Rhode Island — General Laws of Rhode Island

Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the State of Rhode Island across all 49 active titles and 2,705 distinct chapters, cryptographically sealed from official State of Rhode Island General Assembly Law Revision Office (rilin.state.ri.us) sources.

49 Active Titles

2,705 Distinct Chapters

32,712 Statutory Sections

132,192 Subsections

15,324 Citation Edges

100% AKN 3.0 XSD Valid

Single-Snapshot Dataset Acquisition • 10/2026 Edition

General Laws of Rhode Island — Complete Medallion Snapshot

One-time purchase for the complete October 2026 (10/2026) edition single-snapshot dataset of the General Laws of Rhode Island. 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 State of Rhode Island General Assembly Law Revision Office (rilin.state.ri.us) with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.

Source Authority Rhode Island General Assembly
Sealed Payloads 32,712 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 32,712 / 32,712 (100%)
History Coverage 31,959 / 32,712 (97.7%)
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 32,712 Rows (21.78 MB)
Subsection Table 132,192 Rows (19.33 MB)
Citation Graph 15,324 Directed Edges
DuckDB Catalog keystone_rigl.duckdb

Artifact / Archive	Layer / Format	Records	Size	SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal
sections.parquet	Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet)	32,712	21.78 MB	154566e9682389ac4fee32f1a28582615931403b324e0b7cb3f05ba7cc22f82a
subsections.parquet	Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet)	132,192	19.33 MB	09c871aa933a4354a68e08b4b723576c280bff19855554fd410e2c83cb4ff83f
edges.parquet	Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet)	15,324	284.57 KB	5d36a3016c38866729d8dea5312c465ceed0c668e25ce9aa50e124e7f9e56844
keystone_rigl_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests)	32,712 files	23.58 MB	fe5cb0f144c533d52d1727b8c71a65fd5a29746d645146cb49a94ce941fc30ca
keystone_rigl_silver_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests)	32,712 docs	24.67 MB	da37ff3dc72bed03466c82b2a2cb245de0724f8bb069421e3adabf5676d8efb5
keystone_rigl_gold_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests)	180,228	35.20 MB	46bced0e489d1ee1268535edd0f7a0fbc0ee141b12720aa0617c96c6b1cc51a7
keystone_rigl_title1_sample.tar.gz	Title 1 Sample Showcase Slice (Title 1 - Aeronautics)	108 secs	118.26 KB	bcbbadc209d4e3ce862d90a7d31f2a1452f14a608eced580f808dac5b96a9bff

Canonical Record Specimen: R.I. Gen. Laws § 1-2-1

Side-by-side view of Section 1-2-1 (Powers of the president and CEO of the Rhode Island airport corporation.) in Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML and Gold Parquet JSON representation.

            data/silver/rigl/akn_xml/title_01/RIGL-1-2-1.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-ri/act/rigl/1/1-2-1"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-10-20" name="snapshot"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="US-RI"/>
        </FRBRWork>
      </identification>
      <proprietary source="#pipeline">
        <meta:source_html_sha256>d48c7cd5ff053e5a...7c27d</meta:source_html_sha256>
        <meta:doc_id>RIGL-1-2-1</meta:doc_id>
        <meta:jurisdiction>US-RI</meta:jurisdiction>
        <meta:container_id>1</meta:container_id>
        <meta:chapter_id>2</meta:chapter_id>
        <meta:chapter_name>Airports and Landing Fields</meta:chapter_name>
        <meta:history_note>P.L. 1935, ch. 2250, § 63; G.L. 1938, ch. 110, § 1; P.L. 1940, ch. 851, § 9; G.L. 1956, § 1-2-1; P.L. 198...</meta:history_note>
      </proprietary>
    </meta>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec_1-2-1">
        <num>1-2-1</num>
        <heading>Powers of the president and CEO of the Rhode Island airport corporation.</heading>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-2-1__para_1" class="indent-1">
          <num>(a)</num>
          <content>
            <p>The president and CEO has supervision over the state airport
            at Warwick and any other airports constructed or operated by
            the state. The president and CEO shall enforce the provisions
            of this chapter. Furthermore, t...</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-2-1__para_2" class="indent-1">
          <num>(b)</num>
          <content>
            <p>As used in this chapter:</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <!-- 2 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 = "RIGL-1-2-1")
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-RI",
  "doc_id": "RIGL-1-2-1",
  "universal_doc_id": "US-RI-RIGL-1-2-1",
  "container_type": "title",
  "container_id": "1",
  "container_name": "Title 1 - Aeronautics",
  "title": 1,
  "chapter_id": "2",
  "chapter_name": "Airports and Landing Fields",
  "subchapter_id": "",
  "subchapter_name": "",
  "section_number": "1-2-1",
  "heading": "Powers of the president and CEO of the Rhode Island airport corporation.",
  "paragraph_count": 4,
  "history_note": "P.L. 1935, ch. 2250, § 63; G.L. 1938, ch. 110, § 1; P.L. 1940, ch. 851, § 9; G.L. 1956, § 1-2-1; P.L. 1983, ch. 32,...",
  "source_html_sha256": "d48c7cd5ff053e5a40d22b23a4400b3fa069a8174b61b4b3ce5aed6e6957c27d",
  "akn_sha256": "84bca785cb3a2e0f2eb0c2cafa048924515d2a8a149bfda4dec9654823b976d7"
}

// 2. subsections.parquet (4 rows for RIGL-1-2-1)
{
  "doc_id": "RIGL-1-2-1",
  "paragraph_eid": "sec_1-2-1__para_1",
  "paragraph_seq": 1,
  "enum_label": "(a)",
  "indent_level": 1,
  "text": "The president and CEO has supervision over the state airport at Warwick and any other airports constructed or operated by the state. The president and CEO shall enforce the provisions of this chapter. Furthermore, t..."
}

// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in General Laws of Rhode Island)
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-RI",
  "source_doc_id": "RIGL-1-2-11",
  "source_section": "1-2-11",
  "target_doc_id": "RIGL-1-2-3",
  "target_section": "1-2-3",
  "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-RI`), collection-scoped primary key (`RIGL-1-2-1`), and global key.
	container_type / container_id / container_name	VARCHAR	Top-level statutory container metadata (e.g., `title`, `1`, `Title 1 - Aeronautics`).
	chapter_id / chapter_name	VARCHAR	Intermediate chapter/article identifier and official heading (100% populated across all 32,712 sections).
	section_number / heading	VARCHAR	Canonical section number (e.g., `1-2-1`) 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 (31,959 / 32,712 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_1-2-1__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 49-Title Inventory (General Laws of Rhode Island)

Breakdown of distinct chapters and statutory sections across all 49 active titles in the October 2026 edition.

Title	Title Heading	Chapters	Sections
Title 1	Title 1 - Aeronautics	8	108
Title 2	Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry	31	386
Title 3	Title 3 - Alcoholic Beverages	14	235
Title 4	Title 4 - Animals and Animal Husbandry	34	487
Title 5	Title 5 - Businesses and Professions	152	1,986
Title 6	Title 6 - Commercial Law — General Regulatory Provisions	57	455
Title 6A	Title 6A - Uniform Commercial Code	13	588
Title 7	Title 7 - Corporations, Associations, and Partnerships	27	955
Title 8	Title 8 - Courts and Civil Procedure — Courts	26	383
Title 9	Title 9 - Courts and Civil Procedure — Procedure Generally	40	577
Title 10	Title 10 - Courts and Civil Procedure — Procedure in Particular Actions	23	359
Title 11	Title 11 - Criminal Offenses	90	937
Title 12	Title 12 - Criminal Procedure	51	630
Title 13	Title 13 - Criminals – Correctional Institutions	17	117
Title 14	Title 14 - Delinquent and Dependent Children	9	131
Title 15	Title 15 - Domestic Relations	36	534
Title 16	Title 16 - Education	107	654
Title 17	Title 17 - Elections	38	536
Title 18	Title 18 - Fiduciaries	20	226
Title 19	Title 19 - Financial Institutions	56	493
Title 20	Title 20 - Fish and Wildlife	46	410
Title 21	Title 21 - Food And Drugs	57	577
Title 22	Title 22 - General Assembly	31	196
Title 23	Title 23 - Health and Safety	307	2,770
Title 24	Title 24 - Highways	20	317
Title 25	Title 25 - Holidays and Days of Special Observance	3	84
Title 26	Title 26 - Insane and Mentally Deficient Persons	8	12
Title 27	Title 27 - Insurance	159	2,145
Title 28	Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations	86	1,394
Title 29	Title 29 - Libraries	10	83
Title 30	Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense	46	515
Title 31	Title 31 - Motor and Other Vehicles	90	1,457
Title 32	Title 32 - Parks and Recreational Areas	7	100
Title 33	Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure	36	666
Title 34	Title 34 - Property	64	829
Title 35	Title 35 - Public Finance	29	406
Title 36	Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees	26	436
Title 37	Title 37 - Public Property and Works	45	458
Title 38	Title 38 - Public Records	3	37
Title 39	Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers	58	852
Title 40	Title 40 - Human Services	49	498
Title 40.1	Title 40.1 - Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals	30	320
Title 41	Title 41 - Sports, Racing, and Athletics	15	216
Title 42	Title 42 - State Affairs and Government	319	2,769
Title 43	Title 43 - Statutes and Statutory Construction	4	66
Title 44	Title 44 - Taxation	110	1,720
Title 45	Title 45 - Towns and Cities	113	1,562
Title 46	Title 46 - Waters and Navigation	69	967
Title 47	Title 47 - Weights and Measures	16	73
Total (49 Titles)	Complete General Laws of Rhode Island Corpus	2,705	32,712