Pennsylvania — Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes

Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania across all 52 active titles and 968 distinct chapters, cryptographically sealed from official Pennsylvania General Assembly Legislative Reference Bureau (palegis.us) sources.

52 Active Titles

968 Distinct Chapters

13,696 Statutory Sections

106,305 Subsections

10,753 Citation Edges

100% AKN 3.0 XSD Valid

Single-Snapshot Dataset Acquisition • 10/2026 Edition

Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes — Complete Medallion Snapshot

One-time purchase for the complete October 2026 (10/2026) edition single-snapshot dataset of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes. 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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2. Permitted Enterprise, Analytics & AI/LLM Uses

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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 Pennsylvania General Assembly Legislative Reference Bureau (palegis.us) with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.

Source Authority PA Legislative Reference Bureau
Sealed Payloads 13,696 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 13,696 / 13,696 (100%)
History Coverage 13,696 / 13,696 (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 13,696 Rows (12.10 MB)
Subsection Table 106,305 Rows (11.33 MB)
Citation Graph 10,753 Directed Edges
DuckDB Catalog keystone_pacs.duckdb

Artifact / Archive	Layer / Format	Records	Size	SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal
sections.parquet	Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet)	13,696	12.10 MB	fb45c1215b6bbf47266e4bd9dfd6103b68511e9b0e1a9803924cafbc6ff38781
subsections.parquet	Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet)	106,305	11.33 MB	ee9322f73abaca4b6b84233886f096905c1f2029ebd59769909cb2a5b51046bd
edges.parquet	Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet)	10,753	170.12 KB	081eedc759d8bd359de869c07138d563431f4631c1ee9198632a19152173bcd0
keystone_pacs_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests)	13,696 files	10.03 MB	07ff6a3bea9942873be4ec81587a08544295b185590cd7f5f5a733996e5aac62
keystone_pacs_silver_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests)	13,696 docs	13.63 MB	9dc94fad1078697daa271e5e213592a1b6c0b37ff220e1490700dde2c1295ddf
keystone_pacs_gold_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests)	130,754	20.27 MB	4d2afef57f52dbf0e04a258eab61d3dbf0e90d6eb405306c8fb98dd05a97f209
keystone_pacs_title2_sample.tar.gz	Title 2 Sample Showcase Slice (Title 2 - Administrative Law and Procedure)	45 secs	32.11 KB	864ce28973e5ad81cddc2f2989a0627f2eb5b8d409b8489e5f28f8b6a18c0e64

Canonical Record Specimen: Pa. C.S. § 1-1101

Side-by-side view of Section 1-1101 (Enacting clause and unofficial provisions) in Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML and Gold Parquet JSON representation.

            data/silver/pacs/akn_xml/title_01/PACS-1-1101.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-pa/act/pacs/title-1/section-1-1101"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-10-22" name="snapshot"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="US-PA"/>
        </FRBRWork>
      </identification>
      <proprietary source="#pipeline">
        <meta:source_html_sha256>bebe8781abde61a6...aed0a</meta:source_html_sha256>
        <meta:doc_id>PACS-1-1101</meta:doc_id>
        <meta:jurisdiction>US-PA</meta:jurisdiction>
        <meta:container_id>1</meta:container_id>
        <meta:chapter_id>11</meta:chapter_id>
        <meta:chapter_name>Chapter 11 - Statutory Provisions</meta:chapter_name>
        <meta:history_note>(June 17, 1974, P.L.330, No.107, eff. imd.; Dec. 10, 1974, P.L.816, No.271, eff. imd.) 1974 Amendments. A...</meta:history_note>
      </proprietary>
    </meta>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec_1-1101">
        <num>1-1101</num>
        <heading>Enacting clause and unofficial provisions</heading>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1101__para_1" class="indent-1">
          <num>(a)</num>
          <content>
            <p>(a) Style and position of enacting clause.-- All statutes
            shall begin in the following style: &quot;The General Assembly
            of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as
            follows:&quot;. Such enacting clause shall be place...</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1101__para_2" class="indent-1">
          <num>(b)</num>
          <content>
            <p>(b) Enumeration and use of unofficial provisions.-- Preambles,
            tables of contents, summary analyses, major subdivision
            headings, section and minor subdivision headings, cross
            reference descriptions, source notes and...</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <!-- 1 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 = "PACS-1-1101")
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  "jurisdiction": "US-PA",
  "doc_id": "PACS-1-1101",
  "universal_doc_id": "US-PA-PACS-1-1101",
  "container_type": "title",
  "container_id": "1",
  "container_name": "Title 1 - General Provisions",
  "title": 1,
  "chapter_id": "11",
  "chapter_name": "Chapter 11 - Statutory Provisions",
  "subchapter_id": "",
  "subchapter_name": "",
  "section_number": "1-1101",
  "heading": "Enacting clause and unofficial provisions",
  "paragraph_count": 3,
  "history_note": "(June 17, 1974, P.L.330, No.107, eff. imd.; Dec. 10, 1974, P.L.816, No.271, eff. imd.) 1974 Amendments. Act 107 ame...",
  "source_html_sha256": "bebe8781abde61a61456b2257e6e54fd992a12f40dce276446d9601e08aaed0a",
  "akn_sha256": "357cb8781c44b5c9ed06a7170d8c1a7b410671868825ebdbec2318712c71df06"
}

// 2. subsections.parquet (3 rows for PACS-1-1101)
{
  "doc_id": "PACS-1-1101",
  "paragraph_eid": "sec_1-1101__para_1",
  "paragraph_seq": 1,
  "enum_label": "(a)",
  "indent_level": 1,
  "text": "(a) Style and position of enacting clause.-- All statutes shall begin in the following style: \"The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:\". Such enacting clause shall be place..."
}

// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes)
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-PA",
  "source_doc_id": "PACS-1-102",
  "source_section": "1-102",
  "target_doc_id": "PACS-1-303",
  "target_section": "1-303",
  "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-PA`), collection-scoped primary key (`PACS-1-1101`), 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 13,696 sections).
	section_number / heading	VARCHAR	Canonical section number (e.g., `1-1101`) 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 (13,696 / 13,696 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_1-1101__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.
edges.parquet	source_section / target_section / citation_count	VARCHAR / INT64	Canonical section numbers and frequency count of cross-references between the pair.

Complete 52-Title Inventory (Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes)

Breakdown of distinct chapters and statutory sections across all 52 active titles in the October 2026 edition.

Title	Title Heading	Chapters	Sections
Title 1	Title 1 - General Provisions	10	85
Title 2	Title 2 - Administrative Law and Procedure	3	45
Title 3	Title 3 - Agriculture	32	584
Title 4	Title 4 - Amusements	23	315
Title 5	Title 5 - Athletics and Sports	12	112
Title 7	Title 7 - Banks and Banking	1	25
Title 8	Title 8 - Boroughs and Incorporated Towns	32	401
Title 9	Title 9 - Burial Grounds	4	17
Title 11	Title 11 - Cities	44	476
Title 12	Title 12 - Commerce and Trade	24	268
Title 13	Title 13 - Commercial Code	53	630
Title 15	Title 15 - Corporations and Unincorporated Associations	38	949
Title 16	Title 16 - Counties	35	548
Title 17	Title 17 - Credit Unions	8	61
Title 18	Title 18 - Crimes and Offenses	43	693
Title 20	Title 20 - Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries	42	799
Title 22	Title 22 - Detectives and Private Police	3	24
Title 23	Title 23 - Domestic Relations	43	552
Title 24	Title 24 - Education	11	168
Title 25	Title 25 - Elections	12	93
Title 26	Title 26 - Eminent Domain	7	72
Title 27	Title 27 - Environmental Resources	12	120
Title 30	Title 30 - Fish	18	222
Title 32	Title 32 - Forests, Waters and State Parks	1	9
Title 34	Title 34 - Game	10	194
Title 35	Title 35 - Health and Safety	27	356
Title 37	Title 37 - Historical and Museums	5	36
Title 38	Title 38 - Holidays and Observances	2	8
Title 40	Title 40 - Insurance	22	215
Title 42	Title 42 - Judiciary and Judicial Procedure	57	1,194
Title 44	Title 44 - Law and Justice	6	108
Title 45	Title 45 - Legal Notices	5	40
Title 48	Title 48 - Lodging and Housing	1	16
Title 51	Title 51 - Military Affairs	51	437
Title 53	Title 53 - Municipalities Generally	31	624
Title 54	Title 54 - Names	7	58
Title 57	Title 57 - Notaries Public	1	32
Title 58	Title 58 - Oil and Gas	6	93
Title 61	Title 61 - Prisons and Parole	19	238
Title 62	Title 62 - Procurement	20	164
Title 63	Title 63 - Professions and Occupations (State Licensed)	2	29
Title 64	Title 64 - Public Authorities and Quasi-Public Corporations	4	77
Title 65	Title 65 - Public Officers	3	44
Title 66	Title 66 - Public Utilities	23	280
Title 67	Title 67 - Public Welfare	7	26
Title 68	Title 68 - Real and Personal Property	23	331
Title 71	Title 71 - State Government	19	178
Title 72	Title 72 - Taxation and Fiscal Affairs	1	9
Title 73	Title 73 - Townships	36	379
Title 74	Title 74 - Transportation	24	217
Title 75	Title 75 - Vehicles	44	1,038
Title 76	Title 76 - Weights, Measures and Standards	1	7
Total (52 Titles)	Complete Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Corpus	968	13,696