North Dakota — North Dakota Century Code

Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the State of North Dakota across all 66 active titles and 1,740 distinct chapters, cryptographically sealed from official North Dakota Legislative Branch and Legislative Council (ndlegis.gov) sources.

66 Active Titles

1,740 Distinct Chapters

29,116 Statutory Sections

115,856 Subsections

17,373 Citation Edges

100% AKN 3.0 XSD Valid

Single-Snapshot Dataset Acquisition • 10/2026 Edition

North Dakota Century Code — Complete Medallion Snapshot

One-time purchase for the complete October 2026 (10/2026) edition single-snapshot dataset of the North Dakota Century Code. 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

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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 North Dakota Legislative Branch and Legislative Council (ndlegis.gov) with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.

Source Authority ND Legislative Council
Sealed Payloads 29,116 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 29,116 / 29,116 (100%)
History Coverage 29,116 / 29,116 (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 29,116 Rows (17.22 MB)
Subsection Table 115,856 Rows (15.28 MB)
Citation Graph 17,373 Directed Edges
DuckDB Catalog keystone_ndcc.duckdb

Artifact / Archive	Layer / Format	Records	Size	SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal
sections.parquet	Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet)	29,116	17.22 MB	9efc3f9173b59ea68f1f4f131b26fe9c81c671e10e2771972777a0bc9a4cc462
subsections.parquet	Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet)	115,856	15.28 MB	ee192ce360ffc39d8c30ec85ff0a6647bcfd8dd5ba4b827c18abd2e2e015abc5
edges.parquet	Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet)	17,373	266.39 KB	04a9b4333c03d67a110c86bcefca7164f4c922671814ae5a8fc2996de5821a07
keystone_ndcc_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests)	29,116 files	14.33 MB	7a0559ffd8f053189c831e54cbce57595baed96eec263f5235dc84f8349e93ea
keystone_ndcc_silver_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests)	29,116 docs	19.92 MB	0243e9c7f9cfd15ecfe0c249b10a41e54083c04d9948e3dddf0b4a6d10dc3458
keystone_ndcc_gold_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests)	162,345	27.65 MB	ea68868144f5898c49d769b51d47e7788feeeb45f9326c948004188ee121d089
keystone_ndcc_title1_sample.tar.gz	Title 1 Sample Showcase Slice (Title 1 - General Provisions)	189 secs	103.87 KB	468afc2ce77f813e44689da18a490580bb4dac991fa52a7c1a3f6f94049e1363

Canonical Record Specimen: N.D.C.C. § 1-01-03

Side-by-side view of Section 1-01-03 (Expression of law) in Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML and Gold Parquet JSON representation.

            data/silver/ndcc/akn_xml/title_01_1/NDCC-1-01-03.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-nd/act/ndcc/title-1/section-1-01-03"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-10-19" name="snapshot"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="US-ND"/>
        </FRBRWork>
      </identification>
      <proprietary source="#pipeline">
        <meta:source_html_sha256>4717c109ad3f2885...84d4e</meta:source_html_sha256>
        <meta:doc_id>NDCC-1-01-03</meta:doc_id>
        <meta:jurisdiction>US-ND</meta:jurisdiction>
        <meta:container_id>1</meta:container_id>
        <meta:chapter_id>1-01</meta:chapter_id>
        <meta:chapter_name>Chapter 1-01 - General Principles And Definitions</meta:chapter_name>
        <meta:history_note>N.D.C.C. § 1-01-03.</meta:history_note>
      </proprietary>
    </meta>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec_1-01-03">
        <num>1-01-03</num>
        <heading>Expression of law</heading>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-01-03__para_1" class="indent-1">
          <content>
            <p>The will of the sovereign power is expressed by:</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-01-03__para_2" class="indent-1">
          <num>1.</num>
          <content>
            <p>1. The Constitution of the United States.</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <!-- 6 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 = "NDCC-1-01-03")
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-ND",
  "doc_id": "NDCC-1-01-03",
  "universal_doc_id": "US-ND-NDCC-1-01-03",
  "container_type": "title",
  "container_id": "1",
  "container_name": "Title 1 - General Provisions",
  "title": 1,
  "chapter_id": "1-01",
  "chapter_name": "Chapter 1-01 - General Principles And Definitions",
  "subchapter_id": "",
  "subchapter_name": "",
  "section_number": "1-01-03",
  "heading": "Expression of law",
  "paragraph_count": 8,
  "history_note": "N.D.C.C. § 1-01-03.",
  "source_html_sha256": "4717c109ad3f28858d11a26d7385f1644cab4e52aa64f57cc82053ffcb384d4e",
  "akn_sha256": "6a20346d201f1247fae9010951915129824ee9d6981dfcb3c0c91449c31418b7"
}

// 2. subsections.parquet (8 rows for NDCC-1-01-03)
{
  "doc_id": "NDCC-1-01-03",
  "paragraph_eid": "sec_1-01-03__para_2",
  "paragraph_seq": 2,
  "enum_label": "1.",
  "indent_level": 1,
  "text": "1. The Constitution of the United States."
}

// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in North Dakota Century Code)
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-ND",
  "source_doc_id": "NDCC-1-02-08",
  "source_section": "1-02-08",
  "target_doc_id": "NDCC-1-02-07",
  "target_section": "1-02-07",
  "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-ND`), collection-scoped primary key (`NDCC-1-01-03`), and global key.
	container_type / container_id / container_name	VARCHAR	Top-level statutory container metadata (e.g., `title`, `1`, `Title 1 - General Provisions`).
	chapter_id / chapter_name	VARCHAR	Intermediate chapter/article identifier and official heading (100% populated across all 29,116 sections).
	section_number / heading	VARCHAR	Canonical section number (e.g., `1-01-03`) 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 (29,116 / 29,116 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_1-01-03__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 66-Title Inventory (North Dakota Century Code)

Breakdown of distinct chapters and statutory sections across all 66 active titles in the October 2026 edition.

Title	Title Heading	Chapters	Sections
Title 1	Title 1 - General Provisions	8	189
Title 2	Title 2 - Aeronautics	6	105
Title 3	Title 3 - Agency	6	48
Title 4.1	Title 4.1 - Agriculture	62	1,093
Title 5	Title 5 - Alcoholic Beverages	4	84
Title 6	Title 6 - Banks and Banking	34	636
Title 8	Title 8 - Carriage	10	77
Title 9	Title 9 - Contracts and Obligations	16	220
Title 10	Title 10 - Corporations	17	745
Title 11	Title 11 - Counties	43	769
Title 12	Title 12 - Corrections, Parole, and Probation	19	291
Title 12.1	Title 12.1 - Criminal Code	48	428
Title 13	Title 13 - Debtor and Creditor Relationship	13	278
Title 14	Title 14 - Domestic Relations and Persons	39	785
Title 15	Title 15 - Education	45	768
Title 15.1	Title 15.1 - Elementary and Secondary Education	43	745
Title 16.1	Title 16.1 - Elections	18	412
Title 17	Title 17 - Energy	5	40
Title 18	Title 18 - Fires	15	203
Title 19	Title 19 - Foods, Drugs, Oils, and Compounds	18	258
Title 20.1	Title 20.1 - Game, Fish, Predators, and Boating	19	342
Title 21	Title 21 - Governmental Finance	13	180
Title 22	Title 22 - Guaranty, Indemnity, and Suretyship	3	51
Title 23	Title 23 - Health and Safety	62	764
Title 23.1	Title 23.1 - Environmental Quality	17	240
Title 24	Title 24 - Highways, Bridges, and Ferries	15	389
Title 25	Title 25 - Mental and Physical Illness or Disability	18	321
Title 26.1	Title 26.1 - Insurance	104	1,722
Title 27	Title 27 - Judicial Branch of Government	29	460
Title 28	Title 28 - Judicial Procedure, Civil	27	476
Title 29	Title 29 - Judicial Procedure, Criminal	35	659
Title 30	Title 30 - Judicial Procedure, Probate	1	10
Title 30.1	Title 30.1 - Uniform Probate Code	39	411
Title 31	Title 31 - Judicial Proof	11	140
Title 32	Title 32 - Judicial Remedies	60	779
Title 34	Title 34 - Labor and Employment	15	221
Title 35	Title 35 - Liens	24	298
Title 36	Title 36 - Livestock	12	209
Title 37	Title 37 - Military	30	368
Title 38	Title 38 - Mining and Gas and Oil Production	27	370
Title 39	Title 39 - Motor Vehicles	42	958
Title 40	Title 40 - Municipal Government	76	1,100
Title 41	Title 41 - Uniform Commercial Code	13	635
Title 42	Title 42 - Nuisances	4	37
Title 43	Title 43 - Occupations and Professions	83	1,493
Title 44	Title 44 - Offices and Officers	10	244
Title 45	Title 45 - Partnerships	14	248
Title 46	Title 46 - Printing Laws	7	94
Title 47	Title 47 - Property	45	745
Title 48	Title 48 - Public Buildings	10	91
Title 49	Title 49 - Public Utilities	23	453
Title 50	Title 50 - Public Welfare	42	723
Title 51	Title 51 - Sales and Exchanges	38	371
Title 52	Title 52 - Social Security	12	165
Title 53	Title 53 - Sports and Amusements	15	182
Title 54	Title 54 - State Government	92	1,530
Title 55	Title 55 - State Historical Society and State Parks	10	122
Title 57	Title 57 - Taxation	65	1,420
Title 58	Title 58 - Townships	17	183
Title 59	Title 59 - Trusts, Uses, and Powers	20	204
Title 60	Title 60 - Warehousing and Deposits	2	60
Title 61	Title 61 - Waters	44	1,127
Title 62.1	Title 62.1 - Weapons	5	39
Title 63	Title 63 - Weeds	1	4
Title 64	Title 64 - Weights, Measures, and Grades	4	52
Title 65	Title 65 - Workforce Safety and Insurance	16	252
Total (66 Titles)	Complete North Dakota Century Code Corpus	1,740	29,116