Authority

A body set up by law to run one job. It often has its own board and its own income, like a housing, transit or water authority.

Code
authority
Full identifier (IRI)
https://schema.govfresh.com/v1/orgclass/authority
Part of
Government organization classification
JSON file
/v1/codelists/organization-classification.json
Profile
core

A document only ever uses the short code above (authority). The full identifier is just its complete, globally unique form, so any system reading it knows exactly which term is meant.