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Arkansas — Arkansas Code of 1987

Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the State of Arkansas across all 28 active titles and 1,165 distinct chapters, cryptographically sealed from official Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research and Arkansas Code Revision Commission sources.

28 Active Titles
1,165 Distinct Chapters
37,488 Statutory Sections
240,754 Subsections
22,945 Citation Edges
100% AKN 3.0 XSD Valid
Single-Snapshot Dataset Acquisition • 10/2026 Edition

Arkansas Code of 1987 — Complete Medallion Snapshot

One-time purchase for the complete October 2026 (10/2026) edition single-snapshot dataset of the Arkansas Code of 1987. 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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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 Arkansas 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 legislative 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 Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research and Arkansas Code Revision Commission with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.

  • Source Authority Arkansas General Assembly
  • Sealed Payloads 37,488 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 37,488 / 37,488 (100%)
  • History Coverage 37,432 / 37,488 (99.9%)
  • 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 37,488 Rows (25.32 MB)
  • Subsection Table 240,754 Rows (23.55 MB)
  • Citation Graph 22,945 Directed Edges
  • DuckDB Catalog keystone_arcode.duckdb
Artifact / Archive Layer / Format Records Size SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal
sections.parquet Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet) 37,488 25.32 MB 221c977a04c82843ed7a1a17fc0fe614bffb3660e55820f46041e1692fc62101
subsections.parquet Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet) 240,754 23.55 MB b4b8b4739e249939c9df030c0dbbe3fcf0f1195c0fbc8999768f0b82cb8fdb83
edges.parquet Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet) 22,945 356.13 KB 06c8d376415efcb5525a4ec7cbf0c2f06635c4671a34ac2c33ce347a56dc904d
keystone_arcode_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests) 37,488 files 33.39 MB 5933964a8d3124274783c342700605fa02ce2c120ff956c2369077fb947f751e
keystone_arcode_silver_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests) 37,488 docs 29.82 MB 6cb25dee58c182d40aedbf81a81df8113fde931fd398c9fa06893f1b19da70b3
keystone_arcode_gold_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests) 301,187 41.35 MB e993883c23fe9a3134a37e56da9fde1b03375138ed3270d82a684b2165fdeccf
keystone_arcode_title1_sample.tar.gz Title 1 Sample Showcase Slice (General Provisions) 118 secs 113.62 KB 3125a7f140794315659143b7dd13b43bd7923ca98b0a6982b7031cfb55320be7

Canonical Record Specimen: Ark. Code § 1-1-102

Side-by-side view of Section 1-1-102 (Signature by mark) in Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML and Gold Parquet JSON representation.
data/silver/arcode/akn_xml/title_01/ARCODE-1-1-102.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-ar/act/arcode/title-1/section-1-1-102"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-10-16" name="snapshot"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="US-AR"/>
        </FRBRWork>
      </identification>
      <proprietary source="#pipeline">
        <meta:source_html_sha256>e809f5cdd8bfad9d...ecc58</meta:source_html_sha256>
        <meta:doc_id>ARCODE-1-1-102</meta:doc_id>
        <meta:jurisdiction>US-AR</meta:jurisdiction>
        <meta:container_id>01</meta:container_id>
        <meta:chapter_id>1</meta:chapter_id>
        <meta:chapter_name>General Provisions</meta:chapter_name>
        <meta:history_note>Acts 2009, No. 412, § 1.</meta:history_note>
      </proprietary>
    </meta>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec_1-1-102">
        <num>1-1-102</num>
        <heading>Signature by mark</heading>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1-102__para_1" class="indent-1">
          <content>
            <p>In addition to the provisions of §§ 4-3-401 , 7-5-305 ,
            7-7-308 , 27-14-705 , and 28-25-103 , a signature by mark on a
            document is legal for the purposes of executing the document
            if the signature is:</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1-102__para_2" class="indent-2">
          <num>(1)</num>
          <content>
            <p>(1) Made by a person who at the time of signature lacks the
            ability to:</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <!-- 3 additional paragraph(s) omitted for brevity -->
      </section>
    </body>
  </act>
</akomaNtoso>
gold.sections / gold.subsections / gold.edges Gold Parquet Row 
// 1. sections.parquet (Primary Key: doc_id = "ARCODE-1-1-102")
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-AR",
  "doc_id": "ARCODE-1-1-102",
  "universal_doc_id": "US-AR-ARCODE-1-1-102",
  "container_type": "title",
  "container_id": "01",
  "container_name": "General Provisions",
  "title": 1,
  "chapter_id": "1",
  "chapter_name": "General Provisions",
  "subchapter_id": "",
  "subchapter_name": "",
  "section_number": "1-1-102",
  "heading": "Signature by mark",
  "paragraph_count": 5,
  "history_note": "Acts 2009, No. 412, § 1.",
  "source_html_sha256": "e809f5cdd8bfad9d2ca4236427c49b5aad310a3c15a631241b2e4573be1ecc58",
  "akn_sha256": "2c43a4b90bf2f700c65edc0d57277f600cdaa49911607c59f972d5af53d9abde"
}

// 2. subsections.parquet (5 rows for ARCODE-1-1-102)
{
  "doc_id": "ARCODE-1-1-102",
  "paragraph_eid": "sec_1-1-102__para_2",
  "paragraph_seq": 2,
  "enum_label": "(1)",
  "indent_level": 2,
  "text": "(1) Made by a person who at the time of signature lacks the ability to:"
}

// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in Arkansas Code of 1987)
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-AR",
  "source_doc_id": "ARCODE-1-1-102",
  "source_section": "1-1-102",
  "target_doc_id": "ARCODE-27-14-705",
  "target_section": "27-14-705",
  "target_title": 27,
  "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 Jurisdiction code (US-AR), collection-scoped primary key (ARCODE-1-1-102), and global key.
container_type / container_id / container_name VARCHAR Top-level statutory container metadata (e.g., title, 01, General Provisions).
chapter_id / chapter_name VARCHAR Intermediate chapter/article identifier and official heading (100% populated across all 37,488 sections).
section_number / heading VARCHAR Canonical section number (e.g., 1-1-102) 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 (37,432 / 37,488 sections populated).
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_1-1-102__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.
source_section / target_section / citation_count VARCHAR / INT64 Canonical section numbers and frequency count of cross-references between the pair.

Complete 28-Title Inventory (Arkansas Code of 1987)

Breakdown of distinct chapters and statutory sections across all 28 active titles in the October 2026 edition.
Title Title Heading Chapters Sections
Title 1General Provisions5118
Title 2Agriculture31767
Title 3Alcoholic Beverages9474
Title 4Business and Commercial Law812,384
Title 5Criminal Offenses511,082
Title 6Education572,754
Title 7Elections11338
Title 8Environmental Law15574
Title 9Family Law29837
Title 10General Assembly5259
Title 11Labor and Industrial Relations15537
Title 12Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs481,286
Title 13Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources14275
Title 14Local Government1764,283
Title 15Natural Resources and Economic Development391,665
Title 16Practice, Procedure, and Courts942,471
Title 17Professions, Occupations, and Businesses781,964
Title 18Property27777
Title 19Public Finance121,200
Title 20Public Health and Welfare602,664
Title 21Public Officers and Employees15471
Title 22Public Property10482
Title 23Public Utilities and Regulated Industries923,854
Title 24Retirement and Pensions12742
Title 25State Government43685
Title 26Taxation471,923
Title 27Transportation521,824
Title 28Wills, Estates, and Fiduciary Relationships37798
Total (28 Titles) Complete Arkansas Code of 1987 Corpus 1,165 37,488