U.S. Virgin Islands — Virgin Islands Code

Complete, unannotated statutory corpus and directed cross-reference citation graph for the Territory of the United States Virgin Islands across all 36 active titles and 556 distinct chapters, cryptographically sealed from official Legislature of the Virgin Islands Office of the Code Revisor sources.

36 Active Titles

556 Distinct Chapters

11,751 Statutory Sections

31,660 Subsections

2,375 Citation Edges

100% AKN 3.0 XSD Valid

Single-Snapshot Dataset Acquisition • 10/2026 Edition

Virgin Islands Code — Complete Medallion Snapshot

One-time purchase for the complete October 2026 (10/2026) edition single-snapshot dataset of the Virgin Islands 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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Keystone Legal Data — Commercial Dataset License Agreement Standard Single-Snapshot Terms (v2026.10)

1. Grant of Perpetual Single-Snapshot License

Upon payment of the one-time $2,000 USD license fee, Keystone Data Services LLC, d/b/a Keystone Legal Data ("Licensor"), grants Customer ("Licensee") a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide enterprise license to store, query, index, and use the 10/2026 Edition Single-Snapshot Dataset of the Virgin Islands Code (including all delivered Bronze source files, Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML files, Gold Parquet tables, directed citation graph schemas, and cryptographic manifests, collectively the "Licensed Dataset"). Future statutory editions or legislative updates are sold separately as independent snapshots.

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 Territory of the United States Virgin Islands 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 Legislature of the Virgin Islands Office of the Code Revisor with wire-level SHA-256 hashes and structural hierarchy metadata.

Source Authority Legislature of the Virgin Islands
Sealed Payloads 11,751 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 11,751 / 11,751 (100%)
History Coverage 11,751 / 11,751 (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 11,751 Rows (4.90 MB)
Subsection Table 31,660 Rows (3.88 MB)
Citation Graph 2,375 Directed Edges
DuckDB Catalog keystone_vic.duckdb

Artifact / Archive	Layer / Format	Records	Size	SHA-256 Cryptographic Seal
sections.parquet	Gold Columnar Table (Snappy Parquet)	11,751	4.90 MB	6297e000e81f90d4b5cf975a3d149ca80526ed0ec46cdfa719cf2e48c74fd77f
subsections.parquet	Gold Hierarchical Paragraphs (Snappy Parquet)	31,660	3.88 MB	4dec1f9d5590986631346c8aff8dfbe714d034d760c0f3f5a92cb3d995ff52ec
edges.parquet	Gold Directed Citation Graph (Snappy Parquet)	2,375	44.26 KB	1982aec39554fb40e18d08aa1b0227caaf0cd4f70281aa011af46e5abe474abd
keystone_vic_bronze_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Bronze Source Archive (Raw Payloads + Manifests)	11,751 files	3.79 MB	dae38f8dfbde3e62b33e009b3f9fa371d5eb4ef63dd5d311d010a5cdbb1f7f67
keystone_vic_silver_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Silver OASIS AKN 3.0 XML Archive (XML + XSD + Manifests)	11,751 docs	5.87 MB	d8e3fd27533222c47100bc66966997769c027a762ad0ded090d02f8e342428f6
keystone_vic_gold_2026-10.tar.gz	Complete Gold Release Archive (Parquet + Manifests)	45,786	7.21 MB	56cf28b2ff06940749a52cfd52430d0ed0a9661202388f7f33dc9d849b1fc3ae
keystone_vic_title1_sample.tar.gz	Title 1 Sample Showcase Slice (Title 1 - General Provisions)	146 secs	147.37 KB	4f66629d2e800a09d4fe0816c171da924bc061da506864a01dbc022bade0b824

Canonical Record Specimen: V.I.C. § 1-1

Side-by-side view of Section 1-1 (Designation and citation of Code) in Silver OASIS Akoma Ntoso 3.0 XML and Gold Parquet JSON representation.

            data/silver/vic/akn_xml/title_1/VIC-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="/us-vi/act/vic/title-1/section-1-1"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-10-21" name="snapshot"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="US-VI"/>
        </FRBRWork>
      </identification>
      <proprietary source="#pipeline">
        <meta:source_html_sha256>5209a6c50a4e2a33...5e155</meta:source_html_sha256>
        <meta:doc_id>VIC-1-1</meta:doc_id>
        <meta:jurisdiction>US-VI</meta:jurisdiction>
        <meta:container_id>1</meta:container_id>
        <meta:chapter_id>1</meta:chapter_id>
        <meta:chapter_name>Chapter 1 - Virgin Islands Code</meta:chapter_name>
        <meta:history_note>1 V.I.C. § 1.</meta:history_note>
      </proprietary>
    </meta>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec_1-1">
        <num>1-1</num>
        <heading>Designation and citation of Code</heading>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1__para_1" class="indent-1">
          <num>(a)</num>
          <content>
            <p>(a) The laws embraced in the titles herein contained, as
            amended from time to time, constitute the “Virgin Islands
            Code.”</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph eId="sec_1-1__para_2" class="indent-1">
          <num>(b)</num>
          <content>
            <p>(b) This Code may be cited by the abbreviation “V.I.C.”
            preceded by the number of the title and followed by the number
            of the section, chapter, or part in the title.</p>
          </content>
        </paragraph>
      </section>
    </body>
  </act>
</akomaNtoso>

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

// 1. sections.parquet (Primary Key: doc_id = "VIC-1-1")
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-VI",
  "doc_id": "VIC-1-1",
  "universal_doc_id": "US-VI-VIC-1-1",
  "container_type": "title",
  "container_id": "1",
  "container_name": "Title 1 - General Provisions",
  "title": 1,
  "chapter_id": "1",
  "chapter_name": "Chapter 1 - Virgin Islands Code",
  "subchapter_id": "",
  "subchapter_name": "",
  "section_number": "1-1",
  "heading": "Designation and citation of Code",
  "paragraph_count": 2,
  "history_note": "1 V.I.C. § 1.",
  "source_html_sha256": "5209a6c50a4e2a33ed938f3bdadaf752c42edfd3ae9886f0d9e1eee28955e155",
  "akn_sha256": "f26644be9777c786f3ca5628c8cc4c3b8c016c09b64ae1c057686ea32791fd55"
}

// 2. subsections.parquet (2 rows for VIC-1-1)
{
  "doc_id": "VIC-1-1",
  "paragraph_eid": "sec_1-1__para_1",
  "paragraph_seq": 1,
  "enum_label": "(a)",
  "indent_level": 1,
  "text": "(a) The laws embraced in the titles herein contained, as amended from time to time, constitute the “Virgin Islands Code.”"
}

// 3. edges.parquet (Sample Directed Citation Edge in Virgin Islands Code)
{
  "jurisdiction": "US-VI",
  "source_doc_id": "VIC-1-10",
  "source_section": "1-10",
  "target_doc_id": "VIC-1-5",
  "target_section": "1-5",
  "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-VI`), collection-scoped primary key (`VIC-1-1`), 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 11,751 sections).
	section_number / heading	VARCHAR	Canonical section number (e.g., `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 (11,751 / 11,751 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__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 36-Title Inventory (Virgin Islands Code)

Breakdown of distinct chapters and statutory sections across all 36 active titles in the October 2026 edition.

Title	Title Heading	Chapters	Sections
Title 1	Title 1 - General Provisions	12	146
Title 2	Title 2 - Legislature	10	74
Title 3	Title 3 - Executive	34	609
Title 4	Title 4 - Judiciary	21	126
Title 5	Title 5 - Judicial Procedure	4	664
Title 6	Title 6 - Aeronautics	5	36
Title 7	Title 7 - Agriculture	7	77
Title 8	Title 8 - Alcoholic Beverages	4	37
Title 9	Title 9 - Banking	20	567
Title 10	Title 10 - Civil Rights	6	51
Title 11	Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade	11	141
Title 11A	Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code	10	598
Title 12	Title 12 - Conservation	21	368
Title 12A	Title 12A - Consumer Code	7	167
Title 13	Title 13 - Corporations and Associations	11	348
Title 14	Title 14 - Crimes	77	518
Title 15	Title 15 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations / Uniform Probate Code	8	632
Title 16	Title 16 - Domestic Relations	10	255
Title 17	Title 17 - Education	37	387
Title 18	Title 18 - Elections	17	225
Title 19	Title 19 - Health	8	722
Title 20	Title 20 - Highways and Motor Vehicles	2	274
Title 21	Title 21 - Homesteads and Home Loans	5	62
Title 22	Title 22 - Insurance	49	980
Title 23	Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order	14	418
Title 24	Title 24 - Labor	19	299
Title 25	Title 25 - Navigation	9	60
Title 26	Title 26 - Partnerships	2	130
Title 27	Title 27 - Professions and Occupations	22	514
Title 28	Title 28 - Property	23	372
Title 29	Title 29 - Public Planning and Development	24	535
Title 30	Title 30 - Public Service	7	135
Title 31	Title 31 - Public Works and Property	2	76
Title 32	Title 32 - Sports and Parks	19	343
Title 33	Title 33 - Taxation and Finance	3	601
Title 34	Title 34 - Welfare	16	204
Total (36 Titles)	Complete Virgin Islands Code Corpus	556	11,751