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District of Columbia Code (D.C. Code — DC statutes) — full section text by citation, and topic/chapter search over official headings.

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Tools

"22-2101", murder in the first degree), with the official heading, disposition (in force / repealed / transferred / reserved), legislative History annotations, Prior Codifications, and Cross References.

• dc_statute(citation) — full current text of one D.C. Code section (e.g.

section's official heading (e.g. "eviction notice", "concealed carry permit"), optionally scoped to one title. Pass title alone (no query) to list every section under that title — a chapter-list/browse mode. Not full-text search — the DC Council does not publish one.

• dc_search(query?, title?, limit?) — topic/keyword search over every

Auth

Keyless.

Data sources

— one section's current XML (its heading, body text, and annotations). dc_statute calls this live, per request, pinned to the branch baked below.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DCCouncil/law-xml-codified/{branch}/us/dc/council/code/titles/{title}/sections/{citation}.xml

titles/{title}/index.xml — structure only (title/chapter/subchapter headings + section citation lists, no catchlines). Used only by scripts/bake-index.mjs.

• Same repo's us/dc/council/code/index.xml and

only by scripts/bake-index.mjs to resolve the current publication branch (see below).

• https://api.github.com/repos/DCCouncil/law-xml-codified/branches — used

Licence — public domain, and why this pack is allowed to bake an index

code.dccouncil.gov's own footer: "The codes and laws on this website are in the public domain." The same footer: "Please do not scrape. Instead, bulk download the HTML or XML" from the Council's GitHub organization. This pack follows that instruction literally — it never touches code.dccouncil.gov, only raw.githubusercontent.com content from DCCouncil/law-xml-codified. Public-domain content plus the publisher's own explicit redistribution channel means baking a catchline index from this repo needs no separate grant (root CLAUDE.md, "mirror-needs-grant-proxy-does-not" — the licence-permits-it branch, not the silent/forbidden one). Statutory text itself is also never baked — dc_statute always fetches it live, per call.

The default-branch trap

GET /repos/DCCouncil/law-xml-codified reports defaultbranch: "publication/2021-10-18" — real git metadata, frozen at a 2021 codification, five years stale, even though the repo is actively published: 406 branches existed at bake time, the newest a publication/{base-date}.{amendment-date} pair updated within days. GitHub's "default branch" setting is unrelated to which branch is current. scripts/bake-index.mjs lists every branch (paginated, ~5 unauthenticated requests) and picks the lexicographically-latest name — safe because every name is an ISO-8601 date or a dotted pair of them, so string order is chronological order. The resolved name is baked as DCCODEBRANCH and is what dcstatute's live fetch pins to.

Section XML shape

A short section is one flat element; a section with lettered/numbered subsections nests elements, each with its own ("(a)") and , repeatedly — sometimes nested one level deeper. A reason element reading "Repealed" (or Reserved/Transferred) marks a non-substantive stub whose body text is literally "Repealed." — surfaced as disposition rather than left for the caller to infer. A trailing annotations block (History, Prior Codifications, Cross References, Editor's Notes) is excluded from the body-text walk and returned as its own grouped fields.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.