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Northern Mariana Islands — Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Code

Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands across all 10 active titles and 467 distinct chapters, cryptographically sealed from official Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Law Revision Commission (cnmilaw.org) sources.

10 Active Titles
467 Distinct Chapters
6,868 Statutory Sections
34,156 Subsections
3,951 Citation Edges
100% AKN 3.0 XSD Valid
Single-Snapshot Dataset Acquisition • 10/2026 Edition

Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Code — Complete Medallion Snapshot

One-time purchase for the complete October 2026 (10/2026) edition single-snapshot dataset of the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth 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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Keystone Legal Data — Commercial Dataset License Agreement Standard Single-Snapshot Terms (v2026.10)

1. Grant of Perpetual Single-Snapshot License

Upon payment of the one-time $2,000 USD license fee, Keystone Data Services LLC, d/b/a Keystone Legal Data ("Licensor"), grants Customer ("Licensee") a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide enterprise license to store, query, index, and use the 10/2026 Edition Single-Snapshot Dataset of the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Code (including all delivered Bronze source files, Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML files, Gold Parquet tables, directed citation graph schemas, and cryptographic manifests, collectively the "Licensed Dataset"). Future statutory editions or legislative updates are sold separately as independent snapshots.

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 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 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 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Law Revision Commission (cnmilaw.org) with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.

  • Source Authority CNMI Law Revision Commission
  • Sealed Payloads 6,868 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 6,868 / 6,868 (100%)
  • History Coverage 6,868 / 6,868 (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 6,868 Rows (4.64 MB)
  • Subsection Table 34,156 Rows (4.25 MB)
  • Citation Graph 3,951 Directed Edges
  • DuckDB Catalog keystone_cmc.duckdb
Artifact / Archive Layer / Format Records Size SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal
sections.parquet Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet) 6,868 4.64 MB f76b91937c4fa0b7216837851a20cd98cca6007f2b85562e3ce9b692cb912edb
subsections.parquet Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet) 34,156 4.25 MB 4f7e1e048e155cdaf46e563ecf01a970ff3867449aaaa3a54c035aa8c079ef53
edges.parquet Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet) 3,951 62.30 KB 9f98af4eac91c13f8d249cb4034188729d00cbe95b302c6e47fd4408745b3919
keystone_cmc_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests) 6,868 files 3.80 MB de73443f22df95cd5437765d93f6b77c601d1d8b02839122f129fadbc1dad85c
keystone_cmc_silver_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests) 6,868 docs 5.30 MB e48607bc1b2ffcea591b1ea63a130e89c8cc5bc86f976c2aba5a12312746d55a
keystone_cmc_gold_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests) 44,975 7.62 MB b288fd1a086d2e83cc6e01397cc51ecdb62376fad0310c13acd9eb9c0f590cf9
keystone_cmc_title7_sample.tar.gz Title 7 Sample Showcase Slice (Title 7 - Civil Procedure) 157 secs 134.93 KB b462f06f908be06c5c236d4bf2819bbd824bfc070d1ac24bb364aaef08e152d9

Canonical Record Specimen: CMC § 1-10102

Side-by-side view of Section 1-10102 (Militia) in Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML and Gold Parquet JSON representation.
data/silver/cmc/akn_xml/title_01/CMC-1-10102.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-mp/act/cmc/title-1/section-1-10102"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-10-19" name="snapshot"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="US-MP"/>
        </FRBRWork>
      </identification>
      <proprietary source="#pipeline">
        <meta:source_html_sha256>d53da3aa2d563919...12008</meta:source_html_sha256>
        <meta:doc_id>CMC-1-10102</meta:doc_id>
        <meta:jurisdiction>US-MP</meta:jurisdiction>
        <meta:container_id>1</meta:container_id>
        <meta:chapter_id>D10-C1</meta:chapter_id>
        <meta:chapter_name>Division 10 Military Affairs — Chapter 1. Northern Marian...</meta:chapter_name>
        <meta:history_note>PL 13-32, § 2.</meta:history_note>
      </proprietary>
    </meta>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec_1-10102">
        <num>1-10102</num>
        <heading>Militia</heading>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-10102__para_1" class="indent-1">
          <num>(a)</num>
          <content>
            <p>(a) The militia of the Commonwealth shall consist of every
            citizen of the United States who is eighteen years old or
            older and under forty-six years of age.</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-10102__para_2" class="indent-1">
          <num>(b)</num>
          <content>
            <p>(b) The militia shall be composed of two classes: the
            organized militia and the unorganized militia.</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 = "CMC-1-10102")
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-MP",
  "doc_id": "CMC-1-10102",
  "universal_doc_id": "US-MP-CMC-1-10102",
  "container_type": "title",
  "container_id": "1",
  "container_name": "Title 1 - Government",
  "title": 1,
  "chapter_id": "D10-C1",
  "chapter_name": "Division 10 Military Affairs — Chapter 1. Northern Mariana Islands National Guard",
  "subchapter_id": "",
  "subchapter_name": "",
  "section_number": "1-10102",
  "heading": "Militia",
  "paragraph_count": 6,
  "history_note": "PL 13-32, § 2.",
  "source_html_sha256": "d53da3aa2d56391905e27005196834cfe7af5dbd46c4516f7dbd4b487e612008",
  "akn_sha256": "471303503703f2e926b7ee3aafbe31746b71dea70c1264dba851813c01018047"
}

// 2. subsections.parquet (6 rows for CMC-1-10102)
{
  "doc_id": "CMC-1-10102",
  "paragraph_eid": "sec_1-10102__para_1",
  "paragraph_seq": 1,
  "enum_label": "(a)",
  "indent_level": 1,
  "text": "(a) The militia of the Commonwealth shall consist of every citizen of the United States who is eighteen years old or older and under forty-six years of age."
}

// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Code)
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-MP",
  "source_doc_id": "CMC-1-102",
  "source_section": "1-102",
  "target_doc_id": "CMC-1-101",
  "target_section": "1-101",
  "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-MP), collection-scoped primary key (CMC-1-10102), and global key.
container_type / container_id / container_name VARCHAR Top-level statutory container metadata (e.g., title, 1, Title 1 - Government).
chapter_id / chapter_name VARCHAR Intermediate chapter/article identifier and official heading (100% populated across all 6,868 sections).
section_number / heading VARCHAR Canonical section number (e.g., 1-10102) 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 (6,868 / 6,868 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_1-10102__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 10-Title Inventory (Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Code)

Breakdown of distinct chapters and statutory sections across all 10 active titles in the October 2026 edition.
Title Title Heading Chapters / Divisions Sections
Title 1Title 1 - Government831,220
Title 2Title 2 - Natural Resources53853
Title 3Title 3 - Human Resources40644
Title 4Title 4 - Economic Resources971,825
Title 5Title 5 - Uniform Commercial Code40411
Title 6Title 6 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure45587
Title 7Title 7 - Civil Procedure20157
Title 8Title 8 - Family Law & Probate21381
Title 9Title 9 - Vehicle Code24253
Title 10Title 10 - Local Laws44537
Total (10 Titles) Complete Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Code Corpus 467 6,868