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 | There is an API available if you want to get all the dataset. |
| In an open format | HTML, JSON | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| findable | 4 | A quick search in google will present the right website where the information is. Once in the website, it is easy to find the desired information. |
| findable_steps | You type “legislação municipal são paulo" - portuguese for "municipal legislation sp" and the first option is the city hall web site and the second option is the city council website, both of them present the municipal legislation. At the city hall website, you click in “Leis”, portuguese for “Law” in the main menu. At the city council website you chick in "Legislação", portuguese for "Legislation" in the homepage's menu. | |
| licence_url | https://www.camara.sp.gov.br/transparencia/dados-abertos | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 3 | The search mechanism works well. So you can easily get all information about a specific law and analyse it. |
| collector_name | São Paulo City council | Câmara dos Vereadores de São Paulo |
| characteristics | Content of the law / status, Date of last amendment, Amendments to the law (if applicable) | You can search the legislation by type of norm, number, year, author or keywords. As result we will have all this information related to the norm. |
| location | https://www.camara.sp.gov.br/atividade-legislativa/spleg - São Paulo City Council |
Reviewed. Everything ok