Tennessee — Tennessee Code

Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the State of Tennessee across all 68 active titles and 1,229 distinct chapters, cryptographically sealed from official Tennessee General Assembly and Tennessee Code Commission sources.

68 Active Titles

1,229 Distinct Chapters

34,357 Statutory Sections

196,426 Subsections

20,871 Citation Edges

100% AKN 3.0 XSD Valid

Single-Snapshot Dataset Acquisition • 10/2026 Edition

Tennessee Code — Complete Medallion Snapshot

One-time purchase for the complete October 2026 (10/2026) edition single-snapshot dataset of the Tennessee 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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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 Tennessee General Assembly and Tennessee Code Commission with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.

Source Authority Tennessee Code Commission
Sealed Payloads 34,357 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 34,357 / 34,357 (100%)
History Coverage 33,295 / 34,357 (96.9%)
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 34,357 Rows (26.79 MB)
Subsection Table 196,426 Rows (24.64 MB)
Citation Graph 20,871 Directed Edges
DuckDB Catalog keystone_tca.duckdb

Artifact / Archive	Layer / Format	Records	Size	SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal
sections.parquet	Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet)	34,357	26.79 MB	3d0244a7f281bbe0c3ce30a8d3e3d4ba8c3d63e6f8bacca1aa8c7f5599f57edb
subsections.parquet	Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet)	196,426	24.64 MB	7b25c552d25298a725c5651db9b99f09165baac8e740fa79cc68792e2b826302
edges.parquet	Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet)	20,871	354.44 KB	ffa2ac21d4325721f1516eba8f6f24d415c244a95a93bb788cee23221ffb4142
keystone_tca_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests)	34,357 files	39.69 MB	3e531e5eea824c23dadf4f06d1c754876c4ca7a1e98881e998ac0c912ac5e264
keystone_tca_silver_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests)	34,357 docs	30.10 MB	8373890165d54b70112249369f225c16ddfa10c6943c3b27b703cfee4317b405
keystone_tca_gold_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests)	251,654	44.05 MB	3b7a23c3e7949cd357cb9c426228383b2309bf0f850911ae3164c8738063e6c3
keystone_tca_title1_sample.tar.gz	Title 1 Sample Showcase Slice (Title 1 - Code And Statutes)	52 secs	56.59 KB	95e72abede20e6bd01930befec545a9eef0e8e3b0cb53767292663108e405817

Canonical Record Specimen: Tenn. Code § 1-1-101

Side-by-side view of Section 1-1-101 (Composition of commission — Vacancies.) in Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML and Gold Parquet JSON representation.

            data/silver/tca/akn_xml/title_01/TCA-1-1-101.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-tn/act/code/tca/1-1-101"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-10-20" name="snapshot"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="US-TN"/>
        </FRBRWork>
      </identification>
      <proprietary source="#pipeline">
        <meta:source_html_sha256>7663380682bd66b3...efb61</meta:source_html_sha256>
        <meta:doc_id>TCA-1-1-101</meta:doc_id>
        <meta:jurisdiction>US-TN</meta:jurisdiction>
        <meta:container_id>1</meta:container_id>
        <meta:chapter_id>1</meta:chapter_id>
        <meta:chapter_name>Code Commission</meta:chapter_name>
        <meta:history_note>Acts 1953, ch. 80, § 1; 1977, ch. 89, § 16; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 1-101; Acts 2016, ch. 603, § 1.</meta:history_note>
      </proprietary>
    </meta>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec_1-1-101">
        <num>1-1-101</num>
        <heading>Composition of commission — Vacancies.</heading>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1-101__p_1" class="indent-1">
          <num>(a)</num>
          <content>
            <p>There is created a Tennessee code commission of five (5)
            members composed of the chief justice of the supreme court,
            the attorney general and reporter, a director of the office of
            legal services for the general asse...</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1-101__p_2" class="indent-1">
          <num>(b)</num>
          <content>
            <p>In the event of a vacancy for any cause in the appointed
            membership, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the
            chief justice.</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
      </section>
    </body>
  </act>
</akomaNtoso>

            gold.sections / gold.subsections / gold.edges
            Gold Parquet Row
          

// 1. sections.parquet (Primary Key: doc_id = "TCA-1-1-101")
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  "jurisdiction": "US-TN",
  "doc_id": "TCA-1-1-101",
  "universal_doc_id": "US-TN-TCA-1-1-101",
  "container_type": "title",
  "container_id": "1",
  "container_name": "Title 1 - Code And Statutes",
  "title": 1,
  "chapter_id": "1",
  "chapter_name": "Code Commission",
  "subchapter_id": "",
  "subchapter_name": "",
  "section_number": "1-1-101",
  "heading": "Composition of commission — Vacancies.",
  "paragraph_count": 2,
  "history_note": "Acts 1953, ch. 80, § 1; 1977, ch. 89, § 16; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 1-101; Acts 2016, ch. 603, § 1.",
  "source_html_sha256": "7663380682bd66b3e607c67ce5e3647eeeb3aa78345b7650f57e45384f5efb61",
  "akn_sha256": "3af6aed3bde3dba4913732debf270f1b2da00511928691cbd43f34bcf53b165b"
}

// 2. subsections.parquet (2 rows for TCA-1-1-101)
{
  "doc_id": "TCA-1-1-101",
  "paragraph_eid": "sec_1-1-101__p_1",
  "paragraph_seq": 1,
  "enum_label": "(a)",
  "indent_level": 1,
  "text": "There is created a Tennessee code commission of five (5) members composed of the chief justice of the supreme court, the attorney general and reporter, a director of the office of legal services for the general asse..."
}

// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in Tennessee Code)
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-TN",
  "source_doc_id": "TCA-1-1-104",
  "source_section": "1-1-104",
  "target_doc_id": "TCA-1-1-101",
  "target_section": "1-1-101",
  "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-TN`), collection-scoped primary key (`TCA-1-1-101`), and global key.
	container_type / container_id / container_name	VARCHAR	Top-level statutory container metadata (e.g., `title`, `1`, `Title 1 - Code And Statutes`).
	chapter_id / chapter_name	VARCHAR	Intermediate chapter/article identifier and official heading (100% populated across all 34,357 sections).
	section_number / heading	VARCHAR	Canonical section number (e.g., `1-1-101`) 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 (33,295 / 34,357 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_1-1-101__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.
edges.parquet	source_section / target_section / citation_count	VARCHAR / INT64	Canonical section numbers and frequency count of cross-references between the pair.

Complete 68-Title Inventory (Tennessee Code)

Breakdown of distinct chapters and statutory sections across all 68 active titles in the October 2026 edition.

Title	Title Heading	Chapters	Sections
Title 1	Title 1 - Code And Statutes	3	52
Title 2	Title 2 - Elections	20	509
Title 3	Title 3 - Legislature	17	253
Title 4	Title 4 - State Government	54	1,311
Title 5	Title 5 - Counties	19	398
Title 6	Title 6 - Cities And Towns	25	576
Title 7	Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities	50	1,196
Title 8	Title 8 - Public Officers And Employees	43	1,627
Title 9	Title 9 - Public Finances	16	532
Title 10	Title 10 - Public Libraries, Archives and Records	6	134
Title 11	Title 11 - Natural Areas and Recreation	21	318
Title 12	Title 12 - Public Property, Printing And Contracts	12	335
Title 13	Title 13 - Public Planning And Housing	23	518
Title 15	Title 15 - Holidays and Days of Special Observance	2	38
Title 16	Title 16 - Courts	15	378
Title 17	Title 17 - Judges And Chancellors	5	122
Title 18	Title 18 - Clerks Of Courts	6	95
Title 19	Title 19 - Civil Procedure In General Sessions Courts	3	4
Title 20	Title 20 - Civil Procedure	17	257
Title 21	Title 21 - Proceedings In Chancery	1	47
Title 22	Title 22 - Juries And Jurors	5	58
Title 23	Title 23 - Attorneys-at-law	4	33
Title 24	Title 24 - Evidence and Witnesses	8	101
Title 25	Title 25 - Judgments	5	67
Title 26	Title 26 - Execution	6	142
Title 27	Title 27 - Appeal And Review	9	87
Title 28	Title 28 - Limitation Of Actions	3	53
Title 29	Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings	41	787
Title 30	Title 30 - Administration of Estates	5	175
Title 31	Title 31 - Descent And Distribution	7	75
Title 32	Title 32 - Wills	6	73
Title 33	Title 33 - Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	10	464
Title 34	Title 34 - Guardianship	11	149
Title 35	Title 35 - Fiduciaries And Trust Estates	18	398
Title 36	Title 36 - Domestic Relations	7	494
Title 37	Title 37 - Juveniles	7	428
Title 38	Title 38 - Prevention And Detection Of Crime	14	209
Title 39	Title 39 - Criminal Offenses	13	741
Title 40	Title 40 - Criminal Procedure	37	890
Title 41	Title 41 - Correctional Institutions and Inmates	17	478
Title 42	Title 42 - Aeronautics	8	155
Title 43	Title 43 - Agriculture And Horticulture	40	698
Title 44	Title 44 - Animals And Animal Husbandry	20	299
Title 45	Title 45 - Banks And Financial Institutions	20	796
Title 46	Title 46 - Cemeteries	6	70
Title 47	Title 47 - Commercial Instruments And Transactions	30	1,431
Title 48	Title 48 - Securities, Corporations And Associations	85	1,047
Title 49	Title 49 - Education	19	1,745
Title 50	Title 50 - Employer And Employee	10	556
Title 53	Title 53 - Food, Drugs And Cosmetics	13	271
Title 54	Title 54 - Highways, Bridges And Ferries	22	686
Title 55	Title 55 - Motor and Other Vehicles	33	1,018
Title 56	Title 56 - Insurance	56	1,865
Title 57	Title 57 - Intoxicating Liquors	8	294
Title 58	Title 58 - Military Affairs, Emergencies and Civil Defense	7	245
Title 59	Title 59 - Mines And Mining	7	172
Title 60	Title 60 - Oil And Gas	4	64
Title 61	Title 61 - Partnerships	3	272
Title 62	Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades	35	936
Title 63	Title 63 - Professions Of The Healing Arts	29	929
Title 64	Title 64 - Regional Authorities	10	281
Title 65	Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers	37	579
Title 66	Title 66 - Property	37	703
Title 67	Title 67 - Taxes And Licenses	10	1,396
Title 68	Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection	62	1,956
Title 69	Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains And Levees	11	461
Title 70	Title 70 - Wildlife Resources	9	221
Title 71	Title 71 - Welfare	7	609
Total (68 Titles)	Complete Tennessee Code Corpus	1,229	34,357