Why publish this
A citation is the one part of a legal reference a reader can check independently. That makes it the part most worth getting right — and, in practice, the part that goes wrong quietest. A section number lends a claim the appearance of verification whether or not anyone opened it.
This audit has already turned up five states whose governing statute was cited as something else entirely. Arizona pointed at its permit statute instead of its carry provision. Oklahoma pointed at its preemption statute. Kentucky pointed at its licence statute. Vermont cited a criminal prohibition on carrying with intent to injure as though it authorised carry. And through an editing error of our own, Alabama spent a fortnight citing Arizona’s statute while Kansas cited Oklahoma’s.
So every citation on this site now lives in one registry, keyed to the jurisdiction that owns it. A section cannot appear under two states without failing our build, a state cannot reference another state’s provision, and a citation that no page uses gets flagged rather than quietly accumulating. The list below is that registry, rendered.
The index
Entries marked pending annotation belong to records we have not yet re-verified — the citation is published as we found it, and its role has not been confirmed against the section text. See data freshness for which records those are.
Spotted a wrong citation?
If a section here does not say what we have used it for, that is the single most useful correction you can send us. Include the state and the section, and we will check it against the official text and log the outcome publicly on our change log. Contact us.