Urban Fellows

If you need to find information on cases, statutes, or regulations from another state and have no idea where to start, check out one of these sources:

The Law Library also has a print research guide for every state in the country. These print guides often include information not available in other sources, such as sources for historical information. For more information, stop by the Reference Desk.

Local ordinances are generally available online through the company that publishes them. Although Municode is the largest, it is not the only publisher of local ordinances.

A 50-State Survey is, at minimum, a listing of the laws on a particular topic in all states. Some surveys are only a list of the different state code sections, while others can contain detailed information on the content of the law, sometimes organized into charts that allow you to compare the laws of different states easily.