State and Local Government -- Statutes and Codes

Although most states have their own government sites on the Internet, those sites can be difficult to locate and it can be cumbersome to maintain links to them individually. There are several resources that have complied the individual sites into one location. These mega-sites include links to statutes and regulations. They also include links to state government offices, executive resources, legislative resources, judicial resources and local resources.

• State Legislatures, State Laws and State Regulations was created by the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. (LLSDC). This site provides an alphabetical list of state links. When you click on the state abbreviation, you are provided with a concise list of links to available documents such as the legislature or general assembly, the code or statutes, state registers, and regulations. At the end of the state list, LLSDC has provided a list of additional resources for state government information or state legislative research.

• Full-text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet lists the states alphabetically and links to state constitutions, statutes, legislation, session laws, codes, registers and regulations where applicable. Links to sites maintained by governments are in bold type. This resource is provided by Prairienet Community Network. Prairienet is part of the Community Informatics Initiative (CII) of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• State and Local Government on the Net also provides an alphabetical list of the states. When you click on the state name, you are directed to an intermediary page with a list of links to the state homepage, state offices, the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the executive branch, boards and commissions, regional, city and town web pages. Another feature on the main page, underneath the list of states, is a list of links to national organizations.

• Constitutions, Statutes, and Codes is a page from Cornell University's Legal Information Institute (LII). If you scroll down the page past the federal resources to the state resources, there is a useful feature called State Statutes by Topic. This resource provides either a direct link to the state's code section for specific topics or a link to the state's code with directions to the appropriate title. LII also provides an alphabetical list of the states. Each link takes you to a page with links to state constitutions, legislation, judicial opinions and regulations.

• State Statutes and Codes is one of several free resources provided by BRB Publications, Inc. (http://www.brbpub.com/). You can link to state codes from the Laws and Legislation page. Under the heading State Legislative Sites, select State Statutes and Codes to be directed to the page that lists the states. Click on the state name to be linked to its code.

The Wirtz Labor Law Library state code collection includes: Arizona, California, Delaware, DC, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Due to the proliferation of the WWW, and the codes also being available on Lexis and Westlaw, the books are no longer updated and the 14 state code sets are kept for historical research purposes.

• Cases and Codes is a page provided by Findlaw (http://www.findlaw.com) that links to federal and state laws. Scroll down the page until you reach the heading "US State Laws - Cases, Codes, Statutes and Regulations". Below this heading you will see a list of states. When you click on a state name, you are directed to a page that lists resources for that state. Links to the state constitution, bill information, state supreme court opinions, and other court decisions are provided.