South Dakota — South Dakota Codified Laws

Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the State of South Dakota across all 64 active titles and 986 distinct chapters, cryptographically sealed from official South Dakota Legislature Legislative Research Council (sdlegislature.gov) sources.

64 Active Titles

986 Distinct Chapters

30,412 Statutory Sections

84,984 Subsections

17,467 Citation Edges

100% AKN 3.0 XSD Valid

Single-Snapshot Dataset Acquisition • 10/2026 Edition

South Dakota Codified Laws — Complete Medallion Snapshot

One-time purchase for the complete October 2026 (10/2026) edition single-snapshot dataset of the South Dakota Codified Laws. 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

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 Dakota 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 Dakota Legislature Legislative Research Council (sdlegislature.gov) with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.

Source Authority SD Legislative Research Council
Sealed Payloads 30,412 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 30,412 / 30,412 (100%)
History Coverage 29,983 / 30,412 (98.6%)
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 30,412 Rows (14.34 MB)
Subsection Table 84,984 Rows (11.38 MB)
Citation Graph 17,467 Directed Edges
DuckDB Catalog keystone_sdcl.duckdb

Artifact / Archive	Layer / Format	Records	Size	SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal
sections.parquet	Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet)	30,412	14.34 MB	acc7ebe7d60b0937bdb93ddd385726f19378c805099443b2e8fa261fefba5db7
subsections.parquet	Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet)	84,984	11.38 MB	123807808b29befde32320f8f44ae38a26a8460fcc8d8fb7ad51a4d0bc2b90dd
edges.parquet	Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet)	17,467	325.82 KB	3653d16765e4e77c5a9ea10c4962be782d4637aeed2b0529247cb9aec67be92a
keystone_sdcl_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests)	30,412 files	14.44 MB	89658c523caa03439b2a4aa0fa6d1391e1e9f5b3d6356d58ba323bbb45c29328
keystone_sdcl_silver_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests)	30,412 docs	17.16 MB	2206a4089996520d67a8ca1a0b3406c450c3fc58f65ec54b1a7058ee88dd8dac
keystone_sdcl_gold_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests)	132,863	21.59 MB	43f02851260685254586e304923f6378caa30c77714931f05525beb09a2d4248
keystone_sdcl_title1_sample.tar.gz	Title 1 Sample Showcase Slice (Title 1 - State Affairs and Government)	1,024 secs	633.01 KB	00dfdce64436a7e7703a65a3361a65d71c1eb19baff0f33d6598adeb4687a279

Canonical Record Specimen: SDCL § 1-1-1.1

Side-by-side view of Section 1-1-1.1 (Retrocession of jurisdiction over federal enclaves--Indian lands excluded--Filing of documents--Document content--Agreement authorized.) in Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML and Gold Parquet JSON representation.

            data/silver/sdcl/akn_xml/title_01/SDCL-1-1-1.1.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="/akn/us-sd/act/code/sdcl/1-1-1.1"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-10-20" name="snapshot"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="US-SD"/>
        </FRBRWork>
      </identification>
      <proprietary source="#pipeline">
        <meta:source_html_sha256>e47e20f38f95e7b9...aa453</meta:source_html_sha256>
        <meta:doc_id>SDCL-1-1-1.1</meta:doc_id>
        <meta:jurisdiction>US-SD</meta:jurisdiction>
        <meta:container_id>1</meta:container_id>
        <meta:chapter_id>1</meta:chapter_id>
        <meta:chapter_name>STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND JURISDICTION</meta:chapter_name>
        <meta:history_note>SL 1975, ch 63 ; SL 2024, ch 3 , § 1.</meta:history_note>
      </proprietary>
    </meta>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec_1-1-1.1">
        <num>1-1-1.1</num>
        <heading>Retrocession of jurisdiction over federal enclaves--Indian lands excluded--Filing of documents--Document content--Agreement authorized.</heading>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1-1.1__p_1" class="indent-1">
          <content>
            <p>By appropriate executive order, the Governor may accept on
            behalf of the state retrocession of full or partial
            jurisdiction, juvenile, criminal, or civil, over any roads,
            highways, or other lands in federal enclaves...</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1-1.1__p_2" class="indent-1">
          <num>(1)</num>
          <content>
            <p>State the subject matter for the jurisdiction offer;</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <!-- 3 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 = "SDCL-1-1-1.1")
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-SD",
  "doc_id": "SDCL-1-1-1.1",
  "universal_doc_id": "US-SD-SDCL-1-1-1.1",
  "container_type": "title",
  "container_id": "1",
  "container_name": "Title 1 - State Affairs and Government",
  "title": 1,
  "chapter_id": "1",
  "chapter_name": "STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND JURISDICTION",
  "subchapter_id": "",
  "subchapter_name": "",
  "section_number": "1-1-1.1",
  "heading": "Retrocession of jurisdiction over federal enclaves--Indian lands excluded--Filing of documents--Document content--Agreement authorized.",
  "paragraph_count": 5,
  "history_note": "SL 1975, ch 63 ; SL 2024, ch 3 , § 1.",
  "source_html_sha256": "e47e20f38f95e7b92f9d1f876f0413c6e87c04435cb83eb6c3b6bb17e55aa453",
  "akn_sha256": "fd95351c38bfd2e670238b053f936042b8cde74fcb19ec87677497d47e542e66"
}

// 2. subsections.parquet (5 rows for SDCL-1-1-1.1)
{
  "doc_id": "SDCL-1-1-1.1",
  "paragraph_eid": "sec_1-1-1.1__p_2",
  "paragraph_seq": 2,
  "enum_label": "(1)",
  "indent_level": 1,
  "text": "State the subject matter for the jurisdiction offer;"
}

// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in South Dakota Codified Laws)
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-SD",
  "source_doc_id": "SDCL-1-1-12",
  "source_section": "1-1-12",
  "target_doc_id": "SDCL-1-1-16",
  "target_section": "1-1-16",
  "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-SD`), collection-scoped primary key (`SDCL-1-1-1.1`), and global key.
	container_type / container_id / container_name	VARCHAR	Top-level statutory container metadata (e.g., `title`, `1`, `Title 1 - State Affairs and Government`).
	chapter_id / chapter_name	VARCHAR	Intermediate chapter/article identifier and official heading (100% populated across all 30,412 sections).
	section_number / heading	VARCHAR	Canonical section number (e.g., `1-1-1.1`) 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 (29,983 / 30,412 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_1-1-1.1__p_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 64-Title Inventory (South Dakota Codified Laws)

Breakdown of distinct chapters and statutory sections across all 64 active titles in the October 2026 edition.

Title	Title Heading	Chapters	Sections
Title 1	Title 1 - State Affairs and Government	39	1,024
Title 2	Title 2 - Legislature and Statutes	13	305
Title 3	Title 3 - Public Officers and Employees	16	663
Title 4	Title 4 - Public Fiscal Administration	8	248
Title 5	Title 5 - Public Property, Purchases and Contracts	27	617
Title 6	Title 6 - Local Government Generally	4	118
Title 7	Title 7 - Counties	10	326
Title 8	Title 8 - Townships	4	85
Title 9	Title 9 - Municipal Government	24	617
Title 10	Title 10 - Taxation	49	1,763
Title 11	Title 11 - Planning, Zoning and Housing Programs	16	645
Title 12	Title 12 - Elections	20	585
Title 13	Title 13 - Education	68	1,408
Title 14	Title 14 - Libraries	2	55
Title 15	Title 15 - Civil Procedure	12	313
Title 16	Title 16 - Courts and Judiciary	14	427
Title 17	Title 17 - Notice and Publication	1	27
Title 18	Title 18 - Oaths and Acknowledgments	7	96
Title 19	Title 19 - Evidence	1	91
Title 20	Title 20 - Personal Rights and Obligations	2	147
Title 21	Title 21 - Judicial Remedies	70	1,078
Title 22	Title 22 - Crimes	28	539
Title 23	Title 23 - Law Enforcement	7	258
Title 23A	Title 23A - Criminal Procedure	25	568
Title 24	Title 24 - Correctional Facilities and Parole	17	302
Title 25	Title 25 - Domestic Relations	10	477
Title 26	Title 26 - Minors	9	399
Title 27A	Title 27A - Mentally Ill Persons	5	139
Title 27B	Title 27B - Developmentally Disabled Persons	7	134
Title 28	Title 28 - Public Welfare and Assistance	7	124
Title 29A	Title 29A - Uniform Probate Code	2	203
Title 31	Title 31 - Highways and Bridges	32	735
Title 32	Title 32 - Motor Vehicles	37	1,581
Title 33	Title 33 - Military Affairs	17	463
Title 33A	Title 33A - Veterans Affairs	4	116
Title 34	Title 34 - Public Health and Safety	34	1,313
Title 34A	Title 34A - Environmental Protection	20	645
Title 35	Title 35 - Alcoholic Beverages	17	308
Title 36	Title 36 - Professions and Occupations	52	1,877
Title 37	Title 37 - Trade Regulation	5	109
Title 38	Title 38 - Agriculture and Horticulture	25	727
Title 39	Title 39 - Food and Drugs	1	48
Title 40	Title 40 - Animals and Livestock	10	217
Title 41	Title 41 - Game, Fish, Parks and Forestry	13	345
Title 42	Title 42 - Recreation and Sports	5	296
Title 43	Title 43 - Property	16	385
Title 44	Title 44 - Liens	2	64
Title 45	Title 45 - Mining, Oil and Gas	3	173
Title 46	Title 46 - Water Rights	2	49
Title 46A	Title 46A - Water Management	24	968
Title 47	Title 47 - Corporations	38	1,553
Title 48	Title 48 - Partnerships	1	73
Title 49	Title 49 - Public Utilities and Carriers	21	724
Title 50	Title 50 - Aviation	3	32
Title 51A	Title 51A - Banks and Banking	10	383
Title 53	Title 53 - Contracts	1	17
Title 54	Title 54 - Debtor and Creditor	3	108
Title 55	Title 55 - Fiduciaries and Trusts	13	375
Title 57A	Title 57A - Uniform Commercial Code	11	606
Title 58	Title 58 - Insurance	31	1,949
Title 59	Title 59 - Agency	2	74
Title 60	Title 60 - Labor and Employment	5	67
Title 61	Title 61 - Reemployment Assistance	3	244
Title 62	Title 62 - Workers' Compensation	1	7
Total (64 Titles)	Complete South Dakota Codified Laws Corpus	986	30,412