Statute section by citation
statuteExact lookup of one statute section or one regulation section by citation, in a point-in-time snapshot of published law. Returns the text verbatim with jurisdiction, corpus, citation, heading, path, source_url, as_of, act_status, last_amended_year and repaired. Enacted text only: not case law or annotations, no treatment or "good law" judgment, and nothing in a result means the text is current; as_of on each row is its snapshot date. Default source: 2,123,652 rows in four snapshots, never blended (state statutes from open-us-law 2026.08, as_of 2026-08-14; state statutes from Justia 2019-2021 where the newer snapshot lacks the section, with GA, NC, PR and VI Justia-only; the United States Code; and 9,888 Kansas Administrative Regulations from the 2022 bound edition). source= reaches one regulation source (cfr for federal, or a state code), each with its own note, coverage_note, defect floor, held units and citation form, never mixed with another. Regulations outside the loaded sources are absent from this mirror, which says nothing about whether a rule exists. A miss is not an absence: structured_lookup_supported=false means that lookup form cannot match for the jurisdiction, and cite_normalized and cite_forms_tried report the forms tried. Row flags: ends_at_colon (text stopping where a table or list is announced; its absence does not show the text is whole), page_overlap_repeats_removed (raw=true returns the stored text unchanged), last_amended_year_older_than_text. A held unit answers kind "held" with its reasons and no text. Every response, including 400 and 404, carries "note" and "coverage_note". The sources tool returns this tool’s full coverage statement and, per source code, its coverage, citation forms, served and held counts and read dates.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| raw | No | statutes only: true returns the stored text unchanged, without the page-overlap repeat removal | |
| cite | No | full citation as published, e.g. "KRS § 11A.001" (2026-08-14 rows, no year), "KS Stat § 1-201 (2021)" (Justia rows), or "K.A.R. 1-1-1" (Kansas regulations, no section sign) — the reliable form for every jurisdiction | |
| title | No | optional title or chapter number narrowing a jurisdiction+section lookup; with source="cfr" the CFR title, required with section; for other sources the forms are given by sources(tool="statute", source=<code>) | |
| source | No | omit for statutes and Kansas regulations; a regulation source code ("cfr" for federal, or a state code) reaches that source alone; each code’s coverage and citation forms are given by sources(tool="statute", source=<code>) | |
| section | No | section number as the publisher prints it, e.g. "21-6614", "11A.001", or a Kansas regulation number "1-1-1"; requires jurisdiction. Justia rows carry none, so this can never match one of them | |
| jurisdiction | No | jurisdiction code, e.g. "us" or "ks"; requires section. Resolves for the federal slice, for 2026-08-14 state rows and for the Kansas regulation rows (Justia-only GA/NC/PR/VI never match this way) |