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American Samoa Code Annotated (A.S.C.A.) — section lookup by citation and topic/keyword search. Keyless.

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("46.3502" is Murder in the 1st Degree; "1.0201" is laws applicable in American Samoa). Returns the statute text, its chapter, the "History:" amendment line, and any "Case Notes:" (case-law annotations) asbar.org publishes for that section.

• as_statute(citation) — full text of an A.S.C.A. section by citation

site search, filtered to Code Annotated section results, returning matching citations, headings, and URLs.

• as_search(query, limit?) — topic/keyword search via asbar.org's own

names, for routing a subject to the right title number.

• as_titles() — all 38 published titles of the Code with their official

Auth

Keyless.

Covering the DC + territories gap

Bruce asked 2026-10-09 to cover DC and the five inhabited US territories after the 50-state code effort (#2881, #2883-#2885): none of DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or the Northern Mariana Islands had a code pack (dc-dmv is motor-vehicle records only). American Samoa is the first of the six to ship.

Source and the one-hop shape

The American Samoa Bar Association (asbar.org) publishes the full Code Annotated as one WordPress post per section, keyless, no signup — confirmed live against every tool above. Unlike Oklahoma's OSCN or North Dakota's ndlegis.gov, there is no per-title index page to resolve a citation against; instead every section is reachable directly at /code-annotated/TITLE-SECTION-slug/, and the complete citation -> URL map comes from asbar.org's own Yoast SEO XML sitemaps for the codeannotated post type — confirmed the only route, since that post type has no REST route (/wp-json/wp/v2/codeannotated 404s live). as_statute therefore needs only ONE live fetch per call (the section page itself); the citation -> URL resolution is a baked lookup, not a second hop.

Baked index

src/as-index-data.ts bakes the citation -> URL map (and the 38 official title names, from asbar.org's "Code Annotated by Title and Chapter" page) from the four codeannotated-sitemap{,2,3,4}.xml shards — 3,597 URLs, 3,572 citations after resolving a handful of collisions (see below). It goes through KV, not the gateway bundle (workers/gateway/src/pack-baked-indexes.json, fleet #2754) — the gateway injects it as args.bakedIndex on the first call into this pack.

Refresh path. Re-run whenever the Fono amends the Code and asbar.org adds sections (their schedule, not ours):

node mcps/american-samoa-code/scripts/bake-index.mjs > mcps/american-samoa-code/src/as-index-data.ts

It fails loudly if either sitemap count or the title count drops well below what asbar.org serves today — both would mean the site's layout changed under it.

Two collision shapes found live (not a parsing bug — asbar.org's own data)

Six of the 3,578 valid section URLs collide on citation. Every collision was confirmed by fetching both pages' own headings:

published twice, the second time at WordPress's own -2 slug-collision suffix (e.g. 6-0210-entitlement-to-vote and 6-0210-entitlement-to-vote-2, byte-identical statutory text). The generator collapses these to the canonical (non-suffixed) URL.

1. WordPress re-publish duplicates (2 of 6): the identical page

"4.1402 Definitions." and "4.1402 Individualized service plan–Case management." — both published under citation 4.1402. as_statute returns BOTH as candidates with ambiguous: true rather than silently picking one.

1. Genuine citation collisions (4 of 6): two DIFFERENT sections — e.g.

One irregular slug

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.