Municipal Laws Online

Locating municipal laws online can be difficult.  Ordering hard copies can be slow and expensive.  Following is a list of online sources of municipal laws.

• Websites of individual municipalities
http://www.wowworks.com/wowcity/nycities.htm
• General Code
http://www.generalcode.com/webcode2.html#newy
• Municipal Code
http://www.municode.com/Resources/code_list.asp?stateID=32

The following websites do not contain codes of any New York State municipalities but do list municipal codes from other states.

• LexisNexis’s free website
http://municipalcodes.lexisnexis.com/

• American Legal Publishing
http://www.amlegal.com/library/

Lexis and Westlaw have limited libraries of municipal codes.  Westlaw’s Municipal Materials library includes Cleveland and New York City.