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Iowa — Code of Iowa

Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the State of Iowa across all 16 active titles and 1,282 distinct chapters, cryptographically sealed from official Iowa Legislature Legislative Services Agency (legis.iowa.gov) sources.

16 Active Titles
1,282 Distinct Chapters
26,831 Statutory Sections
146,021 Subsections
26,629 Citation Edges
100% AKN 3.0 XSD Valid
Single-Snapshot Dataset Acquisition • 10/2026 Edition

Code of Iowa — Complete Medallion Snapshot

One-time purchase for the complete October 2026 (10/2026) edition single-snapshot dataset of the Code of Iowa. 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 Iowa 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 Iowa Legislature Legislative Services Agency (legis.iowa.gov) with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.

  • Source Authority Iowa General Assembly
  • Sealed Payloads 26,831 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 26,831 / 26,831 (100%)
  • History Coverage 26,831 / 26,831 (100.0%)
  • 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 26,831 Rows (20.91 MB)
  • Subsection Table 146,021 Rows (18.89 MB)
  • Citation Graph 26,629 Directed Edges
  • DuckDB Catalog keystone_iacode.duckdb
Artifact / Archive Layer / Format Records Size SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal
sections.parquet Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet) 26,831 20.91 MB 6ea1c4a051a291d1dc35687f9dfcfc3ba0e98db2ad303043bad7431e31ac681b
subsections.parquet Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet) 146,021 18.89 MB 708ed28384f7e09220d19ff239430a1a8086886d4072bc3142950483be4e0ee9
edges.parquet Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet) 26,629 391.16 KB 3659452cb00ae853980b08cb4a04ed3ca12b8c1b6860496c862fd1d07f40a29e
keystone_iacode_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests) 26,831 files 17.32 MB 3dfae24832c3aa88a8afb7daf6c2e35ee9ece70d89c34de57e604ee9a890cf94
keystone_iacode_silver_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests) 26,831 docs 23.57 MB 2735ce60282ba8ee12108daa1f00f62688995d3232d04ce1853f7ffe0e7c0d44
keystone_iacode_gold_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests) 199,481 34.53 MB e20addeaacdf6090a1f5b74a35d5921c7225a40d59975166d3c62d0aa7b3272b
keystone_iacode_titleI_sample.tar.gz Title I Sample Showcase Slice (Title I — State Sovereignty and Management (Ch. 1 - 38D)) 2,437 secs 3.19 MB e74e2e4b22fe2279a992c6d14b502f06d1593051465e2cbdbad2ab41836273b6

Canonical Record Specimen: Iowa Code § 1.16

Side-by-side view of Section 1.16 (Concurrent jurisdiction over lands and waters dedicated to national park purposes.) in Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML and Gold Parquet JSON representation.
data/silver/iacode/akn_xml/title_I/iacode-1.16.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-ia/act/iacode/title-i/section-1.16"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-10-17" name="snapshot"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="US-IA"/>
        </FRBRWork>
      </identification>
      <proprietary source="#pipeline">
        <meta:source_html_sha256>36c285004ec6a6a1...bde62</meta:source_html_sha256>
        <meta:doc_id>iacode-1.16</meta:doc_id>
        <meta:jurisdiction>US-IA</meta:jurisdiction>
        <meta:container_id>I</meta:container_id>
        <meta:chapter_id>1</meta:chapter_id>
        <meta:chapter_name>SOVEREIGNTY AND JURISDICTION OF THE STATE</meta:chapter_name>
        <meta:history_note>84 Acts, ch 1024, §1</meta:history_note>
      </proprietary>
    </meta>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec_1.16">
        <num>1.16</num>
        <heading>Concurrent jurisdiction over lands and waters dedicated to national park purposes.</heading>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1_16__para_1" class="indent-1">
          <num>1.</num>
          <content>
            <p>1. Concurrent legislative jurisdiction over crimes and
            offenses under the laws of the state of Iowa is ceded to the
            United States over and within all lands and waters within the
            state dedicated to national park purposes.</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1_16__para_2" class="indent-1">
          <num>2.</num>
          <content>
            <p>2. The concurrent jurisdiction ceded by subsection 1 is vested
            upon acceptance by the United States by and through its
            appropriate officials and shall continue so long as the lands
            and waters within the designated a...</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <!-- 2 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 = "iacode-1.16")
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-IA",
  "doc_id": "iacode-1.16",
  "universal_doc_id": "US-IA-iacode-1.16",
  "container_type": "title",
  "container_id": "I",
  "container_name": "Title I — State Sovereignty and Management (Ch. 1 - 38D)",
  "title": 1,
  "chapter_id": "1",
  "chapter_name": "SOVEREIGNTY AND JURISDICTION OF THE STATE",
  "subchapter_id": "1",
  "subchapter_name": "SOVEREIGNTY AND JURISDICTION OF THE STATE",
  "section_number": "1.16",
  "heading": "Concurrent jurisdiction over lands and waters dedicated to national park purposes.",
  "paragraph_count": 4,
  "history_note": "84 Acts, ch 1024, §1",
  "source_html_sha256": "36c285004ec6a6a13412e2cb15d2857218f821b1b5938ac8b85abdc28c6bde62",
  "akn_sha256": "532863986dca870ac0a2d28004bcdf937b9f7d29697bd1695f7c01dd787bca65"
}

// 2. subsections.parquet (4 rows for iacode-1.16)
{
  "doc_id": "iacode-1.16",
  "paragraph_eid": "sec_1_16__para_1",
  "paragraph_seq": 1,
  "enum_label": "1.",
  "indent_level": 1,
  "text": "1. Concurrent legislative jurisdiction over crimes and offenses under the laws of the state of Iowa is ceded to the United States over and within all lands and waters within the state dedicated to national park purposes."
}

// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in Code of Iowa)
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-IA",
  "source_doc_id": "iacode-1.11",
  "source_section": "1.11",
  "target_doc_id": "iacode-1.4",
  "target_section": "1.4",
  "target_title": 1,
  "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-IA), collection-scoped primary key (iacode-1.16), and global key.
container_type / container_id / container_name VARCHAR Top-level statutory container metadata (e.g., title, I, Title I — State Sovereignty and Management (Ch. 1 - 38D)).
chapter_id / chapter_name VARCHAR Intermediate chapter/article identifier and official heading (100% populated across all 26,831 sections).
section_number / heading VARCHAR Canonical section number (e.g., 1.16) 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 (26,831 / 26,831 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_16__para_1) 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 16-Title Inventory (Code of Iowa)

Breakdown of distinct chapters and statutory sections across all 16 active titles in the October 2026 edition.
Title Title Heading Chapters Sections
Title ITitle I — State Sovereignty and Management (Ch. 1 - 38D)1162,437
Title IITitle II — Elections and Official Duties (Ch. 39 - 79)43922
Title IIITitle III — Public Services and Regulation (Ch. 80 - 122C)651,171
Title IVTitle IV — Public Health (Ch. 123 - 158)1031,647
Title VTitle V — Agriculture (Ch. 159 - 215A)861,470
Title VITitle VI — Human Services (Ch. 216 - 255A)721,538
Title VIITitle VII — Education, History, and Culture (Ch. 256 - 305B)771,438
Title VIIITitle VIII — Transportation (Ch. 306 - 330B)641,735
Title IXTitle IX — Local Government (Ch. 331 - 420)641,416
Title XTitle X — Financial Resources (Ch. 421 - 454)501,068
Title XITitle XI — Natural Resources (Ch. 455 - 485)641,965
Title XIITitle XII — Business Entities (Ch. 486 - 504C)251,511
Title XIIITitle XIII — Commerce (Ch. 505 - 554I)1553,517
Title XIVTitle XIV — Property (Ch. 555 - 594A)60683
Title XVTitle XV — Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures (Ch. 595 - 686D)1182,917
Title XVITitle XVI — Criminal Law and Procedure (Ch. 687 - 916)1201,396
Total (16 Titles) Complete Code of Iowa Corpus 1,282 26,831