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STATUTORY INTERPRETATION, MULTISTATE SOURCES
LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW
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Compiled Legislative Histories
  • Thought for the the Day Let someone else do the
    work for you.
  • Governmental, Commercial and Non-profits all have
    strong motivations to compile legislative
    histories on major enactments for purposes of
    administration, sale, lobbying, litigation, etc.
  • These are highly useful sources if one exists for
    your Public Law

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Bibliographies of Compiled Legislative Histories
  • Federal legislative Histories An Annotated
    Bibliography and Index to Officially Published
    Sources. Greenwood Press. 1994 Res. KF 42.2 1994
  • 255 legislative histories (1862-1990)
  • Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories. Fred
    B. Rothman Co. 1996 Res.KF 42.2 1979 (updated
    last in 1992)

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State Legislative Histories
  • Manz, William H. Guide to State Legislative and
    Administrative Materials. 2002 ed. Littleton,
    Co Fred B. Rothman Publications. 2002. KF 1
    .G8 2002
  • Details print and electronic sources for
    administrative and legislative information for
    the fifty states.

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Background information
  • The Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, the
    Washington Post, National Journal and the New
    York Times can be excellent sources of background
    information.
  • The Law Library has a subscription to
    Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report,
    library.cqpress.com/cqweekly

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MULTISTATE REFERENCESOURCES
  • Definition
  • Gather together in one place the laws of all the
    states arranged by subject or provide a list of
    publications that have gathered together all the
    state statutes on a given subject
  • Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest (Reserve KF 190.
    M32 2002
  • All states
  • Two dozen categories 100 topics
  • Gives citation to statutes and refers to
    important cases

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MULTISTATE REFERENCESOURCES II
  • Uniform Laws Annotated (Reserve KF 165 . A5 1968)
    38 volumes West Publishing
  • Since 1892 the National Conference of
    Commissioners on Uniform State Laws have
    developed approx. 220 Uniform Laws model acts
  • Full text of act, commentary annotations
  • Annual tables listing by act name jurisdiction
  • Subject Compilation of State Laws (KF 1 .F672)
  • Annual
  • Reference to texts articles and Web sites
    listing subject compilations of state laws

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MUNICIPAL CODES AND CHARTERS
  • Charter - basic laws creating the structure of
  • local government
  • Ordinances - laws passed by local governing
  • body
  • Code - subject arrangement of the ordinances

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MUNICIPAL CODES AND CHARTERS II
  • The full text of many city and county codes
    also can be found at the Seattle Public Librarys
    Web site
  • http//www.spl.lib.wa.us/selectedsites/municode.h
    tml

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MUNICIPAL CODES AND CHARTERS III
  • Ordinance Law Annotations. (15 vols. West Group
    1969-) KF 5313.S5
  • Contains cases on scope and applications of
    local laws.
  • Annual supplements and editorial paragraphs
  • preceding each topic
  • Municipal Ordinances Text and Forms 2nd ed. (KF
    5313 .M342 2002 Supp.)

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BUILDING CODES
  • Industry standards
  • Many local agencies incorporate industry
    standards
  • and codes by reference
  • For example the Uniform Building Code
  • (International Conference of Building
  • Officials) or National Fire Prevention Code
  • Building Officials and Code Administrators
  • International)
  • http//www.osufiret.com
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