@pipeworx/michigan-code

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Michigan Compiled Laws by citation. Keyless. 750.316 is first degree murder.

See docs/state-law-probe.md for how this source was verified: every state pack confirms a MISS is distinguishable from a HIT before shipping, because several state sites answer HTTP 200 for statutes that do not exist.

What text contains (fleet #3598)

text is the statute: the section’s catchline and its body, as the Michigan Legislature publishes the Compiled Laws. It does not include the History line (the public acts that enacted or amended the section, with their effective dates), editor’s notes or commentary. Those used to arrive in text when every call was a live read, so a caller that parsed the History line now gets less than it did; nothing was lost from the law itself. Every answer carries a text_scope field saying which it is: the stored copy (served_from: "stored-copy") is statute text only, while the live fallback returns the page text from the section number onward and can still include History and editor’s notes. A repealed section is stored with its repeal note as its text.

Stored copy and data_as_of (fleet #3546)

The Legislature’s site answers US data centres but refuses or stalls from Singapore: over 7 days external callers saw 3 successes against 98 “down” and 23 “forbidden” from there. A cache cannot help a first touch, so the Michigan Compiled Laws is stored, one JSON object per MCL chapter number (the part of a citation before the dot), in the shared statute store (R2, statutes/mi/) that the Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Wyoming packs also use. The gateway hands the pack its R2 binding and the pack reads only the object a call names (a very large chapter is a small head plus parts, and a call reads the head and one part). A section found there is answered with no upstream request; the response says served_from: "stored-copy" and carries data_as_of (when that chapter was last read from the source). A section the copy cannot answer (chapter missing, object unreadable, or listed with no stored text) falls back to the live read. Absence is never remembered: a chapter published later is served as soon as it exists.

Nothing is loaded at module scope: the data never enters the gateway bundle.

Refresh

node mcps/michigan-code/scripts/bake-chapters.mjs            # all chapters -> mcps/michigan-code/.bake/
node mcps/michigan-code/scripts/bake-chapters.mjs --only X   # one chapter
node mcps/michigan-code/scripts/bake-chapters.mjs --resume   # keep source pages already fetched
node mcps/michigan-code/scripts/upload-chapters.mjs          # publish to R2 (statutes/mi/), changed files only

The source is the Legislature’s published text of the Compiled Laws, one file per chapter, read under its own policy for automated collection (one request per second at most; this refresh makes one request per chapter file, two seconds apart). Repealed sections are stored with their repeal note. Sequential, with a delay between requests, an honest user agent, bounded retries, and a stop on the first 429/403/451. Exit 0 only if every chapter was fetched and parsed and the totals clear the floors (default 200 chapters, 15,000 sections with text); anything less exits 1 with the counts. A chapter whose text is unchanged keeps its previous data_as_of. The baked files are a working copy, not committed (.bake/ is gitignored); upload-chapters.mjs writes only the files whose content hash differs from the one recorded in statutes/mi/_manifest.json, so a refresh that finds nothing new writes nothing. It uses wrangler r2 object put --remote under the operator login; no API token.

Data source

Michigan Legislature, Michigan Compiled Laws. Michigan statutes are public record.

Freshness of the live fallback

On the live path a section is read once a day at most. When the legislature site cannot be reached, an earlier copy of the same section answers and the response says so (served_from: "stale-cache", stale: true, data_as_of). A section with no earlier copy fails with an error that names a firewall block as one.

Tools

• mi_compiled_law — Get the FULL TEXT of a section of the Michigan Compiled Laws — Michigan state statutes — by citation. “MCL 750.316” is first degree murder. Returns the statutory text only: the catchline and body of t