm it from the authority's own side — a
 # personalized designation is "composed of a sequence of at least 2 and no more
 # than 7 numerals and letters ... WITH OR WITHOUT SPACES between the numerals and
@@ -130,9 +130,9 @@ instrument:
     The Nova Scotia Registry of Regulations serves these consolidations with the
     notice "This consolidation is unofficial and is for reference only" and a
     Crown copyright assertion. The TEXT of a statute or regulation is an EDICT OF
-    GOVERNMENT and uncopyrightable (PRD-PLATES §4); the quotations here are of that
+    GOVERNMENT and uncopyrightable (the plates spec §4); the quotations here are of that
     text. Where a regulation refers to a Schedule "A" DEPICTION of the plate, the
-    depiction is not reproduced (PRD-PLATES §6: cite, never embed), and in several
+    depiction is not reproduced (the plates spec §6: cite, never embed), and in several
     cases the Registry itself states "Hard copy may be obtained from the Registry
     of Regulations" — the drawing is not online at all.
 
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     to each plate regulation are not reproduced and several are not published
     online at all.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies. The Bluenose depiction, the
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies. The Bluenose depiction, the
     provincial crest, the Fire Department symbol and the piping plover are all
     rendered `placeholder`. The Bluenose is additionally a provincial emblem with
     protection independent of copyright; unresearched, flagged.
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ common:
       plate" for a motorcycle (N.S. Reg. 224/1990 s. 1(a)-(b)) — inches, and a
       DIFFERENT motorcycle size from the personalized regulation's. Both are
       recorded; neither is reconciled, because they are two instruments about two
-      plate types and averaging them would be invention (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+      plate types and averaging them would be invention (the plates spec §5.3).
     source: "https://novascotia.ca/just/regulations/regs/mvprsnum.htm  # Personalized reg s. 7(1)(a), 7(2)(a)"
     source_secondary: "https://novascotia.ca/just/regulations/regs/mvrvehid.htm  # N.S. Reg. 224/1990 s. 1(a)-(b): the six-by-twelve and five-by-eight inch RESTRICTED plates"
   charset:
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ common:
       are not used in the ABC-123 serial format, citing a collector site. No
       instrument says so. Encoded ONLY in `regex_strict`.
     source: "https://novascotia.ca/just/regulations/regs/mvprsnum.htm  # Personalized reg s. 5(c)(ii)"
-    source_secondary: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nova_Scotia  # TAGGED SECONDARY (PRD-PLATES §4, owner override 2026-08-02), read 2026-08-02"
+    source_secondary: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nova_Scotia  # TAGGED SECONDARY (the plates spec §4, owner override 2026-08-02), read 2026-08-02"
 
 classes_not_modelled:
   conservation:
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ series:
       display: "one plate, REAR, for a passenger or light commercial vehicle (Number Plates Regulations ss. 1(b), 2(1)); FRONT for a heavy commercial vehicle issued a single plate (s. 2(2))"
       spec_history:
         - { from: 1989, to: 2011, note: "embossed blue serial on reflective white with border lines around the plate and around the top corners" }
-        - { from: 2011, note: "border lines removed and narrower serial dies introduced; the mark, the format and the colours are unchanged, so this is a specification change inside one design (PRD-PLATES §2.3) and not a second series" }
+        - { from: 2011, note: "border lines removed and narrower serial dies introduced; the mark, the format and the colours are unchanged, so this is a specification change inside one design (the plates spec §2.3) and not a second series" }
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/20251124192915/https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/legc/statutes/motor%20vehicle.pdf  # MVA s. 19(1),(2): plates are furnished to the OWNER and display 'the registration number assigned to the owner and such other matter as the Minister may determine'; s. 20(2): the 300 mm mounting rule"
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ series:
       1989 and ABC 123 are the en.wikipedia article's, hence
       `period_evidence: secondary-wikipedia`. THE FORMAT PREDATES THE BASE and that
       is why the series is cut at 1989 rather than 1979: the article dates ABC-123
-      to 1979 and the Bluenose base to 1989, and PRD-PLATES §2.3 makes a design
+      to 1979 and the Bluenose base to 1989, and the plates spec §2.3 makes a design
       change with a distinct period its own series. The predecessor is authored
       below. NOTE FOR THE PARSE LAYER: three letters and three numerals is the most
       common plate shape in North America, so a bare ABC 123 string is very weakly
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ series:
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/20251124192915/https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/legc/statutes/motor%20vehicle.pdf  # MVA s. 19(3): the Registrar may require the return of plates 'upon the termination of the lawful use thereof' — the mechanism by which a superseded Nova Scotia plate leaves the road"
     notes: >-
       ONE SERIES BACK. The FORMAT is identical to the current series and only the
-      DESIGN differs, which is exactly the PRD-PLATES §2.3 test for a separate
+      DESIGN differs, which is exactly the plates spec §2.3 test for a separate
       series and also the reason a parse API cannot distinguish the two from a
       string. Both boundaries are the article's, unfootnoted. The 1986 switch from
       steel to aluminium is recorded here rather than cut as a series: a material
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ series:
       period.start 1991 is `enabling-instrument` and reads off the Order's own
       words: plates "issued after the lst day of April, 1991" (the consolidation's
       typography for "1st", quoted as found). `class: specialty` rather than a
-      bespoke value: the vocabulary has no firefighter member, and PRD-PLATES §2.3
+      bespoke value: the vocabulary has no firefighter member, and the plates spec §2.3
       forbids inventing one ad hoc; the plate is an optional design on an ordinary
       allocation, which is what `specialty` means.
 
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ series:
           with the number plate depicted in Schedule A." The FM prefix is primary.
           "Random numbers" states neither a count nor a range, so `regex` accepts
           one to six digits and the series is `matching: recall-only`: a hit is a
-          shape hit, not a validity claim (PRD-PLATES §2.7).
+          shape hit, not a validity claim (the plates spec §2.7).
       dimension_note: "s. 3(a) reads '15.24 cm in width by 30.48 in length' — the unit is missing from the second figure in the consolidation. Quoted as found; read as 30.48 cm by comparison with the identically worded Personalized, Conservation and Honorary Consul regulations."
     design:
       plate: { w: 30.48, h: 15.24, unit: cm, w_in: 12, h_in: 6 }

data/data/plates/ca-nt.yml

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-# plates/ca-nt.yml — Northwest Territories (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Canada
+# plates/ca-nt.yml — Northwest Territories (the plates spec gate L3, Canada
 # territories). THE NON-RECTANGULAR CASE.
 #
 # ── WHY THIS FILE MATTERS BEYOND ITS POPULATION ────────────────────────────
 #
-# PRD-PLATES § 2.2 names the Northwest Territories by name as the reason the
+# the plates spec § 2.2 names the Northwest Territories by name as the reason the
 # schema carries an optional `design.shape:` — "non-rectangular plates exist
 # (Canada's NT polar-bear plate)". This is that file, and it is the first in
 # the dataset to populate the key. Everything a renderer needs to know about
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     Canadian trade-mark registration (TMA558214, filed 2000, registered 2002)
     whose GOODS are, in terms, "Licence plates". A trade-mark regime is
     independent of copyright and survives any public-domain finding, which is
-    exactly the seal/emblem hazard PRD-PLATES § 4 flags as generally
+    exactly the seal/emblem hazard the plates spec § 4 flags as generally
     unresearched — here documented, with a register entry.
   exercised: >-
     NOT A PAPER RIGHT. Nunavut ran the bear shape from 1999 to 2012 under an
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     neighbouring government treated this mark as a real obstacle and negotiated
     around it.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES § 3 placeholder default applies with unusual force here, because
+    the plates spec § 3 placeholder default applies with unusual force here, because
     in the Northwest Territories the EMBLEM AND THE PLATE OUTLINE ARE THE SAME
     OBJECT. There is no emblem slot to placeholder out: the trade-marked bear IS
     the plate silhouette. Consequence for the render layer: NT cannot be
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ series:
     design:
       shape: polar-bear-silhouette
       shape_note: >-
-        THE SCHEMA KEY PRD-PLATES § 2.2 CREATED FOR THIS CASE. The plate outline
+        THE SCHEMA KEY the plates spec § 2.2 CREATED FOR THIS CASE. The plate outline
         is a polar bear in profile, not a rectangle. It is the territory's
         registered trade-mark (TMA558214) and is therefore recorded as a FACT
         and never reproduced. A renderer must not assume a rectangular viewBox,
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       PERIOD: 1986 comes only from the per-territory encyclopedia article's
       format table (six digits from 1986), which carries no footnote for that
-      row; it is tagged `secondary-wikipedia` per the PRD-PLATES § 4 Wikipedia
+      row; it is tagged `secondary-wikipedia` per the plates spec § 4 Wikipedia
       condition. Nothing in R-054-94 or the Act dates any serial length, and
       R-054-94 itself post-dates 1986 by eight years — an instrument that
       DOCUMENTS an older practice, which is precisely the case the
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ series:
       several serial series and is not used to date this one.
     sources:
       - "https://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/en/files/legislation/motor-vehicles/motor-vehicles.r12.pdf  # reg. 8(2)(i) 'regular, displaying numbers'"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northwest_Territories  # FINDING AID (PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia row): six digits from 1986, the 1970 bear shape, the 2010 update, the reported serial range; accessed 2026-08-02"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northwest_Territories  # FINDING AID (the plates spec §4 Wikipedia row): six digits from 1986, the 1970 bear shape, the 2010 update, the reported serial range; accessed 2026-08-02"
       - "https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/trademark-search/1050364  # the shape is a registered trade-mark of the GNWT"
 
   - id: ca-nt-regular-1970

data/data/plates/ca-nu.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ca-nu.yml — Nunavut (PRD-PLATES gate L3, Canada territories).
+# plates/ca-nu.yml — Nunavut (the plates spec gate L3, Canada territories).
 # THE OTHER NON-RECTANGULAR CASE, AND THE ONE THAT WENT AWAY AND CAME BACK.
 #
 # ── READ plates/ca-nt.yml FIRST. Nunavut's motor-vehicle law IS the Northwest
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 # SOURCING GRADE, STATED ONCE: with no reachable Nunavut instrument and no
 # reachable Nunavut agency page, this file's format and period claims rest on
 # (a) the per-territory encyclopedia article, used as a finding aid and tagged
-# `secondary-wikipedia` per the PRD-PLATES § 4 Wikipedia condition, and (b) one
+# `secondary-wikipedia` per the plates spec § 4 Wikipedia condition, and (b) one
 # Nunavut news outlet reporting a minister's statement in the Legislative
 # Assembly, which is a secondary report of a primary event and is graded
 # `secondary-dated`. The CIPO trade-mark record is the file's only primary
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ instrument:
       served today are post-1999 consolidations carrying amendments (R-034-2013,
       R-012-2025, R-037-2026 and others) that Nunavut never enacted. Reading
       today's NWT reg. 8(2) as Nunavut's plate-type list would be exactly the
-      instrument-date error the PRD's § 4 rule exists to prevent.
+      instrument-date error the spec's § 4 rule exists to prevent.
     source: "https://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/en/files/legislation/motor-vehicles/motor-vehicles.r12.pdf"
   trademark:
     citation: "CIPO application 1050364 / registration TMA558214, Government of the Northwest Territories, filed 2000-03-10, registered 2002-02-20, goods 'Licence plates', LIVE"
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ artwork_risk:
     third-party registration, and no theory of Crown copyright or edict-of-
     government reaches it.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES § 3 placeholder default applies to every graphic element
+    the plates spec § 3 placeholder default applies to every graphic element
     reported on the 2025 plate — the bear outline (encumbered as above), the
     inuksuk in the serial gap, and the star. As in the Northwest Territories,
     there is no separable emblem slot to placeholder out: the trade-marked shape
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ artwork_risk:
   syllabics_note: >-
     The Inuktitut wordmark ᓄᓇᕗᑦ is a legend, not artwork, and is reproduced here
     as text with its codepoints because identity IS form for a script (the
-    PRD-PLATES § 4 Wikipedia-row condition 3 principle, applied outside its
+    the plates spec § 4 Wikipedia-row condition 3 principle, applied outside its
     original context). It is never transliterated in this dataset.
   sources:
     - "https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/trademark-search/1050364"
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ series:
         the two three-digit groups. Under _meta/separators.yml that symbol is
         NOT a separator and must never be stripped as one or read as serial; the
         position is spelled with the sanctioned separator-only class `[- ]?`
-        (PRD-PLATES § 2.8), which is what an authority that prints a picture
+        (the plates spec § 2.8), which is what an authority that prints a picture
         rather than punctuation earns. `pattern` shows the canonical printed
         hyphen because the DSL has no way to show a picture, and that is a
         display convention, not a claim that a hyphen is printed.
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ series:
       unchanged design. Both are in this wave, both are 2025, and a schema that
       conflated base with format could model neither.
     sources:
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nunavut  # FINDING AID (PRD-PLATES §4 Wikipedia row): 2025 start, bear shape returning, six-digit serial, yellow border, inuksuk, star, syllabic legend, left-facing bear; accessed 2026-08-02"
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Nunavut  # FINDING AID (the plates spec §4 Wikipedia row): 2025 start, bear shape returning, six-digit serial, yellow border, inuksuk, star, syllabic legend, left-facing bear; accessed 2026-08-02"
       - "https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/polar-bear-licence-plates-coming-back-to-nunavut/  # 2024-11-08: the announcement, the 25th-anniversary rationale, the NWT agreement quote, the explicit absence of a roll-out date"
       - "https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/trademark-search/1050364  # the shape is the GNWT's registered trade-mark"
 

data/data/plates/ca-on.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ca-on.yml — Ontario, Canada (PRD-PLATES gate L2/L3, Canada east wave).
+# plates/ca-on.yml — Ontario, Canada (the plates spec gate L2/L3, Canada east wave).
 #
 # FEDERATED JURISDICTION, per-province file, exactly as the US states are cut
 # (us-fl.yml is the exemplar). Canada has NO federal plate mandate: every
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 #    2 to 5 characters." Everything else about Ontario serial shape in this file
 #    (ABCD 123, AB 12345, the motorcycle and trailer arrangements, the excluded
 #    letters G/I/O/Q/U) rests on the en.wikipedia Ontario article's tables, is
-#    tagged `secondary-wikipedia` per PRD-PLATES §4, and is flagged in terms.
+#    tagged `secondary-wikipedia` per the plates spec §4, and is flagged in terms.
 #
 # 4. FRONT AND REAR ARE PRESCRIBED, AND THE VALIDATION STICKER MOVES BETWEEN
 #    THEM BY VEHICLE CLASS. O. Reg. 628 s. 9(3), verbatim: "The number plates for
@@ -61,10 +61,10 @@
 #    It was announced by the Government of Ontario in April 2019, entered issue
 #    in February 2020, was recalled and then abandoned in May 2020, and the white
 #    "Yours to Discover" base resumed. Overlapping series are legal under
-#    PRD-PLATES §2.2 when the notes are distinct; here they are distinct because
+#    the plates spec §2.2 when the notes are distinct; here they are distinct because
 #    the two really were issued in parallel while blue stock was exhausted.
 #
-# SEPARATOR NOTE (PRD-PLATES §2.6): an Ontario plate prints NO separator glyph
+# SEPARATOR NOTE (the plates spec §2.6): an Ontario plate prints NO separator glyph
 # between the letter group and the digit group. What sits in the gap is a
 # SCREENED CROWN GRAPHIC (an emblem, carried in `design.emblem`, never in the
 # serial — the `never_separator` reasoning in _meta/separators.yml §4 exactly).
@@ -109,11 +109,11 @@ instrument:
     e-Laws content is published by the King's Printer for Ontario under the
     Government of Ontario's Open Government Licence. Independently, statutes and
     regulations are EDICTS OF GOVERNMENT and their text is uncopyrightable
-    (PRD-PLATES §4) — every verbatim quotation in this file is from that class of
+    (the plates spec §4) — every verbatim quotation in this file is from that class of
     material or from a ServiceOntario public information page.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# artwork_risk — carried here even though PRD-PLATES §7.1 makes it mandatory
+# artwork_risk — carried here even though the plates spec §7.1 makes it mandatory
 # only for US states, because the Canadian posture differs from every US state
 # and a renderer must not guess.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -129,14 +129,14 @@ artwork_risk:
     Act and Reg. 628, which is why this file quotes them freely; it does not free
     plate ARTWORK, the trillium graphic or the Ontario crown device.
   emblem_rule: >-
-    PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder default applies without exception. The crown
+    the plates spec §3 placeholder default applies without exception. The crown
     separator, the stylized white trillium of the 2020 base and the provincial
     wordmark are all rendered `placeholder` until affirmatively cleared per
     emblem. The Ontario crown is additionally a royal device with protection
     independent of copyright; that question is unresearched and flagged.
   photograph_caution: >-
     Commons photographs of Ontario plates carry the PHOTOGRAPHER's licence, not a
-    licence over the design (PRD-PLATES §6). Our renders are generated from this
+    licence over the design (the plates spec §6). Our renders are generated from this
     data, never derived from a photograph, so those obligations never attach.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ common:
       count on the ServiceOntario page (2-8 / 2-5), which is why
       `ca-on-personalized` is the only series in this file whose `regex` is
       authority-sourced end to end.
-    source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ontario  # FINDING AID + tagged secondary (PRD-PLATES §4, owner override 2026-08-02): passenger/commercial/motorcycle/trailer serial formats and the excluded-letter sets; article read 2026-08-02"
+    source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ontario  # FINDING AID + tagged secondary (the plates spec §4, owner override 2026-08-02): passenger/commercial/motorcycle/trailer serial formats and the excluded-letter sets; article read 2026-08-02"
   dimensions:
     note: >-
       NO ONTARIO PRIMARY PRESCRIBES A PLATE SIZE. The 6 in x 12 in
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ common:
     folklore_caution: >-
       The "1956 AMA / AAMVA standardization agreement" that supposedly fixed
       6 x 12 in is UNCITED in its Wikipedia source and is copied verbatim across
-      the Canada, US and Puerto Rico articles (circular). PRD-PLATES §4 records it
+      the Canada, US and Puerto Rico articles (circular). The plates spec §4 records it
       as commonly repeated, unsourced. It is NOT relied on here.
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ classes_not_modelled:
       A YEAR-OF-MANUFACTURE PLATE HAS NO FORMAT OF ITS OWN — it is a genuine
       historic Ontario plate of whatever year, re-authorised. Modelling it would
       mean authoring every Ontario series back to 1911, which is L4 scope
-      (PRD-PLATES §7). The class is recorded because the STATUTE creates it and
+      (the plates spec §7). The class is recorded because the STATUTE creates it and
       because a parse API must know that a pre-1973 Ontario shape on a modern road
       is lawful and dates the VEHICLE, not the registration.
     sources:
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ classes_not_modelled:
       characters (letters and/or numbers) without a graphic - $310 / 2 to 6
       characters (letters and/or numbers) with a graphic - $336.40".
     why_not_modelled: >-
-      PRD-PLATES §2.5 excludes the individual specialty DESIGN catalogue from v1;
+      the plates spec §2.5 excludes the individual specialty DESIGN catalogue from v1;
       L2 indexes programs, L4 does designs. The graphic budget is carried instead
       as a variant on `ca-on-personalized`, where it belongs, because the SERIAL
       grammar is what changes.
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ series:
         The French-slogan plate is the SAME series in a different bottom legend,
         allocated its own serial blocks (F-block exclusively since April 2019 per
         the article). It is recorded as a variant rather than a series because
-        format and period are identical — the PRD-PLATES §2.3 test.
+        format and period are identical — the plates spec §2.3 test.
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, description: "provincial crown device, screened, between the letter and numeral groups" }
       band: { side: none }
       rear_differs: false
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h08  # HTA s. 7(1)(b)(i): the plate shows 'the number of the permit issued for the vehicle'; s. 7(24) regulation-making power, which reaches display and never composition"
       - "https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/900628  # R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 628 s. 9(1),(3): front-and-rear display and the rear-plate validation corner"
       - "https://www.ontario.ca/page/register-vehicle-permit-and-licence-plate  # ServiceOntario: 'Vehicle permits and licence plates are issued immediately'; automatic renewal for passenger, light commercial, motorcycle and moped plates"
-      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ontario  # TAGGED SECONDARY (PRD-PLATES §4): the ABCD-123 format, its 1997 start, and the G/I/O/Q/U exclusion. Read 2026-08-02. The article's own citation for the exclusion is a collector site, not a government source."
+      - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ontario  # TAGGED SECONDARY (the plates spec §4): the ABCD-123 format, its 1997 start, and the G/I/O/Q/U exclusion. Read 2026-08-02. The article's own citation for the exclusion is a collector site, not a government source."
     notes: >-
       THE CURRENT ONTARIO PASSENGER PLATE, and the whole of it rests on a
       SECONDARY for its start year — which is stated here rather than hidden.
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ series:
       Ontario base or format, and the statute and regulation are silent on
       composition (`common.charset.statutory_alphabet_absent`). So
       `period_evidence: secondary-wikipedia` and 1997 is a flagged claim, not an
-      asserted fact (PRD-PLATES §9: primary-source-or-marked). WHAT IS
+      asserted fact (the plates spec §9: primary-source-or-marked). WHAT IS
       INDEPENDENTLY SOLID: that this format is CURRENT ISSUE is confirmed by
       ServiceOntario's own personalized-plate page, which prices passenger plates
       at "2 to 8 characters" and therefore presupposes a seven-character standard
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ series:
       are all quoted from the Act and the regulation. THE ID IS DATED because the
       1997 boundary is at least consistently reported across the article's own
       issuance ranges; if a primary lands that moves it, the dated id gains a
-      former-id alias under the PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6 contract rather than moving.
+      former-id alias under the quality spec I-5/I-6 contract rather than moving.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # ONE SERIES BACK — three numerals, three letters (1986-1997).
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ontario  # TAGGED SECONDARY: 123-ABC issued 1986-1997, ranges 001-AAA to 999-ZZZ; the 1994 switch to screened reflective plates inside the same format"
       - "https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h08  # HTA s. 11(3): plates of this vintage remain lawfully transferable between the holder's vehicles of a similar class, which is why the series has no hard end for DISPLAY purposes"
     notes: >-
-      THE IMMEDIATELY PRIOR PASSENGER FORMAT, authored because PRD-PLATES scopes
+      THE IMMEDIATELY PRIOR PASSENGER FORMAT, authored because the plates spec scopes
       L2/L3 at the current series plus ONE back, and because Ontario plates are
       permanent: since 1973 the province has not re-plated annually, so
       123-ABC plates remain lawfully displayed in quantity. The period END is an
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ series:
       hence `secondary-wikipedia`. The 1994 change from embossed to screened
       reflective plates happened INSIDE this format and is not cut as a series:
       format, period and colours were unchanged and only the manufacturing method
-      moved (PRD-PLATES §2.3).
+      moved (the plates spec §2.3).
 
   # =========================================================================
   # THE 2020 BLUE BASE — a real four-month series, announced, issued, recalled.
@@ -472,13 +472,13 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Ontario  # TAGGED SECONDARY: issue from 1 February 2020, initial batch recalled after 4 March 2020, design scrapped 6 May 2020, blue stock exhausted through early June; serials CMAA-001 onward; the French 'EN PLEIN ESSOR' variant on F-block serials"
     notes: >-
       THE BLUE PLATE. Its own series because BOTH the design and the period differ
-      from ca-on-standard-1997 while the format does not (PRD-PLATES §2.3), and
+      from ca-on-standard-1997 while the format does not (the plates spec §2.3), and
       because a consumer holding a photograph of a blue Ontario plate needs to be
       told it is a four-month artefact rather than a current base. OVERLAP IS
       DELIBERATE AND REAL: white "Yours to Discover" plates never stopped being
       issued in French-slogan blocks and resumed in full in May 2020 while blue
       stock ran out, so this series and ca-on-standard-1997 genuinely overlap in
-      2020 — the parallel-issuance case PRD-PLATES §2.2 contemplates. EVERY DATE
+      2020 — the parallel-issuance case the plates spec §2.2 contemplates. EVERY DATE
       HERE IS SECONDARY. The Government of Ontario's own April 2019 announcement
       and its February 2020 update are cited by the article and were BOTH
       unreachable on 2026-08-02 (news.ontario.ca returned an empty body to the
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ series:
         notes: >-
           No letter exclusion is stated for the commercial format by any source
           located, so NO `regex_strict` is authored — the absence is deliberate and
-          is not the same as "no exclusions exist". PRD-PLATES §2.7: a missing
+          is not the same as "no exclusions exist". The plates spec §2.7: a missing
           strict twin does not weaken `matching: strict`.
       progression: "AA-10001 upward per the article's issuance record; a separate D-block (DA-10001 onward) carries the French slogan"
     design: