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South Carolina — Code of Laws of South Carolina 1976

Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the State of South Carolina across all 63 active titles and 1,292 distinct chapters, cryptographically sealed from official South Carolina General Assembly Legislative Council (scstatehouse.gov) sources.

63 Active Titles
1,292 Distinct Chapters
30,948 Statutory Sections
140,380 Subsections
16,153 Citation Edges
100% AKN 3.0 XSD Valid
Single-Snapshot Dataset Acquisition • 10/2026 Edition

Code of Laws of South Carolina 1976 — Complete Medallion Snapshot

One-time purchase for the complete October 2026 (10/2026) edition single-snapshot dataset of the Code of Laws of South Carolina 1976. 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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1. Grant of Perpetual Single-Snapshot License

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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 State of South Carolina 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 South Carolina General Assembly Legislative Council (scstatehouse.gov) with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.

  • Source Authority SC Legislative Council
  • Sealed Payloads 30,948 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 30,948 / 30,948 (100%)
  • History Coverage 30,839 / 30,948 (99.6%)
  • 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 30,948 Rows (22.10 MB)
  • Subsection Table 140,380 Rows (19.26 MB)
  • Citation Graph 16,153 Directed Edges
  • DuckDB Catalog keystone_sccode.duckdb
Artifact / Archive Layer / Format Records Size SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal
sections.parquet Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet) 30,948 22.10 MB 900383dd37be0ccbec1338a9c84f86c5bad0ccf086099629ffca474a8bb3db72
subsections.parquet Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet) 140,380 19.26 MB 8348943883996a0da5ad89c1e4661350dc5fcfc9c4d18bb8d7a725b19d35475b
edges.parquet Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet) 16,153 289.01 KB b23b9cd3df4a064857ef7bfbc3d3a0adb2e2f4e5e4f271dd15aac20705f2cf41
keystone_sccode_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests) 30,948 files 18.22 MB b1ec8faecc4b132b0c95937625771811bfdc79116e9afe1aa40eb3370a15d323
keystone_sccode_silver_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests) 30,948 docs 24.97 MB 117338b12588b4b0985743a71c9e00ebc8b033da864b5219d1dacddddff52e11
keystone_sccode_gold_2026-10.tar.gz Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests) 187,481 35.53 MB a8c3931c9f3a135b35c068bef298b74c31510c888725ff3dd4ce91e8f9335bb1
keystone_sccode_title1_sample.tar.gz Title 1 Sample Showcase Slice (Title 1 - Administration of the Government) 460 secs 505.40 KB 563f5ee72ef792fc012dc099b8f2a93f098a26f0f5326154a9d46aceb144de08

Canonical Record Specimen: S.C. Code § 1-1-1020

Side-by-side view of Section 1-1-1020 (Purchase of equipment by Office of State Treasurer for lease or resale to entities of state government; funding.) in Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML and Gold Parquet JSON representation.
data/silver/sccode/akn_xml/title_01/SCCODE-1-1-1020.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="/akn/us-sc/act/code/sccode/1-1-1020"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-10-20" name="snapshot"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="US-SC"/>
        </FRBRWork>
      </identification>
      <proprietary source="#pipeline">
        <meta:source_html_sha256>00cc25c069d0b4b2...340c7</meta:source_html_sha256>
        <meta:doc_id>SCCODE-1-1-1020</meta:doc_id>
        <meta:jurisdiction>US-SC</meta:jurisdiction>
        <meta:container_id>1</meta:container_id>
        <meta:chapter_id>1</meta:chapter_id>
        <meta:chapter_name>Chapter 1</meta:chapter_name>
        <meta:history_note>HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 178 Part II, SECTION 19; 1982 Act No. 466 Part II, SECTION 27; 1990 Act No. 612, Pa...</meta:history_note>
      </proprietary>
    </meta>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec_1-1-1020">
        <num>1-1-1020</num>
        <heading>Purchase of equipment by Office of State Treasurer for lease or resale to entities of state government; funding.</heading>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1-1020__p_1" class="indent-1">
          <num>(A)</num>
          <content>
            <p>The Office of State Treasurer is authorized to provide
            financing arrangements under the master lease program on
            behalf of boards, commissions, institutions, and agencies of
            state government for the purpose of rentin...</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1-1020__p_2" class="indent-1">
          <num>(B)</num>
          <content>
            <p>The Office of State Treasurer shall negotiate the terms of any
            financing arrangement and prescribe the procedures necessary
            to administer this program.</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 = "SCCODE-1-1-1020")
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-SC",
  "doc_id": "SCCODE-1-1-1020",
  "universal_doc_id": "US-SC-SCCODE-1-1-1020",
  "container_type": "title",
  "container_id": "1",
  "container_name": "Title 1 - Administration of the Government",
  "title": 1,
  "chapter_id": "1",
  "chapter_name": "Chapter 1",
  "subchapter_id": "",
  "subchapter_name": "",
  "section_number": "1-1-1020",
  "heading": "Purchase of equipment by Office of State Treasurer for lease or resale to entities of state government; funding.",
  "paragraph_count": 3,
  "history_note": "HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 178 Part II, SECTION 19; 1982 Act No. 466 Part II, SECTION 27; 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, SEC...",
  "source_html_sha256": "00cc25c069d0b4b29eb497c04904fa514fd98a0da39f69fb242457ef2c2340c7",
  "akn_sha256": "db283f59fe74699017169de9eb245c95b765cd708cb0f1317dad36ab52bdb6f5"
}

// 2. subsections.parquet (3 rows for SCCODE-1-1-1020)
{
  "doc_id": "SCCODE-1-1-1020",
  "paragraph_eid": "sec_1-1-1020__p_1",
  "paragraph_seq": 1,
  "enum_label": "(A)",
  "indent_level": 1,
  "text": "The Office of State Treasurer is authorized to provide financing arrangements under the master lease program on behalf of boards, commissions, institutions, and agencies of state government for the purpose of rentin..."
}

// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in Code of Laws of South Carolina 1976)
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-SC",
  "source_doc_id": "SCCODE-1-1-1210",
  "source_section": "1-1-1210",
  "target_doc_id": "SCCODE-8-11-160",
  "target_section": "8-11-160",
  "target_title": 8,
  "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-SC), collection-scoped primary key (SCCODE-1-1-1020), and global key.
container_type / container_id / container_name VARCHAR Top-level statutory container metadata (e.g., title, 1, Title 1 - Administration of the Government).
chapter_id / chapter_name VARCHAR Intermediate chapter/article identifier and official heading (100% populated across all 30,948 sections).
section_number / heading VARCHAR Canonical section number (e.g., 1-1-1020) 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 (30,839 / 30,948 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_1-1-1020__p_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 63-Title Inventory (Code of Laws of South Carolina 1976)

Breakdown of distinct chapters and statutory sections across all 63 active titles in the October 2026 edition.
Title Title Heading Chapters Sections
Title 1Title 1 - Administration of the Government21460
Title 2Title 2 - General Assembly24307
Title 3Title 3 - U.S. Government, Agreements and Relations With699
Title 4Title 4 - Counties23514
Title 5Title 5 - Municipal Corporations19458
Title 6Title 6 - Local Government - Provisions Applicable to Special Purpose Districts and Other Political Subdivisions25731
Title 7Title 7 - Elections13408
Title 8Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees18348
Title 9Title 9 - Retirement Systems15371
Title 10Title 10 - Public Buildings and Property6121
Title 11Title 11 - Public Finance40730
Title 12Title 12 - Taxation411,377
Title 13Title 13 - Planning, Research and Development10232
Title 14Title 14 - Courts16473
Title 15Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures41627
Title 16Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses17606
Title 17Title 17 - Criminal Procedures19405
Title 18Title 18 - Appeals468
Title 19Title 19 - Evidence769
Title 20Title 20 - Domestic Relations4115
Title 21Title 21 - Estates, Trusts, Guardians and Fiduciaries25
Title 22Title 22 - Magistrates and Constables7169
Title 23Title 23 - Law Enforcement and Public Safety31504
Title 24Title 24 - Corrections, Jails, Probations, Paroles and Pardons15351
Title 25Title 25 - Military, Civil Defense and Veterans Affairs11368
Title 26Title 26 - Notaries Public and Acknowledgements480
Title 27Title 27 - Property and Conveyances32488
Title 28Title 28 - Eminent Domain349
Title 29Title 29 - Mortgages and Other Liens10159
Title 30Title 30 - Public Records10126
Title 31Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment18335
Title 32Title 32 - Contracts and Agents860
Title 33Title 33 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations351,029
Title 34Title 34 - Banking, Financial Institutions and Money22540
Title 35Title 35 - Securities5162
Title 36Title 36 - Commercial Code10524
Title 37Title 37 - Consumer Protection Code21411
Title 38Title 38 - Insurance621,628
Title 39Title 39 - Trade and Commerce41629
Title 40Title 40 - Professions and Occupations621,976
Title 41Title 41 - Labor and Employment27475
Title 42Title 42 - Workers' Compensation10216
Title 43Title 43 - Social Services16356
Title 44Title 44 - Health801,705
Title 45Title 45 - Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Boardinghouses759
Title 46Title 46 - Agriculture33484
Title 47Title 47 - Animals, Livestock and Poultry16322
Title 48Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation45662
Title 49Title 49 - Waters, Water Resources and Drainage17402
Title 50Title 50 - Fish, Game and Watercraft18891
Title 51Title 51 - Parks, Recreation and Tourism12195
Title 52Title 52 - Amusements and Athletic Contests666
Title 53Title 53 - Sundays, Holidays and Other Special Days374
Title 54Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters10176
Title 55Title 55 - Aeronautics8153
Title 56Title 56 - Motor Vehicles241,280
Title 57Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries14369
Title 58Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers261,132
Title 59Title 59 - Education1062,057
Title 60Title 60 - Libraries, Archives, Museums and Arts1071
Title 61Title 61 - Alcohol and Alcoholic Beverages7343
Title 62Title 62 - South Carolina Probate Code8572
Title 63Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code11776
Total (63 Titles) Complete Code of Laws of South Carolina 1976 Corpus 1,292 30,948