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2012 Code as JSON

code.json.zip (26.4 MB)
This is the basic data about every law, one JSON file per law. Fields include section, catch line, text, history, and structural ancestry (i.e., title number/name and chapter number/name). Note that any sections that contain colons (e.g., § 8.01-581.12:2) have an underscore in place of the colon in the filename, because neither Windows nor Mac OS support colons in filenames.

2012 Code as XML

code.xml.zip (28.6 MB)
This is the basic data about every law, one XML file per law, in The State Decoded’s native XML format. Note that any sections that contain colons (e.g., § 8.01-581.12:2) have an underscore in place of the colon in the filename (e.g., 8.01-581.12_2.xml), because neither Windows nor Mac OS support colons in filenames.

2012 Code as SGML

code.sgml.zip (13.4 MB)
This is the SGML file provided by the Code Commission of Virginia. There is no DTD, the Titles aren’t listed, some parts of the Code are missing, and there’s no documentation.

Title and Chapter Structures as CSV

structure.zip (24 KB)
Every chapter of the Code, in order, with its container title name and number, and the chapter’s name and number.

Title, Chapter, and Section Structures as CSV

structure-sections.zip (604 KB)
Every section of the Code, in order, with its container chapter name and number and that chapter’s containing title’s name and number.

Dictionary as JSON

dictionary.json.zip (1 MB)
All terms defined in the Code, with each term’s definition, the section in which it is defined, and the scope (section, chapter, title, universal) of that definition. Note that some terms are not yet detected by the scraper, so this is not an exhaustive list of terms.