Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the State of Maryland across all 36 active articles and 715 distinct titles, cryptographically sealed from official Maryland General Assembly Department of Legislative Services (mgaleg.maryland.gov) sources.
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Verbatim section payloads captured from the Maryland General Assembly Department of Legislative Services (mgaleg.maryland.gov) with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.
Normalized, schema-validated OASIS LegalDocML (Akoma Ntoso 3.0) XML documents containing strictly enacted statutory text, subsection hierarchy, and session-law history citations.
Snappy-compressed Apache Parquet tables (sections, subsections, edges) and pre-indexed DuckDB analytical catalog ready for immediate SQL, Polars, PyArrow, or RAG/LLM ingestion.
| Artifact / Archive | Layer / Format | Records | Size | SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sections.parquet | Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet) | 40,043 | 28.08 MB | 236d04f78d0c35e4ed42a11d7d866e39fa59cc96e7347c9f24d24d3686440d91 |
| subsections.parquet | Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet) | 430,852 | 29.50 MB | 95e4d50e9148034363e1793f630ccaa96042b6367982eca5100fc9b83e52823d |
| edges.parquet | Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet) | 32,790 | 524.17 KB | 09b9d7c424dea4ec8dc90405dd4253e41a8cb1af9514da111ea545819fb81658 |
| keystone_mdcode_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz | Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests) | 40,043 files | 25.17 MB | 1cd62cde032e3760518e3a91041d680b1a2cea77a7ad54e1683a212b14240345 |
| keystone_mdcode_silver_2026-10.tar.gz | Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests) | 40,043 docs | 34.49 MB | d7462bd0aab11d628d5dbd6543a0b8c6efeafc859d158a832400f0c37f582941 |
| keystone_mdcode_gold_2026-10.tar.gz | Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests) | 503,685 | 48.30 MB | 2d61ec85cece54578a470bd94e088cf75d67de6195f29a8fb351b28d53c811b7 |
| keystone_mdcode_title1_sample.tar.gz | Art. AG Sample Showcase Slice (Agriculture) | 784 secs | 847.16 KB | b6aea3e8843aebb2a8895c10ad37f065571f6e8fa051b29c391bc5f7ced8863f |
<?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-md/act/mdcode/article-ag/section-AG-1-101"/>
<FRBRdate date="2026-10-22" name="snapshot"/>
<FRBRcountry value="US-MD"/>
</FRBRWork>
</identification>
<proprietary source="#pipeline">
<meta:source_html_sha256>20842bbbd3be2850...ca29e</meta:source_html_sha256>
<meta:doc_id>MDCODE-AG-1-101</meta:doc_id>
<meta:jurisdiction>US-MD</meta:jurisdiction>
<meta:container_id>AG</meta:container_id>
<meta:chapter_id>AG-1</meta:chapter_id>
<meta:chapter_name>Title 1</meta:chapter_name>
<meta:history_note>Md. Code, Agriculture § 1-101 (MGA 2027RS). Recent Legislative Actions: (a) without amendments (SB0242 /...</meta:history_note>
</proprietary>
</meta>
<body>
<section eId="sec_AG-1-101">
<num>AG-1-101</num>
<heading>Definitions</heading>
<paragraph eId="sec_AG-1-101__para_1" class="indent-1">
<num>(a)</num>
<content>
<p>(a) In this article the following words have the meanings
indicated.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="sec_AG-1-101__para_2" class="indent-1">
<num>(b)</num>
<content>
<p>(b) “Any state” means any state, possession or territory of
the United States, the District of Columbia, or the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<!-- 7 additional paragraph(s) omitted for brevity -->
</section>
</body>
</act>
</akomaNtoso>
// 1. sections.parquet (Primary Key: doc_id = "MDCODE-AG-1-101")
{
"jurisdiction": "US-MD",
"doc_id": "MDCODE-AG-1-101",
"universal_doc_id": "US-MD-MDCODE-AG-1-101",
"container_type": "article",
"container_id": "AG",
"container_name": "Agriculture",
"title": 1,
"chapter_id": "AG-1",
"chapter_name": "Title 1",
"subchapter_id": "AG-1-1",
"subchapter_name": "Subtitle 1",
"section_number": "AG-1-101",
"heading": "Definitions",
"paragraph_count": 9,
"history_note": "Md. Code, Agriculture § 1-101 (MGA 2027RS). Recent Legislative Actions: (a) without amendments (SB0242 / CH0694, SB...",
"source_html_sha256": "20842bbbd3be285077a848e5f985811be0212788e788462c76cd38384dcca29e",
"akn_sha256": "918668c8bb6c6e3177090fd732818e70a855a43e1d12472de535862eff5cb6b6"
}
// 2. subsections.parquet (9 rows for MDCODE-AG-1-101)
{
"doc_id": "MDCODE-AG-1-101",
"paragraph_eid": "sec_AG-1-101__para_1",
"paragraph_seq": 1,
"enum_label": "(a)",
"indent_level": 1,
"text": "(a) In this article the following words have the meanings indicated."
}
// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in Code of Maryland)
{
"jurisdiction": "US-MD",
"source_doc_id": "MDCODE-AB-1-101",
"source_section": "AB-1-101",
"target_doc_id": "MDCODE-AB-2-138",
"target_section": "AB-2-138",
"target_title": 2,
"citation_count": 2
}
| Table | Column Name | Parquet Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| sections.parquet | jurisdiction / doc_id / universal_doc_id | VARCHAR | Jurisdiction code (US-MD), collection-scoped primary key (MDCODE-AG-1-101), and global key. |
| container_type / container_id / container_name | VARCHAR | Top-level statutory container metadata (e.g., article, AG, Agriculture). |
|
| chapter_id / chapter_name | VARCHAR | Intermediate chapter/article identifier and official heading (100% populated across all 40,043 sections). | |
| section_number / heading | VARCHAR | Canonical section number (e.g., AG-1-101) 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 (40,043 / 40,043 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_AG-1-101__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. |
| Article | Article Heading | Titles | Sections |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art. AG | Agriculture | 16 | 784 |
| Art. AB | Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis | 32 | 3,181 |
| Art. BO | Business Occupations and Professions | 24 | 1,199 |
| Art. BR | Business Regulation | 29 | 1,198 |
| Art. CL | Commercial Law | 27 | 1,763 |
| Art. CA | Corporations and Associations | 12 | 1,007 |
| Art. CS | Correctional Services | 11 | 557 |
| Art. CJ | Courts and Judicial Proceedings | 13 | 1,039 |
| Art. CR | Criminal Law | 14 | 878 |
| Art. CP | Criminal Procedure | 17 | 641 |
| Art. EC | Economic Development | 15 | 1,266 |
| Art. ED | Education | 31 | 1,931 |
| Art. EL | Election Law | 18 | 484 |
| Art. EN | Environment | 17 | 1,558 |
| Art. ET | Estates and Trusts | 20 | 711 |
| Art. FL | Family Law | 15 | 733 |
| Art. FI | Financial Institutions | 14 | 975 |
| Art. GP | General Provisions | 8 | 404 |
| Art. HG | Health - General | 22 | 2,227 |
| Art. HO | Health Occupations | 22 | 1,549 |
| Art. HS | Housing and Community Development | 25 | 701 |
| Art. HU | Human Services | 11 | 652 |
| Art. IN | Insurance | 33 | 1,918 |
| Art. LE | Labor and Employment | 15 | 1,059 |
| Art. LU | Land Use | 26 | 649 |
| Art. LG | Local Government | 26 | 1,213 |
| Art. NR | Natural Resources | 7 | 1,052 |
| Art. PS | Public Safety | 16 | 1,031 |
| Art. PU | Public Utilities | 27 | 778 |
| Art. RP | Real Property | 19 | 837 |
| Art. SF | State Finance and Procurement | 22 | 919 |
| Art. SG | State Government | 19 | 1,184 |
| Art. SP | State Personnel and Pensions | 35 | 845 |
| Art. TG | Tax - General | 14 | 729 |
| Art. TP | Tax - Property | 15 | 638 |
| Art. TR | Transportation | 28 | 1,753 |
| Total (36 Articles) | Complete Code of Maryland Corpus | 715 | 40,043 |