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All ten countries have now been through both probes, and the continent has twenty-one schemes published across seventeen cities rather than one. Brazil alone accounts for seventeen of them, in thirteen cities.
Porto Velho, the seventeenth, is the first Brazilian scheme in the corpus found entirely in the legislature's SAPL register rather than in a municipal gazette — the executive side of that município is unreachable at connect on every host — and the first anywhere whose currency claim is watched as a structured relation count rather than read once from a page (D-094).
Brazil is the newest and the largest, and it arrived as three records in two days from two cities: São Paulo's Rodízio Municipal, published on 13 September 2026 from CET's own pages and the decree PDFs CET hosts, after three cycles had failed to find a searchable catalogue and this one stopped needing to (D-064); and the city's Zona de Máxima Restrição de Circulação, the lorry ban that covers most of the centre for sixteen hours of every working day, published the same day from the same channel (D-065).
Two schemes in one city is the point rather than a coincidence — a lorry driver in São Paulo is inside both, on different clocks and over different areas, and each record says so about the other. Chile came first — Santiago's restricción vehicular, from the SEREMI's signed resolution.
Argentina and Uruguay came next and are a different animal: both restrict by vehicle weight rather than by plate, both write the rule into a consolidated legal code rather than an annual resolution, and both were found in the legislature's own register after the city's public website turned out to carry nothing current about either.
What keeps the continent open is four things and none of them is a fact about the roads. Colombia's Pico y Placa is unmistakably in force and the register that holds the decree answers zero for every term including a control word.
Bolivia is the same shape one step further on: La Paz plainly runs an Área de Restricción Vehicular by plate number — it publishes the permit procedure for entering one — and the only instrument it puts out is an eight-page scan with no text in it.
Ecuador joined that shape on 12 September 2026 and is now the most precisely bounded of the three gaps: Quito's Secretaría de Movilidad names the Pico y Placa instructivo and its 2023 amendment inside a 2,812-row register of its own resolutions, and publishes the text of all three on a member of staff's personal OneDrive, which answers HTTP 403 — while the two hosts that hold the rule, the enforcing agency and the consolidated Código Municipal, both accept the TCP connection and then abort the TLS handshake after our Client Hello.
Peru is still not bounded at all, and its hosts are among the ten that accept the TCP connection and then abort the handshake (B-038). Brazil has left that list, and now has five published cities behind it and a sixth read and rejected.
São Paulo is published twice over; Rio de Janeiro was read on 13 September 2026 and produced the cleanest negative in the continent — not a channel that would not answer but a rule its own author switched off.
Rio built a lorry restriction in December 2018, ran it for fifteen months, suspended it "por prazo indeterminado" in March 2020 and has never taken the suspension back, which the city gazette's own search API lets us measure rather than assert. That is the sixth rejection reason in this corpus and the first that is nobody's fault.
Belo Horizonte followed on the same day and became the continent's sixth published scheme: BHTRANS keeps goods vehicles over 5.5 tonnes of load capacity or 6.50 m long out of the central districts through the working day, keeps articulated units out of them entirely, and says on a page ten days old that it enforces both with electronic detectors — read out of a gazette API found the same way Rio's was, and the first Brazilian instruments that arrive as text rather than as scans.
Curitiba followed on the same day and brought two schemes at once, taking the continent to eight: a closed central perimeter shut to vehicles over 7 tonnes or 7 metres through the working day under a 1997 decree, and a 10-tonne ban on the BR 476 expressway at the two weekday peaks under a 2022 portaria.
It is also the first city in the corpus where the publisher answers the currency question mechanically rather than by implication — Curitiba's own act database carries a status column, and it reads "Em Vigor" for both instruments while reading "Revogada" for the two portarias they replaced.
Porto Alegre followed on the same day and took the continent to nine, and it is the first scheme in this corpus with no instrument behind it at all.
EPTC bars vehicles over 10 tonnes gross and/or over seven metres from the Centro Histórico 07:00–19:00 on weekdays and 07:00–14:00 on Saturday, bars anything over 15 tonnes at every hour, and names the seven roads that stay open — and there is no decree or portaria to read, which is measured rather than shrugged at: the municipality's own SAPL legislation database returns 0 for a control word against 70 for "trânsito", 408 for "EPTC" and 0 for "toneladas", and the DOPA gazette's title index returns 63 hits for "caminhões" across 2020-2026, all of them procurement.
The city explains the absence itself: a 1994 opinion of its own law office says the municipality limits heavy traffic "mediante aposição de placas indicativas". The rule is the signage — and that turned the sign register into the channel, a fourth shape after the gazette API, the act database and the static index.
EPTC publishes every road sign in the city as open data under CC BY, 115,673 records with coordinates, and 16 of the 50 R-9 lorry-prohibition signs carry this scheme's legend with the same two timetables the service page states, 11 of them installed on one day in March 2011. Two of the 16 disagree with the published rule and the record says so.
Salvador followed on the same day and took the continent to ten, and it is the first scheme here whose instrument is not absent but unaskable.
Transalvador bars lorries over 6.5 m long and 2.2 m wide, and tractors, from a named ring of central avenues, the whole seafront contour and nineteen further roads — 06:00–10:00 Monday to Saturday, 17:00–20:00 Monday to Friday, and 09:00–20:00 on the seafront on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays — with urban delivery vehicles exempt by name and a permit for construction firms.
It cites no decree on any of its four channels. Porto Alegre's absence was closed by the publisher; Salvador's is open, because the channel that would settle it cannot be asked: the city gazette publishes every edition as a PDF and indexes only the edition titles, so its own search returns 0 for "portaria" while we hold a PDF from that gazette headed "PORTARIA N.º 416/2015".
A zero from an index blind to its own contents is not a negative, and the record says so instead of claiming there is no law.
What is measurable is that the rule is current and enforced: two independently maintained publisher channels carry identical thresholds, hours and road lists; Transalvador announced both of its suspensions, in 2018 and 2020, and announced both resumptions, with no later suspension in its news index against a zero control; and it cited 3,640 drivers in 2019.
It also prices the breach itself — infração média, R$ 130,16, four licence points — which is São Paulo's bridge rather than our arithmetic.
The geometry negative is the strongest in Brazil so far: unlike Porto Alegre's ArcGIS server, Salvador's lists its whole directory without a token, 2,715 layers across 25 folders with nothing refused, and not one is a restricted area; the mobility secretariat's entire contribution is a traffic-camera layer.
Fortaleza was tried on 13 September 2026 and did not become a record: the scheme is real and its instrument is named — Portaria nº 83/2015 of the AMC — but the publisher has never stated the hours, delegating them to the signs, its last word on the restriction is a March 2020 suspension, and the gazette that would settle both sits behind bot protection (D-085, B-045).
Recife followed on the same day and took the continent to eleven, and it is the first scheme in this corpus that is a lane rather than an area: the CTTU's Faixa Azul, reserved for buses and município-registered taxis on twelve mapped corridors from Monday to Friday 06:00-22:00, priced by the publisher itself at R$ 243,47 and seven licence points under article 184 of the federal code.
It has no instrument, and it did not need one — the authority's own 2025 fine register carries 18,442 citations under the scheme's own name, which is the strongest currency evidence the corpus holds.
Recife also settled the question it was opened for, in the negative and with denominators: there is no lorry ban, no emission zone and no restricted area, measured across the CTTU's site search, a municipal gazette that does index its own PDFs, 222 open datasets and 47 catalogued mobility services, with the 2013 start of the gazette archive and a 403 from the private host the city delegates its legislation to stated as the limits.
A second real restriction there — the Praça do Derby carriageway, buses and BRT only since March 2020, 7,526 article-187 citations in 2025 — was read and not published, because its terms survive only in two press releases and the enforcement contradicts them (D-087).
Manaus followed on the same day and is the thirteenth scheme published on this continent — thirteenth rather than twelfth because the running total in this paragraph had quietly lost one: Salvador contributed two records, not one, and the count stated at Recife was a scheme short.
The IMMU keeps vehicles over 8 tonnes gross off the main central avenues at both weekday peaks and vehicles over 16 tonnes off them from 09:00 to 17:00 as well, which shuts the largest lorries out continuously from 06:00 to 20:00, and it prices the breach itself — a grave infraction, R$ 195,23, five licence points and retention of the vehicle.
Manaus has no instrument, like Porto Alegre and Recife before it, and unlike them it has no open data either: the city publishes no resolvable open-data host under any of four names, delegates its consolidated legislation to a private site that answers HTTP 403, and its gazette returns zero bytes to both of our clients.
What holds the record up instead is the authority restating the same two thresholds and the same two timetables word for word in March 2024, January 2025 and March 2026, counting its own enforcement while it does — 202 citations in 2023, 554 in 2024, 24 lorries in one morning in March 2026 — and opening a July 2026 consultation paper by asserting that the zone is already in force.
That prose ledger is the weaker cousin of the fine register that settled Recife: it cannot be counted against a control word, but it answers the same question, which is whether anyone is actually stopped.
The record also carries the corpus's frankest area limitation, because the publisher's own is frank: the IMMU names five avenues and then writes "e mais dez vias na área central da cidade" without ever naming the ten, so two thirds of the zone is roads the authority declares and does not identify.
No polygon was drawn around the five we can place, because that would imply the other ten are outside it; the record tells a driver to assume they are inside the zone anywhere in central Manaus instead. Belém was tried on 14 September 2026 and produced no record, for a reason no amount of work would have changed: the city's executive is unreachable.
Its three traffic hosts all resolve to one address, accept the TCP connection, abort the TLS handshake, and return zero bytes to a second, independent client as well — while the Pará state portal, the state gazette and Belém's own city council all answer HTTP 200 from the same egress in the same minute, which is the first time this corpus has been able to separate a host refusing us from our own network refusing a host.
What the council's index does hold is bills rather than rules: a 2022 one letting taxis into the BRT corridors proves a BRT restriction exists, and nobody who publishes its hours, its corridors or its price will talk to us.
Goiânia followed on the same day and took the continent to fifteen with two records at once, from a channel new to this corpus: the city's news index answers zero for the scheme's own name against a zero control, and the rule lives in the Diário Oficial, which Goiânia indexes itself in a Solr instance that reads the text inside its PDFs rather than only their titles — 33,228 documents, a control word returning nothing, and the whole chain of instruments recoverable by phrase.
The Zona de Restrição de Tráfego I shuts a bounded central perimeter, described by the fourteen roads that edge it, to lorries over 8.30 tonnes gross or over 8.0 metres long from 07:00 to 19:00 on weekdays; the second rule bars car-transporter combinations over 14 metres from the entire urban perimeter at three windows of every weekday, highways excepted, which is a different area, a different vehicle and a different clock, so it is a second record that names the first.
Neither is priced: article 8 sends a breach to article 187 of the federal code and states no sum, which is the ordinary case rather than the São Paulo exception.
What settles that both still bind is unlike anything else here — the mayor of Goiânia vetoed a bill in July 2025 for disregarding "a Lei nº 9.028, de 2011, e as Portarias nº 224, de 2011, nº 70, de 2013, e nº 21, de 2015", naming this exact chain, in the present tense, as the rules that govern heavy traffic and its hours and routes.
No polygon was drawn from the fourteen boundary roads, because Goiânia numbers its streets and seven of the thirteen distinct names collide with roads in other sectors — "Rua 10" alone matches 109 ways spanning 28 km — so a perimeter closed through the wrong one would be a confident map of somewhere else.
Campinas followed on 14 September 2026 and took the continent to sixteen, out of a channel that is new here for a reason none of the others were: the city's public website is an Angular shell that serves the same 63 KB of markup for every route and contains not one word of any rule, and everything readable sits behind the headless Drupal the shell calls — a 590-entry service catalogue, a news archive whose search API reports totals and answers 0 to a control word, and an open JSON:API.
EMDEC bars goods vehicles over 6.3 metres long from the Anel de Integração Engenheiro Rebouças, the orbital road round the central districts, from 06:00 to 20:00 Monday to Friday and from 06:00 to 14:00 on Saturday, and prices the breach itself at R$ 130,16 and four licence points.
The threshold is the point: 6.3 metres is the length of the Veículo Urbano de Carga the municipality itself defines, so this scheme begins exactly where the delivery van ends.
What settles that it binds is the enforcement — two existing speed and red-light cameras became lorry detectors on 18 August 2025, checking each plate against the permit database rather than the vehicle register, and the authority published the count five months later: 357 citations between August and December 2025 and 206 more in January 2026. The instrument itself could not be read by anyone.
Resolução nº 079/2017 and its 2019 amendment live in a municipal legal library, a transparency portal, a gazette full-text search and a geospatial catalogue that between them accept no TCP connection from us at all, while two other municipal hosts answer in under a second in the same 37-second run — and the traffic authority's own website answers "Attack blocked by web application protection", which is the second Brazilian city after Fortaleza to put the channel that would settle a scheme behind bot protection.
A second Campinas rule is real and is withheld: vehicles over 14 metres are barred from the whole area inside the city's ring of federal highways and from the Distrito de Nova Aparecida, the service catalogue confirms both in 2026, and the only statement of its hours and its boundary is the municipality's 2011 announcement of the resolution that the one in force replaced.
Natal followed on 14 September 2026 and took the continent to seventeen, and it is the first Brazilian scheme in this corpus that is a set of named streets rather than an area or a lane: heavy vehicles and lorries over 5 tonnes may not drive, stop or park on five central avenues — Senador Salgado Filho with its continuation Hermes da Fonseca, Prudente de Morais, Bernardo Vieira, Coronel Estevam and Rio Branco — from 05:00 to 20:00 on weekdays, which is the longest weekday closure and the earliest start in the corpus.
It is also the first record here built on a legislature's SAPL register, an eleventh channel shape: the Câmara Municipal serves 9,338 municipal norms over an open REST API that answers 0 to a control word, filters on the summary text, and exposes an empty end-of-validity field — and that register is what proves nothing has repealed the scheme, because it demonstrably indexes repeals (44 norms containing "revoga", 6 containing "suspende") and none of the 50 names either instrument.
The city's own gazette supplied the rest, through a full-text content search reaching back to 2003 that reads inside the PDFs rather than only their titles.
What that search turned up is a rule the city cannot keep straight with itself, and the record encodes the stricter reading and says so: Lei Promulgada nº 0256/2008 created the scheme at 5 tonnes and 05:00–20:00 but named no street; Decreto nº 10.670/2015 named the five avenues at 5 tonnes; then Lei Ordinária nº 6.619/2016 amended the law to 8 tonnes at two peaks and ordered the streets redefined by decree within 120 days — and the gazette's index returns "tráfego intenso" in seven issues across twenty-three years, none of them between that amendment and today, so the redefining decree was never published and the 2016 law names no road it could bite on.
In June 2022 the mayor's Plano Municipal de Mobilidade Urbana listed the 2008 law and the 2015 decree together as rules to be enforced and extended, which is the Goiânia currency shape rather than an enforcement count. Nothing is priced: the decree defers to "the corresponding penalty" in a federal code it mis-numbers, and the parent law has no penalty article at all.
Two further absences are measured rather than assumed — the special authorisation that every exempt operator must carry was ordered by decree in 2015 and never published, its name appearing in the gazette index only in the two issues carrying the decree itself; and the city's executive is mostly unreachable, with www, portal and the open-data host all accepting no connection while the transparency portal and the www2 host that actually serves the gazette answer in the same run.
São Luís was the intended target that day and produced no record at all, for a reason new to this corpus and beyond any amount of work: the whole ma.gov.br zone returns SERVFAIL from the .br authoritative nameservers, in the same run in which seven sibling state zones return their delegations, and saoluis.ma.leg.br does the same at the leg.br authoritative servers while Natal's and Recife's council hosts resolve normally.
There is no Maranhão host to try, and the SIGPub gazette platform that serves twenty other states redirects its Maranhão path to its own front page. Campo Grande followed on 14 September 2026 and is the newest rule in the whole corpus rather than merely the newest record: Decreto n. 16.664 was signed on 17 June 2026, published in DIOGRANDE n.
8.374 on 1 July, took effect the same day and revoked the 2010 decree behind it — seventy-five days old when it was read. It is the first two-ring scheme here.
An Área de Restrição bounded by eight named roads and an Área de Restrição Máxima bounded by four, sharing a segment of Avenida Presidente Ernesto Geisel, with six timetables between them split by area and by vehicle class, from a Caminhão Simples losing two hours a day in the outer ring to an articulated vehicle losing fifteen in the inner one; everything at or under 3,500 kg and every Veículo Urbano de Carga within 2.20 m by 7.20 m stays outside all of it, and one stretch of Rua 14 de Julho is closed to anything over 3,500 kg at every hour of every day including the Sundays and holidays the rest of the scheme frees.
It is also the first record where "is it in force?" and "when does it start costing money?" have different answers, and the record says both: Art. 12 commences the decree on publication, while AGETRAN's own page says an educational period precedes enforcement and gives it no end date, and Art. 9º calls the measures experimental.
The thirteenth channel shape arrived with it and fixes the defect the twelfth had — Natal's gazette indexed its own content but accepted POST only, and Campo Grande's does the same work over GET and returns JSON, so it can be watched.
It echoes its own SQL, which shows it filtering on the extracted text of each edition rather than on titles; it answers 0 to a control word, 4,304 editions to "CAMINH" and 5,733 to "REVOGA" with the newest three days old, and exactly one edition to "RESTRIÇÃO MÁXIMA" — the decree's own publication.
The proof that nothing has repealed it is the decree it replaced: "11.178" last appears in the very edition that revoked it, which is the signature a dead instrument leaves in this index, and "16.664" shows nothing of the kind.
That index also taught the sharpest methodological lesson of the cycle, because its stored text breaks phrases across line ends: "VEÍCULOS" returns 1,702 editions and "DE CARGA" 1,451 while "VEÍCULOS DE CARGA" returns zero, and the decree's own title contains that phrase — so a negative from it is worth something only for a single token.
Nothing is priced, and no polygon was drawn: AGETRAN publishes a map, but as a picture, and three different Campo Grande roads are called "Fernando Corrêa da Costa" while the inner ring has only four sides.
The city very nearly did not get read at all, for a reason worth recording — its own homepage returned HTTP 504 twice, at 50.7 and 51.4 seconds, with a control host answering 200 in the same run, and a second tool fetched the full 283 KB page from the same URL moments later.
A slow origin timing out at its own edge looks exactly like a dead host, and the control-host recipe calibrates the host rather than the patience. Cuiabá followed on 14 September 2026 and took the continent to nineteen, and it is the mirror image of Campo Grande in every way that matters: the newest rule in the corpus was seventy-five days old, and this is the oldest still in force, fifteen years.
Lei nº 5.463 of 27 September 2011 sorts lorries by gross weight across three areas — the Zona da Área Central, the Zona de Restrição Máxima inside it, and corridors 1, 2 and 3 with the rest of the urban area — writing every rule as the hours in which movement is permitted rather than barred.
A 16-to-24-tonne vehicle keeps three windows a day in the ZAC, is down to 20:00–06:00 in the ZRM, and is free on the corridors; anything above 24 tonnes is confined to 20:00–06:00 in the ZAC and banned outright from the ZRM "em qualquer dia e horário", while nine named roads and areas stay open to everything at every hour. Handcarts are in it too, restricted to the same night window.
The fourteenth channel shape arrived with it and it is the richest so far: the gazette site is an 1,150-byte Vue shell containing no words, and its bundle names an Elasticsearch-backed full-text index that reads inside the PDFs, returns page-level hits with highlights, reaches back to 1967 and is current to within three days.
Unlike Campo Grande's it accepts POST only, so it cannot be watched; unlike Campo Grande's it does real phrase matching rather than SQL ilike, which is the correction to the lesson Campo Grande taught — a multi-word negative is worthless in an ilike index and perfectly good in this one, and the index has to be asked which it is. It also taught a new trap with no precedent here: one host, three publishers.
The index mixes the municipal gazette with the Mato Grosso state gazette and the state audit court's, and the audit court's is 481,075 pages against the municipality's 178,045 — so the first four lorry searches returned hits that were all, every one of them, somebody else's gazette.
The fix came out of the bundle rather than out of guesswork, a filter_edition_names facet, and the rule it leaves behind is the mirror of an old one: a proven index's zero is not a negative if the index is for something else, and a proven index's hit is not a positive if it is about someone else.
What settles that the law still binds is two acts of its own enforcing authority, thirteen years apart and pulling in opposite directions.
In February 2013 the traffic secretary designated motorcycle agents "Considerando a necessidade de monitoramento e fiscalização permanente" of exactly this restriction, naming the law and the decree — and that issue is the last in which the words "Zona de Restrição Máxima" appear at all.
In August 2024 the Secretária Municipal de Mobilidade Urbana set up a commission to analyse the law and draft an amendment, "CONSIDERANDO a necessidade de atualização", with sixty days to report. Nobody amends a repealed law; nobody asks to update one they are happy with.
Nothing has replaced it since, and that is measured rather than assumed — the index returns 308 editions containing "revoga" in that window with the newest three days old, and zero containing "Peso Bruto Total" or "PBT" against twenty across the whole run.
The law also leaves a hole it never fills, and the record says so rather than smoothing it: all three area articles jump from "até 10 (dez) toneladas" to "de 16 (dezesseis) toneladas", and nothing between 10 and 16 tonnes is classified anywhere.
The source is a noisy OCR scan, which is precisely why the gap is certain — Brazilian drafting prints every number as a digit and as a word, and the spelled-out numerals agree across all three articles.
Nothing is priced: the circulation offence defers to the federal code without naming an article, and the one printed figure, R$ 50,00 per tonne for loading out of hours, is a 2011 base the same article orders re-indexed to inflation every January with no updated table ever published. And no polygon was drawn, in the starkest geometry negative the corpus holds.
Where Campo Grande's perimeter names all existed and merely collided, four of Cuiabá's twenty do not exist in OpenStreetMap at all — Presidente Marques, João Gomes Sobrinho, the Travessa Tufik Affi and any road spelled Felinto Müller — while Fernando Corrêa returns 66 ways under four names out to 68 km and Mato Grosso 57 under nine out to 74 km. A ring cannot be closed with four sides missing.
The two areas most drivers fall under are not drawn by the instrument at all: the ZAC is delegated to the city's land-use law and corridors 1, 2 and 3 are never described anywhere. Porto Velho followed on 14 September 2026, and it is the first Brazilian record in this corpus read entirely out of a legislature rather than a municipal gazette.
Its executive is unreachable and still is: www.portovelho.ro.gov.br, portovelho.ro.gov.br, semtran.portovelho.ro.gov.br and transparencia.portovelho.ro.gov.br all accept no connection, re-measured the same day, and neither a camara nor a diariooficial host under the municipal domain resolves at all.
What answers is sapl.portovelho.ro.leg.br, the same open SAPL REST API that settled Natal, holding 29,346 municipal norms with qqzzxxw returning 0 against 19 for carga, 31 for caminh, 407 for revoga and 215 for transito.
The rule is Lei no 2.785, de 08 de janeiro de 2021, regulated by Decreto no 17.567, de 26 de agosto de 2021: the Zona Urbana de Restricao is the whole urban area minus seven named through-routes, vehicles up to 10 tonnes gross run at any hour, 16 to 24 tonnes only 20:00-06:00 with Saturdays from 14:00, and anything above 24 tonnes is barred outright in any day and any hour.
It leaves the same unclassified 10-to-16-tonne band Cuiaba does, but the decree puts its permit threshold at 10 tonnes rather than 16, so the two instruments disagree and both halves are recorded. Nothing is priced: the fines are stated in UPF, the municipal tax unit, and the last act in that register setting a UPF value is from 1989. Three lessons came out of it that the next cycle should not have to rediscover.
The first is that the search term decides the search: caminh returned 31 norms and not one of them was this rule, while carga returned 19 and the law and its decree were the top two. The second is that a substring index is not a search engine - ementa__icontains matched AET inside the surname CAETANO sixteen times out of seventeen hits, so a short acronym is noise rather than a query.
The third is the one worth carrying furthest: SAPL keeps a structured relation graph, 4,738 relations over 49 declared types, including 977 full repeals and 140 Regulamenta links, and it is maintained to the present - a repeal by a law of 28 August 2026 is already in it. That makes the currency question answerable as a count rather than as a reading, and this record is the first in the corpus to watch it as one.
The same graph is what proves Porto Velho's OTHER lorry law never commenced: Lei no 2.255, de 06 de outubro de 2015 bars vehicles over 5 tonnes from eight named avenues on weekdays, its own Art. 8 makes it conditional on an Executive decree, and no such decree exists in a register that records 140 of them for other laws. It has never been repealed either, so it is reported rather than resolved.
Boa Vista and Rio Branco are named next, and named the way cycle 56 learned to name cities - by probing rather than by ranking a list, and this time the probe was the channel itself.
SAPL is an Interlegis platform with a predictable host shape, so fourteen candidate councils were asked for it in one run: eleven do not resolve at all, Palmas resolves but holds 12 norms, and two answer with usable registers. sapl.boavista.rr.leg.br holds 5,855 norms, qqzzxxw returns 0 against 62 for revoga, and it already names the instrument - Lei Ordinaria no 2.640, de 15 de agosto de 2024, RESTRICAO PARA CIRCULACAO DE CAMINHOES E OPERACOES DE CARGA E DESCARGA EM EIXOS COMERCIAIS E DE SERVICOS, norm id 4499, published in DOM 6168, with its 2019 predecessor Lei no 2.053 at norm id 3281. sapl.riobranco.ac.leg.br holds 3,323 norms with the same clean control and carries Lei Ordinaria-CMRB no 1.101, de 17 de agosto de 1993 at norm id 1409, setting loading and unloading hours for the commercial centre.
Neither has been read. Everywhere else in Brazil is still unlooked-at. Brasília and the Distrito Federal's transport and licensing hosts, Guarulhos, Teresina and Florianópolis all accepted no connection, and Maceió and João Pessoa answered HTTP 403.
Venezuela cannot be reached over a certificate we can verify. Paraguay is the one clean negative: 22,904 pages of Asunción's own inventory hold exactly one match, and it is a restriction still under analysis. Cycle 60 added no record and closed two candidates instead, both in Brazil and both for reasons worth keeping.
Boa Vista is withheld: a lorry law in force since August 2024, unrepealed against a maintained relation graph, whose operative text states no hours and no prohibition at all — and whose absence the city confirms itself, because the 2025 Plano de Mobilidade Urbana still lists regulating loading hours as an action to be carried out.
Rio Branco is unreadable: its only instrument is a 1993 scan with no text layer, in a register whose relation graph holds 32 edges across 3,323 norms and so cannot answer whether it survives.
The cycle's transferable lesson is about the SAPL recipe itself — before reading a silence in a legislature's relation graph, ask which norm types that register holds, because Boa Vista's holds no executive decree and Porto Velho's did.
Cycle 61 left Brazil alone and took the continent's twenty-first scheme in Argentina instead: Córdoba's Zona A, where only two classes of goods vehicle may circulate and everything above 17,000 kg is barred by not being listed.
It is the first record here whose rule is written as a permission rather than a prohibition, the first whose window moves with the season, and the first found through a publisher's own controlled vocabulary — the Digesto Municipal's voz especial index, which is exact where its free-text subject field is not.
What still keeps the continent open is unchanged and is not a fact about the roads: Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador each plainly run a restriction we can name and cannot read, and Brazil holds two more.
Checked against the publisher's own listing of everything it holds — 86,358 pages from Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 454 datasets from Buenos Aires Data (city open data portal).
Buenos Aires bans heavy goods vehicles from the whole city and it is now published here. The finding turned on asking the right publisher: the city portal declares no sitemap, but the conventional one answers with 15 sitemaps holding 86,358 pages, and every single match for restriction vocabulary sits under /gcaba_historico — the archive. The live site says nothing current about the rule at all.
The Boletín Oficial does.
Ley 6764/24 publishes the Digesto Jurídico, whose Anexo I for the transport and traffic branch is a 612-page consolidated text of the norms in force, and chapter 9.10 of the Código de Tránsito y Transporte is in it: trucks and trailers of 12 tonnes or more individually, loaded or not, are barred from every artery in the city except the 95 named sections of the Red de Tránsito Pesado, with a second and narrower network for bitrén combinations.
The Secretaría Legal y Técnica's Digesto search confirms the code itself is Vigente, and its own limit is worth recording: it is consolidated to 28 February 2018, so Ley 5990 of July 2018 — the law that inserted chapter 9.10 — returns zero when searched there by number. The register that says what is in force and the register that holds the current text are not the same register here.
Córdoba joined it on 14 September 2026 and is a different animal again: the city's Digesto Municipal is a searchable register with a CONTROLLED VOCABULARY, exposed as three ASP.NET PageMethods on its own search page, and it was the vocabulary rather than free-text search that found the scheme — the voz especial "Carga" returns 8 documents and its newest is the operative decree, while the free-text subject field answers "carga" with eight pages of "Encarga la Secretaría…".
Zona A admits only two classes of goods vehicle, so the ban on everything above 17,000 kg is carried by the decree's silence rather than by a sentence, and the same register answered the question D-095 said to ask first: it holds DECRETOS and ORDENANZAS alike, 12 document types in one call, so its silence about a repeal is a silence that could have spoken.
Looked at and not counted as a scheme:
Read on the authority's own pages, which is as far as what they link goes. We still cannot read https://montevideo.gub.uy/sitemap.xml (HTTP 404, and robots.txt declares no sitemap — the city portal offers no inventory to count, though the legal register does the work instead); https://geoweb.montevideo.gub.uy/geoserver/ows?service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=GetCapabilities (connection closed by the other side (UND_ERR_SOCKET), so the freight zones are reachable only as a zipped shapefile), so treat this as unfinished rather than clear — we do not work around a block.
Montevideo restricts goods vehicles by weight across the whole department, and it is now published here.
The city portal is no help — montevideo.gub.uy declares no sitemap and answers HTTP 404 for the conventional one — but the Intendencia runs a separate consolidated register, normativa.montevideo.gub.uy, and it is the best-structured legal channel we have found on this continent: the Digesto Departamental in fifteen volumes, article by article, in HTML, each article listing the resolutions it came from.
Volume V is Tránsito y Transporte, and its chapter VI is a full weight-and-zone regime — three zones across the department, a 9-tonne weekday ban in a named central subzone, preferred freight routes, permits, and a sanctions article that deliberately delegates the amount elsewhere. Every fact in the record is watched on that register rather than on a PDF.
The Intendencia also publishes the zone polygons openly, which we could not use: the only download offered is a zipped shapefile and our pipeline reads GeoJSON.
Checked against the publisher's own listing of everything it holds — 22,904 pages from Municipalidad de Asunción.
No access restriction is in force in Asunción, and this is the cleanest negative on the continent. The municipality declares an inventory of 22,904 pages and exactly one of them matches the vocabulary of a restriction scheme — a February 2026 briefing which says, in the city's own words, that the delimitation of areas for buses and heavy vehicles in the historic centre "se encuentra en análisis".
The Ordenanza Municipal N.º 267/2009 it cites delimits the protected historic zone, not a traffic rule. Nothing else in 22,904 pages proposes, announces or enforces one.
Looked at and not counted as a scheme:
Checked against the publisher's own listing of everything it holds — 5,745 pages from Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de La Paz. We still cannot read https://www.gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo/ (TCP reports open in 35 ms, then the connection is reset after about eleven seconds without a ServerHello (ECONNRESET).
What that does NOT establish, corrected 2026-09-13 (D-078): a control connection to 192.0.2.1 — an RFC 5737 documentation address where no host can exist — opens from here the same way, in 32 ms, as does every real host regardless of distance. Our own egress accepts the connection, so the TCP result carries no information about the gazette's host.
We have no measurement of it; the next move is a probe from a different network.); https://wsservicios.lapaz.bo/normativa_externa/ConsultaExterna.aspx (TCP connects in 32 ms and the TLS handshake is then reset at twelve seconds without a ServerHello (ECONNRESET) — a reset rather than the timeout we recorded before.
The same host answers HTTP 200 over plain http, so the municipal legal register is reachable but not over a connection we will cite.), so treat this as unfinished rather than clear — we do not work around a block.
La Paz plainly runs a plate-number restriction and we cannot read a single one of its terms. The municipality's inventory holds 5,745 pages, 64 of which are about restricción vehicular, and among them is a live service page for an "Permiso excepcional para ingreso al Área de Restricción Vehicular" — a permit does not exist for an area that does not.
That page names the exemptions for diplomatic plates and names the instrument as the Reglamento Municipal de Paradas Momentáneas, Estacionamientos y Restricciones de Tránsito, without a number, a date or a link.
The one instrument the city does publish for this is a Resolución Administrativa de Área de Restricción Vehicular, and it is an eight-page scanned PDF from which no text can be extracted at all — the same problem as Mexico City's calendar JPEGs, and we do not OCR an image and call it a citation.
The municipal legal register exists and answers, but only over plain HTTP with no TLS, and its search is an ASP.NET postback. Both that register and the Gaceta Oficial de Bolivia were re-measured layer by layer on 12 September 2026: neither times out on TCP connect, as this entry said before.
Both accept the connection in about 33 ms and are then reset ten to twelve seconds later, before any ServerHello — the same shape as eight other government hosts we had labelled the same wrong way.
Found in force here, and not yet recordable:
We still cannot read https://www.caracas.gob.ve/ (The TLS handshake completes — TCP in 32 ms, TLSv1.2 in 650 ms, CN=www.caracas.gob.ve issued by "YE1" and valid to 19 November 2026 — and the chain cannot be verified: UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE. So this host is reachable and we decline to cite it, which is a different thing from the ten hosts that never finish a handshake at all (see D-062).
We do not turn certificate verification off.); https://www.tsj.gob.ve/gaceta-oficial (TLS error DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT); https://www.inttt.gob.ve/ (no DNS record (Instituto Nacional de Transporte Terrestre)), so treat this as unfinished rather than clear — we do not work around a block.
Nothing was established. Every channel that could carry a Caracas traffic rule fails before any content is served: the city's own site presents a certificate we cannot verify, the Tribunal Supremo's Gaceta Oficial section presents a self-signed one, the national transit institute has no DNS record, and the Imprenta Nacional answers only over plain HTTP.
We do not disable certificate verification to get at a page, so Venezuela is recorded as unread rather than as clear.
Checked against the publisher's own listing of everything it holds — 7,138 pages from Ministerio de Transportes y Telecomunicaciones.
Chile runs a restricción vehicular over Santiago and it is now published here. Two channels settled it and both are the publisher's own.
The Ministerio de Transportes declares one sitemap holding 7,138 pages; searching it for the vocabulary of a restriction returns 142 matches, and among them is the ministry's page for this season and the signed resolution behind it — Resolución Exenta N° 1698/2026 SRM-RM of 29 April 2026, which prohibits circulation by plate digit from 1 May to 31 August 2026.
The Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional's Ley Chile serves the consolidated text of any norm as XML without a key, which is where the fine comes from: article 200 number 35 of DFL N° 1 of 2007 makes driving in an urban area under pollution restrictions a grave infraction, and article 204 puts that at 1 to 1.5 UTM.
Ley Chile's own search is a JavaScript application and its documented v1 API requires a key we do not have, so norms are reachable by id and not by phrase; that limits how we find things there, not what the record says. Note for the next cycle: the resolution has expired.
The air-quality plan leaves the dates to the regional secretary, so nothing is restricted in Santiago today and the 2027 resolution had not appeared when we read this.
Checked against the publisher's own listing of everything it holds — 110,798 pages from Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá. We still cannot read https://www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co/sisjur/consulta_avanzada.jsp (HTTP 200, but the advanced search reports 0 documents for every term including a control word — the register serves us its form, not its index); https://www.funcionpublica.gov.co/eva/gestornormativo/ (TLS error UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE); https://www.suin-juriscol.gov.co/ (TLS error UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE); https://www.movilidadbogota.gov.co/ (connection closed by the other side (UND_ERR_SOCKET)), so treat this as unfinished rather than clear — we do not work around a block.
Pico y Placa is in force in Bogotá and there is no doubt about it: the city's own portal declares 56 sitemaps holding 110,798 pages, 2,396 of which are about pico y placa, and it publishes the restricted digits for each individual day — including today. What we do not have is the instrument.
The Régimen Legal de Bogotá, the Secretaría Jurídica Distrital's consolidated register and the closest analogue we have found to Costa Rica's SINALEVI, answers HTTP 200 and returns "Número de documentos Encontrados: 0" for every search we ran, including a control word that must exist in a Bogotá legal register.
That is not a clean negative, it is a search that is not working for us, and the two national systems that could stand in for it — the Función Pública gestor normativo and SUIN-Juriscol — both fail TLS certificate verification from here, as does the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad's own site.
So the daily digits are published and the decree that sets them is not reachable, which is the wrong way round for a record that has to cite and re-check a dated instrument. Retried once on 10 September 2026, search term and control word alike: still zero.
Found in force here, and not yet recordable:
Read on the authority's own pages, which is as far as what they link goes.
Brazil is published, and it was opened by dropping the search for an inventory. Three cycles looked for a catalogue that would let us find the rodízio's legislation by phrase, and all three failed — the Catálogo de Legislação Municipal still answers every search with its own home page, the city portal's sitemap is still an index of indexes reaching zero URLs, and CET declares no sitemap at all.
None of that mattered in the end, because the operator publishes the rule and the legislation behind it on its own pages, linked from the rule itself.
CET — the municipal traffic-engineering company under the Secretaria Executiva de Mobilidade e Trânsito, not a third party — states the plate table, the two rush-hour windows and the Minianel Viário on its "Como Funciona" page, and links the instruments as PDFs it hosts itself: Lei nº 12.490/1997, Lei nº 16.813/2018, Decreto nº 58.584/2018 and Decreto nº 58.604/2019.
The decree carries every term the record needed — the ten named roads of the ring in article 2, the nine classes of exemption in article 3, and in article 6 a penalty referred to the federal traffic code without an article number, so the fine is null with its reason named.
CET also runs a dated public register of every suspension of the rodízio since 1997, current to 5 August 2026, which is what proves the scheme is still being operated rather than merely still being described.
São Paulo's second scheme followed on 13 September 2026 from the same publisher and the same channel: the Zona de Máxima Restrição de Circulação, which closes most of the central area to lorries 05:00–21:00 on weekdays and 10:00–14:00 on Saturdays, created in concept by Decreto nº 56.920/16 and delimited street by street — 57 numbered segments closing back on themselves — by Anexo II of Portaria nº 137/18-SMT.GAB, which CET hosts as a PDF beside the decree (D-065).
That record is priced where the rodízio's is not, and the difference is instructive: CET's own FAQ states the fine for breaching the R-9 sign, and article 1, paragraph 2 of the portaria states that the R-9 sign with the plate "ÁREA DE RESTRIÇÃO" is what marks the limits of the ZMRC, so the publisher makes the connection rather than us.
What is not established is the rest of the country: only São Paulo has been looked at, and neither boundary carries a reuse term — CET offers the Minianel as a downloadable shapefile with no licence (D-064) and the ZMRC only as print PDFs and Google My Maps documents (D-065), so both records warn at city level.
Rio de Janeiro was looked at on 13 September 2026 and is the reason this entry now carries a rejected candidate. The city does have a lorry restriction and it is not in force.
Decreto Rio nº 45.433 of 7 December 2018 institutes the norms and concepts — four polygon-delimited area types for caminhões and VUCs, Total and Parcial running 06:00 to 21:00, Matutina 06:00 to 10:00, Vespertina 17:00 to 21:00, plus Vias de Restrição Específica that may sit inside or outside the polygons — and paragraph 2 of its article 1 delegates the designation of the actual restricted streets to the Secretaria Municipal de Transportes.
Resolução SMTR nº 3.055 of 10 December 2018 made that designation, banning circulation and loading on working days between six and twenty-one hours in the Área de Restrição Parcial, bounded by the seafront and a named list of port-district streets from Praça Mauá round through Rua Sacadura Cabral and Rua Camerino.
Fifteen months later Resolução SMTR nº 3.254 of 19 March 2020 suspended that designating resolution "por prazo indeterminado", and SMTR still leads its own AEVC permit page with the fact, in capitals. So the concepts stand and nothing is designated under them, which is why the scheme is rejected as suspended rather than withheld: it binds nobody today.
What makes that negative measurable rather than asserted is the Diário Oficial search API, which runs (control word qqzzxxw returns 0 while caminhões returns 4,842 across 1975-2026) and computes a per-year histogram we can read: "Resolução SMTR nº 3254" is mentioned exactly once in the history of the gazette, in the 20 March 2020 edition that published it, so no instrument has ever revoked it; the phrase "carga e descarga de caminhões" was last used in 2024 and appears nowhere in 2025 or 2026, while caminhões alone appears 216 times in those two years; and the exceptional-traffic authorisations that used to cite the resolution weekly run 90 in 2019, 20, 20, 23, then 2 in 2023 and none since.
The last municipal statement of status we found is the D.O. of 11 January 2024, where CET-Rio writes into a traffic-impact approval that both instruments "temporariamente estão suspensos" — mis-citing the suspending instrument as Decreto Rio nº 47.285/2020, which is measurably a COVID decree amending Decreto Rio nº 47.282/2020 on food service, banking and lottery premises.
We record the substance it confirms and not the citation it gets wrong. Nothing here is a boundary: no polygon was ever published for the designated area, only a street list in Anexo I of a suspended resolution. Belo Horizonte followed on 13 September 2026 and is the third Brazilian city and the first whose legal text we can machine-verify.
BHTRANS — the municipal transport and traffic company — bars a goods vehicle whose capacidade de carga is over 5.5 tonnes, or which is longer than 6.50 m, from the central districts it names as Hipercentro, Savassi, Lourdes, Assembleia/Barro Preto and Hospitalar, and from Av.
Nossa Senhora do Carmo, 07:00–20:00 on weekdays and 07:00–15:00 on Saturday; carretas and caminhões-trator are barred from the same ground at every hour of every day, the named corridors into the centre are closed to both classes 07:00–09:00 and 17:00–20:00 on weekdays and 07:00–09:00 on Saturday, and two one-way stretches of Av. do Contorno are closed round the clock.
Three instruments do it: Portaria BHTRANS DPR nº 138/2009 consolidates the perimeters, the corridor list and the timetables; nº 077/2014 adds the Av. do Contorno stretches and replaces "lotação" with "capacidade de carga" throughout; nº 004/2019 raises the free limit from 5 t to 5.50 t and leaves the rest "vigente e inalterado" (D-073). The channel is the one Rio taught us to look for, one step shorter.
Belo Horizonte's Diário Oficial front end is another JavaScript shell that renders nothing without a browser, but its /env.json names the API host and that host serves its own OpenAPI document describing GET /api/v1/edicoes/atos/pesquisar as a public endpoint, so the gazette's full text is readable without reverse-engineering anything — and it is served as HTML rather than as scanned PDF, which is why this is the first Brazilian record whose instruments carry watched strings of their own.
Two traps are worth carrying forward: the OpenAPI servers entry adds an /api prefix the front end's own path literals omit, and without it the host answers 200 with its Swagger page rather than 404; and paginacao really is JSON, so the bracket form axios would normally produce answers 500. The same index supplies the denominators.
A control word returns 0 while caminhões returns 2,934; "138/2009" returns 33 acts across the whole gazette whose most recent is the January 2019 amending portaria, so nothing has touched it since; "cavalos mecânicos" returns 24, all of them 2014 or earlier and none after February 2019; and that the scheme is still operated is not inferred but stated, on a BHTRANS page updated ten days before we read it, which says the two portarias fix the roads and the hours and that it enforces them with electronic detectors plus a 24-hour monitoring post on the BR 356.
The fine is null here where São Paulo's ZMRC is priced, and for a reason worth keeping: "multa", "infra" and "penalidade" match nothing in any of the three portarias, none of which cites the federal traffic code at all, and no BHTRANS page attaches a sum, so the empty figure means "not published" rather than "none exists" — which the record says outright, because a driver reading it the other way would be badly wrong.
No boundary again, and measured three ways: BHTRANS offers one printable PDF map, the city's open-data portal lists 24 BHTRANS datasets and none of them is a restricted area, and the municipal GeoServer advertises 748 WFS layers of which the only restriction is for drone flights. Curitiba came next, on 13 September 2026, and arrived as two schemes rather than one.
Decreto Municipal nº 934 of 11 September 1997 traces a closed perimeter of named streets around the centre, calls it the Zona Central de Tráfego, and bars vehicles over 7.0 tonnes or 7.0 m long from circulating inside it 09:00–19:00 on weekdays and 09:00–13:30 on Saturday, with article 10 releasing Saturday afternoon, Sunday and every public holiday outright — the first Brazilian scheme in this corpus whose own instrument states a holiday exception.
Portaria SMDT nº 11 of 18 February 2022 is the second and a different animal: a municipal act binding a federal road, barring goods vehicles over 10 tonnes gross from the BR 476 — the Linha Verde — between Km 120,9 and Km 142,8 at the two weekday peaks, which the city may legislate for because the federal highway police delegated traffic authority over exactly that stretch to it.
The channel is the third shape Brazil has shown us and the most useful.
Curitiba runs no gazette API; it runs Legisladoc, an ASP.NET act database with a status column, so the currency question that Rio and Belo Horizonte answered by inference has a machine-readable answer here: both instruments come back "Em Vigor", while the two earlier portarias on the same BR 476 stretch come back "Revogada", and a control number returns 0 against 1,174 decrees for the same year.
What that database will not do is full text: a search on the text field never answers, timing out and then resetting the connection, so whether a later IPPUC portaria refined the 1997 thresholds is not something we can measure.
Two things are left unresolved and said so in the records: article 8 states "7,0 toneladas" without saying gross or payload, where the rest of the decree consistently means payload, and it says "veículos" where article 1 scopes the decree to the goods-handling service.
Neither instrument prices a breach — "multa" and "penalidade" match nothing in either — and neither has a boundary: GeoCuritiba's public ArcGIS server carries 479 layers across 88 map services and none of them is this zone, the open-data portal holds 32 datasets and none is geographic, and the BR 476 stretch is bounded by kilometre post, which we will not convert.
Porto Alegre is the fifth Brazilian city and the odd one out: it has a scheme and no instrument.
EPTC — the municipal transport and traffic company — states on its own service page that in the Centro Histórico a vehicle above 10 tonnes Peso Bruto Total and/or longer than seven metres may not circulate 07:00-19:00 Monday to Friday or 07:00-14:00 on Saturday, that above 15 tonnes gross it may not circulate at any hour, and that seven named roads stay open inside those windows; fire, recovery and cash-in-transit vehicles are excepted, and anything else needs a Licença de Circulação no Centro Histórico applied for ten to sixty days ahead.
What is missing is the decree, and its absence is measured on two channels with controls.
The municipality's SAPL legislation database — run by the Procuradoria-Geral do Município, advertising its own OpenAPI so nothing had to be reverse-engineered — answers 0 for a control word while answering 70 for "trânsito", 408 for "EPTC", 57 for "Centro Histórico", 30 for "área central", 2 for "veículos de carga" and 0 for "toneladas", and holds no instrument establishing this restriction.
The DOPA gazette's own search API, whose gateway and four parameters its Angular bundle names in the clear and whose server caps any window at 365 days, answers 0 for the control word and 63 for "caminhões" across 2020-2026, every hit a procurement notice.
The publisher accounts for that itself: Parecer singular PGM nº 792 of 21 February 1994, in the same database, states that the municipality is competent to limit heavy traffic on urban roads "mediante aposição de placas indicativas" — by putting up signs. So the rule is the signage, and the signage is what we read.
EPTC publishes "Sinalização Gráfica", its register of every horizontal and vertical sign in the city, as open data under a Creative Commons Attribution licence: 115,673 records extracted on 1 September 2025, of which 50 are R-9 lorry-prohibition signs anywhere in the municipality and 16 carry this scheme's legend — the 10-to-15-tonne band together with the weekday window.
Fourteen of the 16 read "PESO BRUTO TOTAL ENTRE 10 E 15 TON - 2ª A 6ª - 7 ÀS 19H - SÁBADO - 7 ÀS 14H - COMPRIMENTO MÁX=7,0M - PBT ACIMA DE 15 TON - CIRCULAÇÃO PROIBIDA", which is the service page's rule word for word from an entirely separate publisher channel; eleven were installed on 29 March 2011 and five between 2012 and 2018.
The other two disagree and the record prints them rather than smoothing them out — one ends the weekday window at 18:00, one states an 18-tonne band with a 16-tonne absolute limit — because on the ground the sign is what a driver is enforced against.
One contradiction is left open on purpose: the service page writes the weight and length tests as "e/ou", either one, while EPTC's own LCH information sheet writes them as "e", both at once, which decides whether a 12-tonne lorry of six metres is in the scheme. We encode the stricter reading, disclose both, and log it rather than resolving it for the publisher.
The fine is null and means "not published": EPTC names no amount, no infraction class and no article of the federal code anywhere we can read, and São Paulo's bridge — the publisher itself tying the R-9 sign to a sum — does not exist here.
No boundary, measured where it could be measured and honest where it could not: the open-data portal holds 56 datasets of which 5 are mobility and none is a restricted area, a CKAN search for "restri" returns 0 packages, OpenStreetMap holds nothing within 20 km of the anchor, and the municipal ArcGIS server answers for a service named directly but returns HTTP 403 on its own directory listing, so we state no denominator for it.
Sixteen sign positions are not a polygon and we do not join them into one. Salvador is the sixth Brazilian city, published 13 September 2026, and it separates two things Porto Alegre had let stand together: having no instrument, and not being able to ask for one.
Transalvador — the municipal traffic superintendency under the Secretaria Municipal de Mobilidade — states that a caminhão de grande porte above 6.5 metres long and 2.2 metres wide, together with tratores, may not circulate in the Áreas de Restrição de Circulação between 06:00 and 10:00 Monday to Saturday or between 17:00 and 20:00 Monday to Friday, and that on the Orla a third window runs 09:00 to 20:00 on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays; the areas also forbid stopping, parking and loading.
Veículos Urbanos de Carga are exempt at any hour on any day, and construction firms working inside the areas hold an Autorização Especial de Tráfego, Carga e Descarga.
The area is a closed list in three parts: the inner contour of a ring of central avenues, the seafront from the Largo da Calçada to the Jardim dos Namorados, and nineteen further named roads including the Paralela, the Bonocô, the ACM and a stretch of the BR-324, four of them limited to a named segment.
This is the only Brazilian scheme in the corpus that keys to no weight at all — it is a tape measure, and nothing on a registration document answers it. No instrument is named on any of Transalvador's four channels; it writes only "conforme a legislação vigente".
Three publisher indexes were measured with controls and none holds one: Transalvador's own site answers 0 for a control word against 37 for "caminhões", 32 for "Portaria", 27 for "Decreto" and 74 for "restrição de circulação"; the city portal answers 0 against 40, all Carnival credentials; the mobility secretariat carries the scheme not at all.
The fourth channel is the one that matters and it cannot be counted: Salvador's Diário Oficial publishes every edition as a PDF and its Joomla search indexes only the edition titles, so it answers 0 for "portaria" while we hold, read from that same gazette over plain HTTP, the full text of Portaria nº 416/2015 — which is headed PORTARIA N.º 416/2015 and restricts circulation on six streets of the Centro Histórico.
So we do not say Salvador has no law; we say its gazette cannot be searched by content and name the reason, the same discipline as Porto Alegre's 403 directory and Curitiba's token-gated folders. Currency is answered the way Rio taught us to ask.
Two independently maintained channels — the DTRAN operational system and Transalvador's service page of 17 January 2023 — carry the same threshold, the same three windows and the same road list on different hosts and different content systems.
Transalvador announces suspensions: it suspended enforcement during the 2018 lorry drivers' strike and again in March 2020 for pandemic supply, and announced the resumption of each, on 5 June 2018 and 3 August 2020. A search of its news index for a later suspension returns 0 against a working control, and it cited 3,640 drivers in 2019 and 801 in the first quarter of 2020.
The fine is priced here, and not by us: Transalvador's own release states that breaching this restriction is an infração média carrying R$ 130,16 and four licence points — São Paulo's bridge rather than a class picked from the national table — with the caveat that the sum is the figure the publisher last printed, in August 2020.
One contradiction is left open on purpose: three channels across eight years write "2,2 metros de largura", width, while the two news releases of August 2020 write "2,2 de altura", height, which decides whether a tall narrow vehicle is in the scheme. We encode the width reading, disclose both, and log it rather than resolving it for the publisher.
No boundary, and here the negative carries a real denominator rather than a refusal: the municipal ArcGIS server behind the city's open-data site lists its entire directory without a token — 25 folders, 377 services, 2,715 layers, no folder refused — and a search of all of them for restri, carga, caminh, circula, ARC and trânsito returns 74 layers of which not one is a restricted area, a lorry route or a traffic regulation; the mobility secretariat's whole contribution is one layer of traffic cameras.
OpenStreetMap holds nothing within 20 km of the anchor.
The radius was nearly got wrong and the error is worth carrying forward: matching the scheme's avenue names loosely returned 994 ways with a furthest corner at 25.46 km, but the ways carrying that figure were a Rua Otávio Mangabeira, an Estrada Antônio Carlos Magalhães and an Avenida Presidente Castelo Branco in the far northern districts — different roads sharing a politician's name.
Anchored to the publisher's own designations the furthest unambiguous corridor is the Paralela at 16.51 km, inside the 20 km default, while the município reaches 36.39 km and would not fit. Salvador produced a second record on the same day, and it is the first scheme in this corpus whose restriction has no clock at all (D-084).
Portaria nº 416/2015 of the Transalvador superintendency, signed 3 November 2015 and published in the Diário Oficial do Município of 6 November 2015 (Ano XXIX nº 6.456, page 9), restricts the circulation of "veículos" — every vehicle, a private car included — on six streets of the Pelourinho: Porta do Carmo, Leovigildo de Carvalho, João de Deus, Das Laranjeiras, Santa Isabel and the Largo do Pelourinho.
Article 1 sets no window, no weekday list and no season, and the only hours anywhere in the instrument belong to an exception rather than to the ban: article 4 allows loading and unloading in signposted bays 07:00-11:00 Monday to Saturday.
Residents who prove they have an off-street parking space are guaranteed access after registering with Transalvador, and SEMOB-registered tourism coaches and taxis may set down and pick up passengers at marked points; an out-of-town coach applies for a temporary registration.
Article 5 refers the penalty to the federal traffic code without citing an article, a class or an amount, so the fine is null and means "not published" (D-053).
This is the record that closes the gap the Áreas de Restrição de Circulação left open: there the scheme was nameless and the gazette could not be searched, here the instrument is named, dated and read in full from that same gazette, and Transalvador links the PDF from both of its pages.
Currency passes the two-channel test — the DTRAN operational system and the authority website page of 17 January 2023 carry the same six streets, the same three exceptions and the same loading window on different hosts and different content systems, and their wording differs in small ways ("Cidade do Salvador" against "cidade de Salvador", "de 07:00 às 11:00" against "das 7h às 11h"), which is how we know they are maintained separately rather than mirrored.
No boundary, and for a reason the sibling record does not have: the scheme is street-shaped rather than area-shaped, so a cordon around the Pelourinho would close streets the portaria leaves open.
What the record says it cannot see is the signage: article 1 gives no sign legend and Salvador publishes no sign register, so a narrower window painted on a sign would be invisible to us — the channel Porto Alegre had and this city does not.
Fortaleza was looked at on 13 September 2026 and is the first Brazilian city where we found a named instrument, read the publisher on it five times, and still did not publish (D-085).
The scheme is real: Portaria nº 83/2015 of the Autarquia Municipal de Trânsito e Cidadania replaced an older tara-based rule capped at 2.5 tonnes with a size test — a lorry may enter the áreas de restrição de circulação only at 6.50 m long, 2.20 m wide and 4.40 m high or under, and only once registered with the AMC, while anything larger needs an autorização especial de tráfego.
The areas are the Centro, the Grande Aldeota corridors, Av. Beira-Mar, Av. Monsenhor Tabosa and Av.
Prof. Gomes de Matos in the Montese, with Rui Barbosa, Heráclito Graça and Gomes de Matos added by the new portaria; signs went up on Gomes de Matos, Treze de Maio, Pontes Vieira and Barão de Studart first; enforcement began 20 November 2015 after a month of education, and electronic enforcement on 23 May 2016 with the first device on Monsenhor Tabosa.
Breaching it is an infração média of R$ 85,13 with four licence points. Three separate things stop a record, and each is measured.
First, the hours are not published anywhere, and not by omission: the publisher delegates them to the signs and says so — "delimitadas pela sinalização vertical", "exceto nos horários permitidos pela sinalização", "em determinados horários" — and the offence itself is defined as "transitar em local e horário proibido pela sinalização".
This is Porto Alegre's shape on its worse side, because there EPTC published the legend of every sign as open data and we read the hours off it; Fortaleza publishes no sign register, and that is counted rather than assumed — the city geoportal "Fortaleza em Mapas" carries 543 maps in 61 groups with zero matches for sinaliza, placa, R-9 or regulamenta, and the CKAN open-data portal holds 637 datasets of which 22 are the AMC's and none is a sign register or a restricted area.
Second, the last thing the publisher said about the scheme is a suspension. On 18 March 2020 the AMC suspended enforcement "em caráter provisório", from 16 March "até o final do mês", freeing goods vehicles to circulate at any hour and extending existing permits by 30 days.
Nothing has been published about the restriction since, and that zero is a real negative rather than a blind index: the city portal's Joomla search answers 0 for the control word qqzzxxw while answering 7 for "restrição de caminhões", 5 for "Portaria 83/2015", 12 for "circulação de caminhões", 26 for "caminhões de grande porte", 27 for "áreas de restrição" and 147 for "caminhões", and it prints a date on every hit — the most recent hit on the scheme in any of those searches is that 2020 suspension.
It is not Rio's shape either: Rio's suspension was indefinite and its publisher still says so, Fortaleza's ran two weeks by its own terms and was followed by six years of silence, and there is no measured state between the two. Third, the instrument itself cannot be read, on four channels.
The publisher's own PDF of the portaria, linked from its 2015 release, is HTTP 404 over http and https alike; diariooficial.fortaleza.ce.gov.br answers HTTP 200 with a 709-byte page reading "Sua solicitação foi negada" and a bot support ID on every path including robots.txt, which we do not work around; legislacao.fortaleza.ce.gov.br resets the connection on https and fails the socket on http; and legislacao.pgm.fortaleza.ce.gov.br, the law office's MediaWiki legislation store, does answer and does have a working API — control word 0, "portaria" 30, "restrição de circulação" 6, "caminhões" 7 — but its corpus is leis and decretos, its newest edit is from 2017, and it holds no AMC portaria at all.
So Fortaleza is recorded as neither a rejected nor a withheld candidate, because both would state something we did not measure: WithheldCandidate requires a sentence proving the scheme binds someone today and we have none, while the nearest rejection reason, suspended, means "suspended for an indefinite period" and this one was explicitly time-limited.
The one channel that would settle all three questions at once is the municipal gazette, and it is behind bot protection. The geometry is closed in the same pass: none of the 543 geoportal maps and none of the 637 open datasets is this scheme, and the AMC's own 2026 electronic-enforcement dataset lists 190 active devices under a single finalidade, "Fiscalização", so it does not say what any of them enforces.
Recife was read on 13 September 2026 and produced the continent's eleventh scheme, and it is unlike every one before it: a lane, not an area.
The CTTU's Faixa Azul reserves the blue lane on twelve mapped corridors for buses and for taxis registered in the município, Monday to Friday 06:00 to 22:00, with everyone else allowed in only to turn off or to reach a property on the right where the line is dashed — and the authority prices the breach itself, gravíssima under article 184 of the federal code, R$ 243,47 and seven licence points.
It has no instrument we could read, and it did not need one: the CTTU publishes every fine it issues, and in its 2025 register 18,442 of 171,109 citations carry infraction code 7587, "Transitar na faixa ou via exclusiva", under Art. 184 Inc. III, with the enforcing agent recorded as "Código 9 - FAIXA AZUL" — the scheme's own name, in the publisher's own ledger, eighteen thousand times in a year.
That is the strongest evidence of currency in this corpus, and it arrived in a city with no lorry ban at all.
The negative on the question Recife was opened for is clean and carries its denominators: the CTTU's site search returns 0 for "tonelada", 0 for "VUC" and 0 for "carga pesada" against a control that returns nothing and real counts of 4 to 12 for every neighbouring term; the municipal gazette, which unlike Salvador's does index its own PDF text, returns one hit for "circulação de caminhões" across 2013-2026 and it is a councillor complaining about dust; the open-data portal holds 222 datasets, 30 of them the CTTU's, with 0 for "restricao" and no sign register; and the 47 mobility services in the city's service catalogue include no special-transit authorisation and no freight permit.
Two limits are stated rather than glossed: the gazette archive begins in 2013, so a pre-2013 instrument would be invisible to it, and the city delegates its consolidated legislation to leismunicipais.com.br, which answers 403.
Recife also runs a second, real restriction that did NOT become a record — the central carriageway of the Praça do Derby has been closed to all but buses and the BRT since March 2020, and 7,526 citations under article 187 fell there and on Avenida Conde da Boa Vista in 2025 — because its only statement is a 2018 and a 2020 press release, no instrument exists in the gazette, and the 2025 enforcement contradicts the 2018 announcement on which direction is restricted (D-086, D-087).
Campinas was read on 14 September 2026 and published (D-090), and it is the first city in this corpus whose public website contains no rule at all in any form a reader or a crawler can see: campinas.sp.gov.br is an Angular shell that answers every route — the gazette, the legal library, a service page, a news article — with the same 63,248 bytes of markup, and its only outbound links are stylesheets and script bundles.
The rule lives behind the headless Drupal those bundles call, and the bundle names it in the clear: portal-adm.campinas.sp.gov.br/api/v1/, 73 endpoints, plus an open JSON:API at /jsonapi with 48 node types. Three of them carry the scheme.
The service catalogue holds 590 municipal services, and "Emdec – Autorização de circulação" states the instrument in one sentence — "conforme a Resolução nº 079/2017 da Secretaria Municipal de Transportes (Setransp). Essa resolução detalha em que locais, dias e horários os veículos de carga com comprimento acima de 6,30 metros e acima de 14 metros NÃO podem circular (Art.
3º a 5º e Anexo I)" — together with the permit fee of 8.85 UFICs, the seven ACC trades and the two ACM conditions.
The news archive holds 56,565 articles behind a search endpoint that reports a total and answers 0 to the control word qqzzxxw against 197 for "caminhões", 17 for "veículos de carga" and 3 for "Anel de Integração", and those three are the whole public account of the rule: 11 August 2025 announcing camera enforcement, 18 August 2025 starting it, and 30 January 2026 counting it.
All three state the same threshold and the same two timetables — goods vehicles over 6.3 metres, 06:00–20:00 Monday to Friday and 06:00–14:00 on Saturday, inside the Anel de Integração Engenheiro Rebouças — and the 2025 pair price the breach in the publisher's own sentence at R$ 130,16 and four licence points, which is the D-053 exception.
The 2026 article is the currency evidence and it is a fine ledger in prose: 357 citations between August and December 2025 and 206 in January 2026, from two cameras that check each plate against the permit database rather than the vehicle register. What no channel will give us is the instrument.
Four municipal hosts accept no TCP connection at all — bibliotecajuridica.campinas.sp.gov.br, which holds the resolutions; transparencia.campinas.sp.gov.br; dom-pesquisa.ima.sp.gov.br, the gazette's own full-text search, which the bundle also names in the clear; and zoneamento.campinas.sp.gov.br, which serves the geospatial layer catalogue the city's own service entry points at — each timing out after ten seconds and returning zero bytes to curl as a second client, in the same 37-second run in which www.campinas.sp.gov.br answered in 1.0 s, portal-adm in 0.8 s and assets.ima.sp.gov.br, on the same parent domain as the dead gazette search, in 0.8 s.
That is the Belém control-host recipe applied to a city we can otherwise read. The fifth channel is the traffic authority itself, and it is refusing rather than silent: www.emdec.com.br answers a proof-of-work browser challenge to one client and "Attack blocked by web application protection" — a Check Point UserCheck page, HTTP 403, 274,179 bytes — to another. We do not work around either.
The gazette archive is reachable and useless for this: the publication API lists all 7,688 editions from 1995 to 2026 with their PDFs and indexes not one word of their contents, which is Salvador's shape exactly.
So the area comes from the oldest source in the record — the municipality's own announcement of 18 February 2011, which lists the twenty roads forming the Anel de Integração and is the announcement of the resolution that the one in force replaced. The record says so where a driver reads it.
Campinas also runs a second restriction that did not become a record: vehicles over 14 metres are barred from the whole area inside the city's ring of federal highways — Dom Pedro I, Anhanguera, Bandeirantes, Santos Dumont, José Roberto Magalhães Teixeira and the Alberto Panzan access — and from the Distrito de Nova Aparecida.
The 2026 service catalogue confirms both that the 14-metre threshold is still in Resolução nº 079/2017 and that Nova Aparecida is still a restricted area, but the only statement of that rule's hours and its boundary is the 2011 page, so it is withheld rather than published.
No boundary for either: the four obvious open-data and GIS host names under campinas.sp.gov.br — dadosabertos, dados, geoportal and mapas — do not resolve at all, the one catalogue that exists is on a host that will not answer, and OpenStreetMap holds no restriction object within 20 km of the anchor.
Drawing the ring ourselves was rejected under D-082: nine of its twenty names collide with other roads in the same municipality, "Heitor Penteado" matching 59 ways out to 28.70 km because Campinas also has a Rodovia Heitor Penteado. Boa Vista was read on 14 September 2026 and produced a negative this corpus had not met before.
Roraima's capital has a lorry law, it is in force, it has never been repealed, and it does not contain the restriction its own title announces — so it is withheld rather than rejected, and the entry above says what is missing and what to watch. Two things about the reading are worth carrying forward. The first is that the SAPL recipe Porto Velho produced the day before does not travel unchecked.
Porto Velho's register held the executive decree that regulates its scheme, so a "Regulamenta" edge there was a real answer; Boa Vista's register declares nine norm types and every one of them is an instrument of the legislature, so the same zero means only that the Câmara has not legislated again. Ask what a register holds before reading a silence in it.
The graph is also far sparser here — 576 relations and 31 full repeals against Porto Velho's 4,738 and 977 — which is why the life signal mattered more, not less: the most recent repeal edge is Lei nº 2.862 of 8 June 2026, three months old.
The second is that the executive is a separate, better channel, and the city's own front page names it: publicacoes.boavista.rr.gov.br is a Vue shell over a plain REST API whose bundle names the endpoints in the clear, and it splits Leis from atos normativos — Decreto, Portaria, Resolução, Instrução Normativa — and full-text indexes the contents of both as PDFs rather than only their titles.
That is what let the negative be measured instead of assumed. It is also what produced the decisive evidence, which is not a silence at all but a statement: Capítulo XII of the Plano de Mobilidade Urbana, Lei nº 2.704 of 16 June 2025, lists regulating loading places and hours among the actions still to be carried out, ten months after the 2024 law was promulgated.
The city says in its own planning instrument that the rule a driver would need has not been made. ⚠️ One caution about that channel: its search is token-ranked and not literal, which is the opposite of the SAPL register's raw ILIKE substring. Asking it for "RESTRIÇÃO PARA CIRCULAÇÃO" returns laws from 1974, and its ranking is what surfaced the mobility plan.
A zero from it is a real zero, but a hit from it is a candidate rather than a match. Rio Branco was the named fallback and fell to an older shape.
Its Câmara's SAPL register holds exactly one instrument on the subject — Lei Ordinária-CMRB nº 1.101, de 17 de agosto de 1993, "Estabelece horário para cargas e descargas de veículos no centro comercial de Rio Branco" — and the PDF the register serves for it is a scan with no text layer at all: PyMuPDF matches nothing against a bare "." across its single page. That is La Paz's shape.
It carries no data_publicacao either, and the register's relation graph cannot cover for it, holding 32 relations across 3,323 norms, most of them against the Regimento Interno — so unlike Boa Vista there is no maintained graph here and a zero in it would prove nothing.
The register's other terms do not rescue it: "carga" returns seven acts, all about mototáxi, motofrete and freight-hire services, and "caminh" returns three false positives — a Caminha surname, an Associação Caminho Aberto and the word encaminhamentos — which is the raw-substring trap again, against a control term returning zero.
The executive side is reachable and has nothing: www.riobranco.ac.gov.br answers 766 KB and its WordPress index returns zero for "decreto carga descarga" and nine road-works stories for "veículos pesados", against a control of zero. Nothing was established about a lorry restriction in Rio Branco, and the one instrument that would settle it cannot be read.
Found in force here, and not yet recordable:
Looked at and not counted as a scheme:
Checked against the publisher's own listing of everything it holds — 68 pages from Secretaría de Movilidad, Municipio del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito, 2,812 resolutions from Secretaría de Movilidad — annual registers of its own resolutions, 2020 to 2026.
We still cannot read https://www.amt.gob.ec/index.php/informacion/pico-y-placa/ (TCP connects in 32 ms and the connection is reset about twelve seconds later, after our Client Hello and before any ServerHello — LibreSSL SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL, ECONNRESET from node:tls, with TLS capped at 1.2 as well as unrestricted.
Not a connect timeout, which is what this corpus called it from cycle 34 to cycle 40, and not a certificate we distrust. Where the handshake breaks is not visible from here: four other hosts we had labelled the same way reset at almost the same second. This is the URL the Secretaría de Movilidad itself links for the scheme.
Measured with scripts/probe-tls.mjs.); https://codigomunicipal.quito.gob.ec/articulos (The same shape as www.amt.gob.ec on three samples: TCP connects in 33 ms, reset at twelve seconds without a ServerHello.
This is the consolidated Código Municipal, where the ordinance behind the instructivo lives.); https://mdmqdireccioninformatica-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/dmit_movilidad_quito_gob_ec/Elg_kh-C7hFHouLQzcKk48AByXmos3b5xeYYdt2LTPdV5A (HTTP 403, 13 bytes, after redirecting to /personal/dmit_movilidad_quito_gob_ec/Documents/ResolucionesSM/2023/SM-2023-0149.
This is how the Secretaría publishes resolution SM-2023-0149: a folder share on an employee's personal OneDrive, requiring a sign-in we do not have and will not work around.); https://proyectos.quito.gob.ec/modulosga/index.php (HTTP 403, 334 bytes, byte-identical in shape to what the same host returns for /robots.txt.
Per D-057 that makes it a rejection rather than a robots rule: the host publishes no directive, it declines us.); https://www7.quito.gob.ec/mdmq_ordenanzas/ (HTTP 403, 334 bytes, and its /robots.txt returns the same 334 bytes — rejection, not a directive (D-057).); https://gobiernoabierto.quito.gob.ec/ (HTTP 403, 334 bytes — the same WAF response as the other two municipal subdomains.); https://www.quito.gob.ec/sitemap.xml (HTTP 200, 284,090 bytes — and it is the home page, not a sitemap.
Every unknown path on this host returns that same body, so this bounds nothing. The host's query form does answer honestly: ?page_id=99999999 returns a real HTTP 404. Its WordPress search also runs, verified against a positive control (?s=movilidad matches, ?s=pico+y+placa and ?s=qqzzxxw both return "nada coincide").), so treat this as unfinished rather than clear — we do not work around a block.
Quito's Pico y Placa is no longer unbounded: the city names the instrument, dates it, and we still cannot read a word of what it says.
The way in was a subdomain nobody had opened. www.quito.gob.ec answers HTTP 200 now, and the reason earlier cycles read it as a host that cannot signal 404 is that they asked it for paths: every unknown path returns the 284,090-byte homepage, but the canonical query form does not — ?page_id=99999999 returns a real HTTP 404 of 183,326 bytes titled "Página no encontrada".
Its search runs, proved both ways: ?s=movilidad returns matching pages, ?s=pico+y+placa and the control word ?s=qqzzxxw both return "Lo siento, pero nada coincide con tus términos de búsqueda". So the main portal genuinely holds nothing on the scheme.
The Secretaría de Movilidad does. movilidad.quito.gob.ec serves a 123-byte robots.txt that disallows only /wp-admin/ and declares a sitemap of 68 URLs, and within it seven annual registers of the Secretaría's own resolutions — 2,812 rows for 2020 to 2026, each with a number, a title and, from 2022 on, a date.
Three of those rows are the scheme: SM-2021-259 issues the instructivo for the "PLAN DE RESTRICCIÓN VEHICULAR 'PICO Y PLACA'", SM-2021-0277 is the instructivo itself, and SM-2023-0149 of 11 April 2023 is a "Resolución reformatoria al Instructivo Pico y Placa". Controls hold on that denominator too: "socio" matches 1,285 times across the seven registers and "qqzzxxw" zero.
What we cannot do is read the three documents, and the three doors fail in three distinct ways. The register publishes each resolution as a SharePoint folder share on one employee's personal OneDrive; requesting SM-2023-0149 redirects to /personal/dmit_movilidad_quito_gob_ec/Documents/ResolucionesSM/2023/SM-2023-0149 and answers HTTP 403 in 13 bytes.
The Secretaría's own live homepage links its "Pico y placa" tile to the Agencia Metropolitana de Tránsito at www.amt.gob.ec/index.php/informacion/pico-y-placa/, and measuring that host layer by layer corrected a label this corpus had carried since cycle 34.
It is not a TCP connect timeout: TCP connects in 32 ms and the connection is then reset about twelve seconds after our Client Hello, before any ServerHello, with TLS capped at 1.2 as well as unrestricted. codigomunicipal.quito.gob.ec, which holds the consolidated Código Municipal the ordinance lives in, does exactly the same thing — and so, once measured the same way, do eight further government hosts we had labelled "TCP connect timeout" across Mexico, Bolivia, Peru and Spain.
Ten unrelated hosts resetting at almost the same second, unchanged whether we offer TLS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3, is weak evidence for ten broken servers, so we do not say whose fault it is; what is now certain, and what the old label denied, is that these hosts are listening.
The municipality's two remaining ordinance channels answer HTTP 403 in 334 bytes, and per D-057 that is rejection rather than a robots rule: proyectos.quito.gob.ec and www7.quito.gob.ec return the identical 334 bytes for robots.txt and for real content alike. So does gobiernoabierto.quito.gob.ec. Quito is therefore a withheld candidate rather than an unbounded gap — recorded below.
Found in force here, and not yet recordable:
We still cannot read https://www.munlima.gob.pe/ (TCP reports open in 32 ms on both www.munlima.gob.pe and munlima.gob.pe, and both are then reset at twelve seconds without a ServerHello (ECONNRESET).
What that does NOT establish, corrected 2026-09-13 (D-078): a control connection to 192.0.2.1 — an RFC 5737 documentation address where no host can exist — opens from here in 32 ms too, so our own egress answers every connection and the TCP result says nothing about the city's host.
Measured further: an idle connection stays open past 14 s, while four meaningless bytes draw the same reset at 12 s — so it is not TLS that offends, and nothing ever arrives back.
The next move is a probe from a different network.); https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/ (HTTP 200, but the result set loads over JavaScript — the served page contains no records to search), so treat this as unfinished rather than clear — we do not work around a block.
Nothing was established about Lima. The Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima is unreachable on both its hosts, and on 12 September 2026 we measured the failure properly instead of trusting our HTTP client's word for it: this is not the TCP connect timeout recorded here before.
Both hosts accept the connection in 32 ms and are then reset at twelve seconds, before any ServerHello — so the publisher's server is listening, and the wall is somewhere in the handshake we cannot see from here. El Peruano's búsquedas service answers HTTP 200 but loads its results over JavaScript — the page we get carries the day's five cuadernillos and the word "Cargando…", and no searchable record set.
The national portal gob.pe does declare an inventory, and this cycle taught us to open it: its single declared sitemap is gzipped, which our probe used to read as zero URLs and would have recorded as a publisher serving nothing.
Decompressed it is an index of 139 sitemaps at 50,000 URLs each — roughly seven million pages for the whole Peruvian state, which is not a denominator for a question about Lima, so we did not enumerate it and do not claim a negative from it. Retried once on 10 September 2026: munlima.gob.pe still times out.