add la, mt, sd statutes (137,715 sections measured); card: 27 states, 1,272,045 sections; sections a legislature lists with no text of their own are not rows

README.md

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 # US Statutes — held word for word
 
-**1,134,330 statute sections**: the whole **United States Code** (60,433 sections, all 53 titles)
-plus **24 states** (1,073,897 sections), each section as its legislature publishes it, with
+**1,272,045 statute sections**: the whole **United States Code** (60,433 sections, all 53 titles)
+plus **27 states** (1,211,612 sections), each section as its legislature publishes it, with
 the URL it was taken from. Statutes are the law a court applies; a paraphrase is not usable in a filing,
 so the text here is verbatim.
 
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 | Oregon (`or`) | 72,649 | `Oregon Revised Statutes` |
 | New Jersey (`nj`) | 56,003 | `New Jersey Statutes (General and Permanent Statutes, offici…` |
 | Nebraska (`ne`) | 55,413 | `Nebraska Revised Statutes` |
+| Louisiana (`la`) | 52,622 | `Louisiana Revised Statutes`, `Louisiana Civil Code`, `Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure` … |
 | Washington (`wa`) | 51,174 | `Revised Code of Washington` |
 | Alabama (`al`) | 49,240 | `Code of Alabama 1975` |
 | Illinois (`il`) | 48,587 * | `Illinois Compiled Statutes` |
 | Iowa (`ia`) | 47,238 | `Iowa Code` |
 | Maine (`me`) | 45,774 | `Maine Revised Statutes` |
+| Montana (`mt`) | 44,609 | `Montana Code Annotated`, `Constitution of the State of Montana` |
+| South Dakota (`sd`) | 40,484 | `South Dakota Codified Laws`, `Constitution of the State of South Dakota` |
 | New York (`ny`) | 34,826 | `Public Authorities Law`, `Education Law`, `Environmental Conservation Law` … |
 | Virginia (`va`) | 33,082 | `Code of Virginia Title 15.2 (Counties, Cities and Towns)`, `Code of Virginia Title 38.2 (Insurance)`, `Code of Virginia Title 46.2 (Motor Vehicles)` … |
 | Rhode Island (`ri`) | 32,579 | `Rhode Island General Laws` |
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 Every count in that table is measured from the file in `data/` as of 2026-09-11 — not estimated, and not
 taken from any index page's own total.
 
+Louisiana, Montana and South Dakota were added on 2026-09-17, counted from their files the same way. Their
+crawls finished on 2026-09-11 after the other states were published. A state's legislature also lists
+section numbers that carry no text of their own; those are not rows here. South Dakota lists 6,980 of
+them: every one of 25 checked at random was repealed, transferred or rejected by referendum, and its
+whole entry is a line such as *"Repealed by SL 2006, ch 130, § 1."* Louisiana lists 11, all empty at the
+source: reserved or redesignated numbers, plus one chapter heading with no section under it.
+
 `*` Illinois is a **snapshot of a harvest that was still running** when its file was published —
 48,587 sections so far (the ILCS crawl at ftp.ilga.gov honours a 10-second crawl delay). It is a
 complete record of what had been fetched, and will be republished when the crawl finishes. New York is the

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