| Building Code of the City of New York |
| A web version of New York City's Building Code from the Department of Buildings. |
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| Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| The BJS publishes most of its reports on its WWW pages as well as in print. Statistics are maintained in the areas of law enforcement, prosecution, courts and sentencing, corrections (including capital punishment), and expenditure and employment. |
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| E.Courts |
| E.Courts, a service of the New York State Unified Court System, makes available information on hundreds of thousands of court cases in New York Courts, search Supreme Court Calendars or find the next court appearance in a criminal case. In several counties, cases can be filed on the Internet. CaseTrac a new fee-based service allows users to track specific cases online. |
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| FindLaw Court Forms |
| Federal and State court forms available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). |
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| FindLaw: State Resources |
| Comprehensive listing of state legal resources including the usual materials like court decisions and state codes but includes other materials such as directories for state bar associations, law schools and expert witnesses. |
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| Fund for Modern Courts |
| A nonpartisan, nonprofit, statewide court reform organization striving to improve the judicial system in New York State; the site includes Court Monitoring reports, Citzens Jury Project reports, and a guide to judicial selection in New York State. |
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| Guide to Law Online: States and Territories |
| The Law Library of Congress' online guide to the Constitution, Executive, Judiciary, Legislature, Legal Guides and General Sources for all states and territories in the U.S. |
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| Legal Information Institute: New York Court of Appeals Collection |
| Decisions of the highest court of New York State are available online within a day of their being handed down. This collection also includes archived decisions from 1990 forward. Search by date and topic. |
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| Legal Information Institute: New York Legal Materials |
| Constitution and Legislation, judicial decisions, regulations and other agency material, along with other state legal resources for New York State listed on Cornell Law School's web site. |
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| Legal Information Institute: State Legal Materials |
| The LII collection of state legal materials presents Internet-accessible sources of state constitutions, statutes, judicial opinions, and regulations for the fifty states, plus D.C., and the U.S. territories and affiliated jurisdictions. An interesting feature included is the ability to look up state statutes by topic. |
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| Municipal Codes on the Internet |
| City and county codes online, organized alphabetically by state. Some available for purchase only. |
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| New York City Council |
| Web site for New York City Council, lawmaking body of the City which also monitors the operation and performance of city agencies, makes land use decisions and has sole responsibility for approving the city's budget. This site includes a searchable database of NYC local laws back to 1990, and Council official reports and hearings. |
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| New York State Assembly |
| New York State Assembly website provides a directory to members, bill search and legislative information, live coverage of assembly sessions, legislative reports, rules, kids page, calendars, and more. The New York State Constitution, New York State Consolidated Laws and New York State Unconsolidated Laws are available at this site.
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| New York State Tenants' Rights Guide |
| Information about the laws affecting rental housing from the Office of the State Attorney General.
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| New York State Unified Court System |
| New York State Unified Court System's site with a comprehensive Courts page delineating the history and structure of the State's court system with many decisions (civil and criminal), forms, and reports available online. An alphabetical county listing of Public Access Law Libraries is included. |
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| NYS Unified Court System - Public Access Law Libraries |
| A list of public access law libraries arranged by New York State county. |
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| Penal Law: a Web |
| Markus Dirk Dubber, Professor of Law & Director, Buffalo Criminal Law Center, SUNY Buffalo, School of Law uses the web to explore modern penal law in attempt to reform its teaching, scholarship, and practice. Discussions of Constitutional Criminal Law and an Overview of American Criminal Law are included along with New York State penal law online (with links to statutes, cases and annotations and court decisions) and an international penal code comparison. |
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| Seattle Public Library: Selected Web Sites: Municipal Codes |
| Links to city and county codes available for unrestricted searching on the World Wide Web. |
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