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Mississippi — Mississippi Code of 1972

Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the State of Mississippi across all 50 active titles and 1,206 distinct chapters, cryptographically sealed from official Mississippi Legislature Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation sources.

50 Active Titles
1,206 Distinct Chapters
28,913 Statutory Sections
123,989 Subsections
42,428 Citation Edges
100% AKN 3.0 XSD Valid
Single-Snapshot Dataset Acquisition • 10/2026 Edition

Mississippi Code of 1972 — Complete Medallion Snapshot

One-time purchase for the complete October 2026 (10/2026) edition single-snapshot dataset of the Mississippi Code of 1972. 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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3. Restrictions on Bulk Redistribution

While the underlying enacted statutory text of the State of Mississippi 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.

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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 Mississippi Legislature Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.

  • Source Authority Mississippi Legislature
  • Sealed Payloads 28,913 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 28,913 / 28,913 (100%)
  • History Coverage 28,913 / 28,913 (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 28,913 Rows (23.00 MB)
  • Subsection Table 123,989 Rows (19.91 MB)
  • Citation Graph 42,428 Directed Edges
  • DuckDB Catalog keystone_mscode.duckdb
Artifact / Archive Layer / Format Records Size SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal
sections.parquet Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet) 28,913 23.00 MB 259e9a54417e8c2cef49057cf7e787f3d29a1f47ffc164ec29d795f779ea4a45
subsections.parquet Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet) 123,989 19.91 MB 7a13725391c19f9da68a1d3c2ab4f64471cf7e57cc3e853adbdaef23f5e24a24
edges.parquet Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet) 42,428 426.08 KB 85a60d37aa48a716d6ff80c32f4a1612c0a7edaf62495e791fc164c65f853e6d
keystone_mscode_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests) 28,913 files 37.50 MB 05f432239759c980d6763b58c6ff2a66698d3bfec9996296923524160739aea2
keystone_mscode_silver_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests) 28,913 docs 25.08 MB 9fbf0fdf6631b5ad40770a5baa32b70d819ba35b049eb154e0f451080567191d
keystone_mscode_gold_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests) 195,330 36.90 MB ad69b1ee62339609e4c14fbc3e965cca67ca5fe9edea1224238757f79afb26a3
keystone_mscode_title1_sample.tar.gz Title 1 Sample Showcase Slice (Laws and Statutes) 96 secs 72.77 KB 16da2b82bf0a5aba64fd0a6e8f6d3d9abc10cab86ca95498641cec609c658d25

Canonical Record Specimen: Miss. Code § 1-1-103

Side-by-side view of Section 1-1-103 (Creation of Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation; composition; appointment and compensation of members; chairman; attendance at meetings by proxies; transaction of business by committee; meetings; payment of expenses) in Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML and Gold Parquet JSON representation.
data/silver/mscode/akn_xml/title_01/MSCODE-1-1-103.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-ms/act/mscode/title-1/section-1-1-103"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-10-18" name="snapshot"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="US-MS"/>
        </FRBRWork>
      </identification>
      <proprietary source="#pipeline">
        <meta:source_html_sha256>7406a7666fa98bfc...64d7f</meta:source_html_sha256>
        <meta:doc_id>MSCODE-1-1-103</meta:doc_id>
        <meta:jurisdiction>US-MS</meta:jurisdiction>
        <meta:container_id>01</meta:container_id>
        <meta:chapter_id>1</meta:chapter_id>
        <meta:chapter_name>Code of 1972</meta:chapter_name>
        <meta:history_note>Laws, 1996, ch. 502, § 2; Laws, 1998, ch. 546, § 1; Laws, 2009, ch. 483, § 3, eff from and after passage...</meta:history_note>
      </proprietary>
    </meta>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec_1-1-103">
        <num>1-1-103</num>
        <heading>Creation of Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation; composition; appointment and compensation of members; chairman; attendance at meetings by proxies; transaction of business by committee; meetings; payment of expenses</heading>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1-103__para_1" class="indent-1">
          <num>(1)</num>
          <content>
            <p>(1) There is created the Joint Legislative Committee on
            Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation, which is
            hereinafter referred to as the “joint committee.” The joint
            committee shall be composed of the S...</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1-103__para_2" class="indent-1">
          <content>
            <p>There shall be no business transacted, including adoption of
            rules of procedure, without the presence of a quorum of the
            joint committee. A quorum shall be eight (8) members, to
            consist of four (4) members from the...</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <!-- 4 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 = "MSCODE-1-1-103")
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  "jurisdiction": "US-MS",
  "doc_id": "MSCODE-1-1-103",
  "universal_doc_id": "US-MS-MSCODE-1-1-103",
  "container_type": "title",
  "container_id": "01",
  "container_name": "Laws and Statutes",
  "title": 1,
  "chapter_id": "1",
  "chapter_name": "Code of 1972",
  "subchapter_id": "Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation",
  "subchapter_name": "Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation",
  "section_number": "1-1-103",
  "heading": "Creation of Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation; composition; appointment and compensation of members; chairman; attendance at meetings by proxies; transaction of business by committee; meetings; payment of expenses",
  "paragraph_count": 6,
  "history_note": "Laws, 1996, ch. 502, § 2; Laws, 1998, ch. 546, § 1; Laws, 2009, ch. 483, § 3, eff from and after passage (approved...",
  "source_html_sha256": "7406a7666fa98bfc9448f28e610060af9609505ba190cdb5cba81f803eb64d7f",
  "akn_sha256": "3dc9c32db658153a4f38972c7e45ee8dc149bdd241229988055b2ff38444b26c"
}

// 2. subsections.parquet (6 rows for MSCODE-1-1-103)
{
  "doc_id": "MSCODE-1-1-103",
  "paragraph_eid": "sec_1-1-103__para_1",
  "paragraph_seq": 1,
  "enum_label": "(1)",
  "indent_level": 1,
  "text": "(1) There is created the Joint Legislative Committee on Compilation, Revision and Publication of Legislation, which is hereinafter referred to as the “joint committee.” The joint committee shall be composed of the S..."
}

// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in Mississippi Code of 1972)
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-MS",
  "source_doc_id": "MSCODE-1-1-12",
  "source_section": "1-1-12",
  "target_doc_id": "MSCODE-1-1-11",
  "target_section": "1-1-11",
  "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-MS), collection-scoped primary key (MSCODE-1-1-103), and global key.
container_type / container_id / container_name VARCHAR Top-level statutory container metadata (e.g., title, 01, Laws and Statutes).
chapter_id / chapter_name VARCHAR Intermediate chapter/article identifier and official heading (100% populated across all 28,913 sections).
section_number / heading VARCHAR Canonical section number (e.g., 1-1-103) 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 (28,913 / 28,913 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_1-1-103__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 50-Title Inventory (Mississippi Code of 1972)

Breakdown of distinct chapters and statutory sections across all 50 active titles in the October 2026 edition.
Title Title Heading Chapters Sections
Title 1Laws and Statutes396
Title 3State Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Holidays450
Title 5Legislative Department7106
Title 7Executive Department9283
Title 9Courts15395
Title 11Civil Practice and Procedure39807
Title 13Evidence, Process and Juries4234
Title 15Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds261
Title 17Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities17300
Title 19Counties and County Officers18574
Title 21Municipalities26705
Title 23Elections9443
Title 25Public Officers and Employees; Public Records29633
Title 27Taxation and Finance562,387
Title 29Public Lands, Buildings and Property9271
Title 31Public Business, Bonds and Obligations18365
Title 33Military Affairs9306
Title 35War Veterans and Pensions580
Title 37Education1021,833
Title 39Libraries, Arts, Archives and History21194
Title 41Public Health841,213
Title 43Public Welfare41932
Title 45Public Safety and Good Order31391
Title 47Prisons and Prisoners; Probation and Parole5394
Title 49Conservation and Ecology28820
Title 51Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control24668
Title 53Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals7207
Title 55Parks and Recreation14266
Title 57Planning, Research and Development77824
Title 59Ports, Harbors, Landings and Watercraft14306
Title 61Aviation11153
Title 63Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations20613
Title 65Highways, Bridges and Ferries261,086
Title 67Alcoholic Beverages5128
Title 69Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals39754
Title 71Labor and Industry8247
Title 73Professions and Vocations571,131
Title 75Regulation of Trade, Commerce and Investments681,924
Title 77Public Utilities and Carriers12685
Title 79Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships251,068
Title 81Banks and Financial Institutions21775
Title 83Insurance591,340
Title 85Debtor-Creditor Relationship8171
Title 87Contracts and Contractual Relations546
Title 89Real and Personal Property17340
Title 91Trusts and Estates14489
Title 93Domestic Relations21503
Title 95Torts847
Title 97Crimes25774
Title 99Criminal Procedure30495
Total (50 Titles) Complete Mississippi Code of 1972 Corpus 1,206 28,913