Alabama — Code of Alabama 1975

Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the State of Alabama across all 46 active Titles (Title 1 through Title 45), cryptographically sealed from official Alabama Legislative Services Agency (ALISON) sources.

46 Active Titles

1,506 Distinct Chapters

49,270 Statutory Sections

197,421 Subsections

15,000 Citation Edges

100% AKN 3.0 XSD Valid

Single-Snapshot Dataset Acquisition • 10/2026 Edition

Code of Alabama 1975 — Complete Medallion Snapshot

One-time purchase for the complete October 2026 (10/2026) edition single-snapshot dataset of the Code of Alabama 1975. Includes perpetual commercial license rights to the Bronze raw source payloads, Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML archive, Gold Apache Parquet tables (sections, subsections, edges), and SHA-256 provenance manifests.

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Keystone Legal Data — Commercial Dataset License Agreement Standard Single-Snapshot Terms (v2026.10)

1. Grant of Perpetual Single-Snapshot License

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2. Permitted Enterprise, Analytics & AI/LLM Uses

Licensee may freely integrate the Licensed Dataset into internal data warehouses, legal research platforms, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, vector databases, knowledge graphs, and machine learning or large language model (LLM) training, fine-tuning, and inference systems, and may display statutory excerpts and citation outputs to end users in the ordinary course of Licensee's products and services.

3. Restrictions on Bulk Redistribution

While the underlying enacted statutory text of the State of Alabama is in the public domain under the government edicts doctrine, the normalized schema, structural subsection shredding, OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML markup, resolved citation graph topology, and cryptographic lineage manifests are proprietary data engineering deliverables of Licensor. Licensee may not resell, sublicense, publish, or redistribute the Licensed Dataset in bulk or as a standalone statutory data product or competing data catalog.

4. Provenance & Disclaimer of Warranties

Every record in the Licensed Dataset is cryptographically sealed via SHA-256 to its source legislative payload as published by the official state authority as of the snapshot date. The Licensed Dataset is provided "AS IS" for analytical and informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. Licensor's aggregate liability under this Agreement shall not exceed the license fee paid for the snapshot.

Medallion Architecture Deliverables

Three-tier statutory distribution with end-to-end SHA-256 cryptographic lineage from raw legislative payload to analytical Parquet tables.

Bronze Layer

Immutable Source Payloads

Verbatim section payloads captured from the Alabama Legislative Information System Online (ALISON) with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.

Source Authority Alabama Legislature
Sealed Payloads 49,270 Files
Lineage Manifest bronze_manifest.jsonl
Integrity Seal manifest.sha256 (0444)

Silver Layer

OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML

Normalized, schema-validated OASIS LegalDocML (Akoma Ntoso 3.0) XML documents containing strictly enacted statutory text, subsection hierarchy, and session-law history citations.

XML Standard OASIS AKN 3.0 (XSD 1.0)
Validated Docs 49,270 / 49,270 (100%)
History Coverage 48,173 / 49,270 (97.8%)
Third-Party IP / Notes 0 (Strictly Stripped)

Gold Layer

Apache Parquet & Citation Graph

Snappy-compressed Apache Parquet tables (sections, subsections, edges) and pre-indexed DuckDB analytical catalog ready for immediate SQL, Polars, PyArrow, or RAG/LLM ingestion.

Section Table 49,270 Rows (35.93 MB)
Subsection Table 197,421 Rows (32.22 MB)
Citation Graph 15,000 Directed Edges
DuckDB Catalog keystone_alcode.duckdb

Artifact / Archive	Layer / Format	Records	Size	SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal
sections.parquet	Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet)	49,270	35.93 MB	b4732c0a0666986a807aa5b96eba9f6cce70f296901ec3e87165d05e379a469f
subsections.parquet	Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet)	197,421	32.22 MB	914f7a6c40cc35b35668c8e7307db1014a872e5f16e2afe1faf225db66cd0ab3
edges.parquet	Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet)	15,000	290.65 KB	7cad2cfa55146948cba12f802cdb063671a9683fcd358bab77788998b5c514ac
keystone_alcode_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests)	49,270 files	28.88 MB	0a86293660a96e8ba0fa24d8ffe6c531e06327519ac9cf2a0dce8d9a7e506523
keystone_alcode_silver_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests)	49,270 docs	38.77 MB	d7024b7d52b0818c4a8644757fec47343f22d3f1a03ea4784d01efedf565d28f
keystone_alcode_gold_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests)	261,691	61.40 MB	9cbb1df7984dab7681904335d990d4e67009244627788d664a40f201fa989544
keystone_alcode_title30_sample.tar.gz	Title 30 Sample Showcase Slice (Marital & Domestic Relations)	468 secs	1.12 MB	7c023fc8f025a61b482ce9a2d1af60b695d5c8e1f11de6357a847fd62f37b96d

Canonical Record Specimen: Ala. Code § 1-1-1

Side-by-side view of Section 1-1-1 (Meaning of Certain Words and Terms) in Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML and Gold Parquet JSON representation.

            data/silver/alcode/akn_xml/title_01/ALCODE-1-1-1.xml
            Silver OASIS AKN 3.0
          

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<akomaNtoso xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0"
            xmlns:meta="https://pipeline.local/schema/meta">
  <act name="statute">
    <meta>
      <identification source="#pipeline">
        <FRBRWork>
          <FRBRthis value="/us-al/act/alcode/title-1/section-1-1-1"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-10-15" name="snapshot"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="US-AL"/>
        </FRBRWork>
      </identification>
      <proprietary source="#pipeline">
        <meta:source_html_sha256>914ec68f28d81424...5e27c</meta:source_html_sha256>
        <meta:doc_id>ALCODE-1-1-1</meta:doc_id>
        <meta:jurisdiction>US-AL</meta:jurisdiction>
        <meta:container_id>1</meta:container_id>
        <meta:chapter_id>1</meta:chapter_id>
        <meta:chapter_name>Construction of Code and Statutes</meta:chapter_name>
        <meta:history_note>Code 1852, §§1, 2, 4-8; ... Act 2025-3; §3.</meta:history_note>
      </proprietary>
    </meta>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec_1-1-1">
        <num>1-1-1</num>
        <heading>Meaning of Certain Words and Terms.</heading>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1-1__para_1" class="indent-1">
          <content>
            <p>The following words, whenever they appear in this code, have
            the following meanings unless otherwise apparent from the context
            or otherwise explicitly defined:</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1-1__para_2" class="indent-2">
          <num>(1)</num>
          <content>
            <p>(1) BOY. A human male who has not yet reached adulthood.</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <!-- Paragraphs (2) through (19) omitted for brevity -->
      </section>
    </body>
  </act>
</akomaNtoso>

            gold.sections / gold.subsections / gold.edges
            Gold Parquet Row
          

// 1. sections.parquet (Primary Key: doc_id = "ALCODE-1-1-1")
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-AL",
  "doc_id": "ALCODE-1-1-1",
  "universal_doc_id": "US-AL-ALCODE-1-1-1",
  "container_type": "title",
  "container_id": "1",
  "container_name": "General Provisions",
  "title": 1,
  "chapter_id": "1",
  "chapter_name": "Construction of Code and Statutes",
  "subchapter_id": "",
  "subchapter_name": "",
  "section_number": "1-1-1",
  "heading": "Meaning of Certain Words and Terms.",
  "paragraph_count": 20,
  "history_note": "Code 1852, §§1, 2, 4-8; Code 1867, §§1, 2, 4-8; ... Act 2025-3; §3.",
  "source_html_sha256": "914ec68f28d8142465c6d5290bfa606d159bdc9c3ffdf4270d3c1e675845e27c",
  "akn_sha256": "bcc62ada8ef627b2c1e23b8845468e4ae18b60871cbbfe639f9a6ea224636cfa"
}

// 2. subsections.parquet (20 rows for ALCODE-1-1-1)
{
  "doc_id": "ALCODE-1-1-1",
  "paragraph_eid": "sec_1-1-1__para_2",
  "paragraph_seq": 2,
  "enum_label": "(1)",
  "indent_level": 2,
  "text": "(1) BOY. A human male who has not yet reached adulthood."
}

// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in Title 1)
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-AL",
  "source_doc_id": "ALCODE-1-1-3",
  "source_section": "1-1-3",
  "target_doc_id": "ALCODE-38-4-1",
  "target_section": "38-4-1",
  "target_title": 38,
  "citation_count": 1
}

Gold Parquet Schema Specification

Standardized cross-jurisdiction schema shared across all 57 Keystone Legal Data statutory repositories.

Table	Column Name	Parquet Type	Description
sections.parquet	jurisdiction / doc_id / universal_doc_id	VARCHAR	ISO jurisdiction code (`US-AL`), collection-scoped primary key (`ALCODE-1-1-1`), and global key.
	container_type / container_id / container_name	VARCHAR	Top-level statutory container metadata (e.g., `title`, `10A`, `Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code`).
	chapter_id / chapter_name	VARCHAR	Intermediate chapter identifier and official chapter heading (100% populated across all 49,270 sections).
	section_number / heading	VARCHAR	Canonical section number (e.g., `1-1-1`) and cleaned catchline heading.
	full_text	VARCHAR	Complete, newline-delimited statutory text of the section (strictly enacted text only).
	history_note	VARCHAR	Legislative session-law enactment and amendment history citations (e.g., `Acts 1951, No. 268, p. 551; Act 2025-3, §3`).
	paragraph_count	INT64	Number of child subsection paragraphs shredded into `subsections.parquet`.
	source_html_sha256 / akn_sha256	VARCHAR	Cryptographic SHA-256 digests linking the Gold row to its exact Silver XML and Bronze raw payload.
subsections.parquet	paragraph_eid / paragraph_seq	VARCHAR / INT64	OASIS AKN 3.0 element ID (`sec_1-1-1__para_2`) and deterministic 1-based sequence order within the section.
	enum_label / indent_level	VARCHAR / INT64	Extracted structural enumerator (e.g., `(a)`, `(1)`, `a.`) and hierarchical indentation depth (`1`–`6`).
	text	VARCHAR	Cleaned text of the individual statutory subsection or paragraph.
edges.parquet	source_doc_id / target_doc_id	VARCHAR	Directed citation graph edge resolving in-text statutory references from citing section to cited target section.
edges.parquet	source_section / target_section / citation_count	VARCHAR / INT64	Canonical section numbers and frequency count of cross-references between the pair.

Complete 46-Title Inventory (Code of Alabama 1975)

Breakdown of chapters and statutory sections across all 46 active Titles in the October 2026 edition.

Title	Title Heading	Chapters	Sections
Title 1	General Provisions	5	84
Title 2	Agriculture	40	1,215
Title 3	Animals	12	105
Title 4	Aviation	10	177
Title 5	Banks and Financial Institutions	30	627
Title 6	Civil Practice	13	908
Title 7	Commercial Code	15	739
Title 8	Commercial Law and Consumer Protection	68	1,067
Title 9	Conservation and Natural Resources	34	1,301
Title 10	Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations	20	955
Title 10A	Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code	20	1,506
Title 11	Counties and Municipal Corporations	142	3,937
Title 12	Courts	32	1,270
Title 13A	Criminal Code	14	860
Title 14	Criminal Correctional and Detention Facilities	16	348
Title 15	Criminal Procedure	29	817
Title 16	Education	136	2,236
Title 17	Elections	17	485
Title 18	Eminent Domain	5	155
Title 19	Fiduciaries and Trusts	12	382
Title 20	Food, Drugs and Cosmetics	5	243
Title 21	Handicapped Persons	10	116
Title 22	Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control	94	1,656
Title 23	Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries	8	359
Title 24	Housing	15	233
Title 25	Industrial Relations and Labor	17	592
Title 26	Infants and Incompetents	44	761
Title 27	Insurance	93	1,545
Title 28	Intoxicating Liquor, Malt Beverages and Wine	19	468
Title 29	Legislature	17	271
Title 30	Marital and Domestic Relations	15	468
Title 31	Military Affairs and Civil Defense	23	600
Title 32	Motor Vehicles and Traffic	33	960
Title 33	Navigation and Watercourses	21	531
Title 34	Professions and Businesses	67	1,984
Title 35	Property	28	848
Title 36	Public Officers and Employees	47	1,126
Title 37	Public Utilities and Public Transportation	23	612
Title 38	Public Welfare	26	259
Title 39	Public Works	8	81
Title 40	Revenue and Taxation	53	2,062
Title 41	State Government	42	1,985
Title 42	United States	3	17
Title 43	Wills and Decedents' Estates	4	481
Title 44	Youth Services	3	76
Title 45	Local Laws	118	11,762
Total (46 Titles)	Complete Code of Alabama 1975 Corpus	1,506	49,270