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With the advent of regulatory law the legal codes are no longer the full story. It’s quite possible they are decisions of a regulatory body which will not show

With the advent of regulatory law the legal codes are no longer the full story. It’s quite possible they are decisions of a regulatory body which will not show up in statute.

jcranmer 8y ago
Even if it's supposed to be a regulation (which, given the claim that these are really old laws still on the books, is unlikely), regulations are still public, citable documents that are relatively easy to track down.
- StanislavPetrov 8y ago
  Public and online are two different and unrelated things. Regulations that are dozens or hundreds of years old aren't easy to track down. Many large counties and towns here in New York don't have any of their records or regulations online at all. I recently had to go down to my (NY) town's city hall and pay with a paper check (the only accepted form of payment) to get a copy of my original land survey.
  - jcranmer 8y ago
    Here is a link to the code of NYC that took me about 30 seconds to track down: http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/New%20York/admin/newyorkcityadministrativecode?f=templates$fn=default.htm$3.0$vid=amlegal:newyork_ny http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/New%20York/admin/... (I went via https://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/4080/nyc-charter-laws-codes-and-rules https://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/4080/nyc-charter-...). Even my dinky little town in Massachusetts has a PDF of all of its regulations. Again, note that many of the apocryphal stories about "weird laws still on the books" refer not to small cities, but the kind of large, old cities whose laws are easily accessible via the web.
    - StanislavPetrov 8y ago
      The umbrella code of NYC is only a fraction of the regulations and codes that are on the books in every borough, town, municipality and numerous agencies in NYC. https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/newyork-in-depth/local-governments https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/newyork-in-depth/local-gove...

With the advent of regulatory law the legal codes are no longer the full story. It’s quite possible they are decisions of a regulatory body which will not show up in statute.

jcranmer 8y ago

Even if it's supposed to be a regulation (which, given the claim that these are really old laws still on the books, is unlikely), regulations are still public, citable documents that are relatively easy to track down.

StanislavPetrov 8y ago
Public and online are two different and unrelated things. Regulations that are dozens or hundreds of years old aren't easy to track down. Many large counties and towns here in New York don't have any of their records or regulations online at all. I recently had to go down to my (NY) town's city hall and pay with a paper check (the only accepted form of payment) to get a copy of my original land survey.
- jcranmer 8y ago
  Here is a link to the code of NYC that took me about 30 seconds to track down: http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/New%20York/admin/newyorkcityadministrativecode?f=templates$fn=default.htm$3.0$vid=amlegal:newyork_ny http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/New%20York/admin/... (I went via https://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/4080/nyc-charter-laws-codes-and-rules https://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/4080/nyc-charter-...). Even my dinky little town in Massachusetts has a PDF of all of its regulations. Again, note that many of the apocryphal stories about "weird laws still on the books" refer not to small cities, but the kind of large, old cities whose laws are easily accessible via the web.
  - StanislavPetrov 8y ago
    The umbrella code of NYC is only a fraction of the regulations and codes that are on the books in every borough, town, municipality and numerous agencies in NYC. https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/newyork-in-depth/local-governments https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/newyork-in-depth/local-gove...