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State and Local Government

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. (LLDC). 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, LLDC has provided a list of additional resources for state government information or state legislative research.
  • Full-text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet is a resource on Prairienet. Prairienet is a community resource maintained by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The states are listed alphabetically with links to state constitutions, statutes, legislation, session laws, codes, registers and regulations where applicable.
  • State and Local Government on the Net also provides an alphabetical list of the states. When you click on the state name, you will go 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 Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School. 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. LLI 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.
  • Cases and Codes at http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/ is a page from Findlaw (http://www.findlaw.com) that provides access to federal and state laws. When you click on US State Laws at http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/, you will access a list of resources for each state with links to the state constitution, bill information, state supreme court opinions, and other court decisions.

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