This data category requires all city laws and statutes to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| In an open format | Only PDF is available. | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | Yes | There is no license declaration in the website. Regarding the definition of copyright content stated by the Law 9.610/1998 in Article 7, XIII, a dataset will be copyrightable only if its organization involves an intellectual creation. In this case, data is primary or factual, so we can assume that it is open or public. |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | You type "Rio de Janeiro" and "Legislação", portuguese for "Legislation" and then click at the first link. | |
| licence_url | https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9610.htm | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | There is not a way to download information in a structured format, but there is a basic search engine where you can build queries to get the legislation you are interested in. |
| collector_name | Municipal Administrative Secretary - Secretaria Municipal de Administração do do Rio de Janeiro | |
| characteristics | Content of the law / status, Date of last amendment, Amendments to the law (if applicable) | |
| location | https://smaonline.rio.rj.gov.br/conlegis/ConLegislacao.a - Rio de Janeiro Municipal Administrative Secretary, https://www.camara.rj.gov.br/ - Rio de Janeiro City Council | The former presents all current legislation from Rio de Janeiro. The second presents all the propositions that have been processed in city council since 1977 (including draft legislation and non approved propositions). We will consider the first dataset to answer the following questions. |