# National currentness assessment

**Evidence cutoff:** 5 September 2026

**Latest indexed enactment checked:** 14 August 2026

**Catalog release:** `dr_2026-09-05_national_001`

**State:** `active`, `provisional`, eligible for the free public API

The release contains 20,633 canonical places: the complete 20,621-place ONE 2021 graph plus 10
places observed only in the current layers and 2 formerly orphaned subbarrios whose current parents
are now present. It applies the four municipality elevations supported by effective law for the
release date. It preserves every old ONE identifier as a source-scoped historical classification;
it does not invent replacement municipality codes.

| Place | Canonical 2026 kind | Canonical parent | Basis |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tireo | Municipality | La Vega province | Law 11-24; general publication deadline |
| Villa Central | Municipality | Barahona province | Law 16-24 |
| La Caleta | Municipality | Santo Domingo province | Law 39-24; general publication deadline |
| La Victoria | Municipality | Santo Domingo province | Laws 15-24 and 40-24; effective 1 January 2026 |

Villa Central is unquestionably effective for the 2026 release, but Law 16-24 states 20 February
2024 even though it was promulgated on 2 June 2024. The catalog leaves the exact historical start
date null and retains the stated date and chronology conflict in the interpretation evidence.

Laws 11-24 and 39-24 use the general entry-into-force formula. Article 1 of the Civil Code makes a
law known on the second day after official publication in provinces outside the National District.
The candidate therefore interprets Tireo as effective on 18 February 2024 and La Caleta on 17 August
2024. These are explicit, reviewable interpretations rather than dates stated verbatim by those
laws.

## Current-source cross-check

Six hash-pinned GeoJSON layers attributed to ONE's Portal Geoestadístico were compared with every
applicable ONE 2021 row. Their ArcGIS items were modified in October 2025, but that hosting timestamp
is not treated as a legal effective date.

| Layer | Features | Unique codes | Additions | Omissions | Same-code name changes | Duplicate codes |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Regions | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Provinces | 32 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Municipalities | 158 | 158 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Municipality heads and municipal districts | 393 | 393 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Urban zones and sections | 1,608 | 1,599 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Barrios and parajes | 12,813 | 12,813 | 10 | 5 | 19 | 0 |

The municipality/district layer still classifies Tireo, Villa Central, La Caleta, and La Victoria as
municipal districts. Effective law therefore overrides only their canonical kind and parent; the
source records remain unchanged.

The two duplicate section codes are `0125010802`, reused for eight Parada names, and `0427020302`,
reused for three Kilómetro names. File order cannot decide which name is canonical, so each code is
represented by one conflicted identity carrying every observed name. The five barrio/paraje
omissions are not interpreted as abolitions: the older places remain provisional because a
geometry-layer omission is not a legal act. The ten additions are present as provisional places.
For 23 same-code changes, the current observed name is preferred and the prior name remains an
alias.

The complete deterministic report is reproduced with:

```bash
NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 corepack pnpm catalog sources cross-check-one
```

Its canonical JSON SHA-256 for this evidence set is
`7d06bdb0d09192213bda303263b75233b0dba5f27206a980f5205a50816e8536`.

## Legal inventory coverage

The official Consultoría Jurídica search API returned 70 laws for publication year 2025 and 21 for
2026. Titles and summaries were screened for territorial creation, elevation, abolition, renaming,
or reparenting. No later territorial change was identified. The newest indexed promulgation in those
responses was Law 74-25, dated 14 August 2026 and published in Official Gazette 11257.

This is strong negative evidence, not proof that an unindexed or indirectly worded enactment does
not exist. The exact query scope, response hashes, conclusion, and limitation are stored in
[`national-2026-09-05.json`](../sources/interpretations/national-2026-09-05.json).

Consultoría Jurídica's former `Consulta/Home/FileManagement` links now return 404. The current
`/api/document/{documentId}` routes reproduce the already pinned bytes for Laws 11-24, 15-24,
16-24, 39-24, and 40-24 exactly; their SHA-256 values did not change. The registry uses the current
routes while the earlier acquisition report remains historical evidence of the former routes.

## Reconciliation and publication outcome

The release records reviewed dispositions for all 15 inherited reconciliation items. Three repeated
subbarrio tuples remain one conflicted identity with all observed names. The 2021 Manacle assertion
that reused Higo Grande's tuple is rejected in favor of the distinct current Manacle code. Two
formerly orphaned rows are accepted after their current parent places are added. Two obsolete Villa
Verde missing-parent claims are rejected without rewriting current identity. The Korea row uses the
province-supported region, six source-summary mismatches retain the qualified row-level records, and
the two malformed one-digit source segments remain explicit rejected rows rather than silently
padded identifiers.

The modern comparison contributes 40 additional decisions: 10 additions, 5 retained omissions, 23
name changes, and 2 duplicate-code conflicts. The reconciliation command also inserts 15,014 current
ONE source records and 7 legal source records, then proves there is no open reconciliation item,
undispositioned rejection, or source match requiring review. Repeating the command returns
`already_reconciled` only after matching the supplied inputs to the immutable release binding and
checking the exact stored artifacts, attestations, source records, release matches, decisions, and
rejection dispositions.

Here, a terminal reconciliation status means that every observed discrepancy has a recorded
treatment. It does not make a provisional assertion verified, make a conflicted code unambiguous, or
prove that an unindexed or indirectly worded enactment does not exist. Those limits remain visible in
release and place `qualityStatus` values and in provenance conflicts.

The free public API is allowed under two independent evidence scopes. The operator confirmation
covers derived ONE territorial data from both the 2021 publication and the hash-pinned current
layers. Dominican Copyright Law 65-00, Article 41 supplies the recorded statutory basis for the
legal assertions, with source attribution and conformity to the official edition. The activation
command assesses those rights before moving the release to `active`.

Neither basis authorizes redistribution of the original source files or the downloadable catalog
database. A SQLite projection can be generated for local qualification only; its manifest reports
`publicationAllowed: false` and `distribution: "local_qualification_only"`.