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          | NY State Law & Government Last Updated: 7-1-2008
Legislative | Executive | Judicial | Legal Forms | Misc. NY Govt. Info. Note: for non-legal information about NY State, visit our NY State & NY City Information page. New York State Legislative InformationNew York State AssemblyNew York State SenateNew York State LawsProvides access to the New York statutes, bills and legislative resolutions. Click on "Laws of New York" under the Search heading to access the statutes. Provided through the New York State legislature. New York State Laws from FindlawFindlaw offers access to NY state laws and provides a keyword search feature in addition to browsing. The accuracy of this keyword search mechanism is unknown, but you can try it if you don't have access to any other service for searching NY statutes by keyword. Remember to keep an eye on how recently the statutes have been updated. New York State Assembly Legislative Information SystemIncludes access to New York bills (by keyword or bill number), legislative reports, legislative calendars and other information. Bills can also be searched through the newer New York State Legislature site. The Legislative History of a New York State Law: A Tutorial & Guide to Library SourcesA step-by-step guide to doing legislative history in New York, provided by the New York State Library. In addition to the tutorial, take a look at the separate page on legislative intent for additional helpful information. If you have access to Westlaw, many of the legislative documents mentioned in the tutorial are available in the NY-LH database (from 1996 on; check the database "i" link for complete coverage information). If you don't have access to Westlaw or your documents fall outside the time frame of that database, the only library in our area that has legislative bill jackets is the New York Public Library's Science, Business and Industry Library. New York State Executive Branch InformationOffice of the GovernorOffice of the New York State Attorney GeneralN.Y.C.R.R. - The New York (State) Code of Rules & RegulationsThis is the online version of the New York state administrative code. Unfortunately the table of contents is not linked, so the only way to search at the moment is to follow the links to natural language search box. There are also links to useful information about the N.Y. administrative rulemaking process on this site. New York State Administrative Rules - New York State RegisterProvided by the N.Y. Dept. of State's Division of Administrative Rules, this page contains links to the New York State Register, a weekly publication of state administrative rules. Issues going back to June 25, 2003 are currently online for free (use the links by year). Guide to New York State Agency Rules and RegulationsSome New York state agencies make their regulations available on the Internet through their Web sites. Links provided by the NY State Governor's Office of Regulatory Reform. New York Government AgenciesProvides links to Web sites of New York state, county and local government agencies. New York State Agency Web Sites & PublicationsContains links to New York State agency Web sites as well as publications provided through the N.Y. State Library. New York State Judicial InformationNew York State Unified Court SystemOfficial homepage of the New York State Court system. Includes links to homepages of some individual courts, selected court decisions, a guide to New York courts, selected court rules and legal forms (mostly family and surrogate's forms at this time). New York Court of Appeals HomepageIncludes court rules, information about the court and its judges, as well as recent decisions. New York Court of Appeals DecisionsIncludes decisions from 1990 - present. Several different searching options available. Provided by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell. New York Court of Appeals Records & Briefs - HeinOnlineContains records and briefs for cases reported beginning with 1 N.Y.3d. Available only to current CUNY School of Law students and faculty. New York Judicial DirectoryInformation about judges in New York state courts provided by the NYS Unified Court System. New York Criminal Jury InstructionsThis Internet version is now the official publication of NY Criminal Jury Instructions and replaces all previously published editions in print format. New York State Law Reporting BureauThis is the homepage of the bureau that prepares all N.Y. Court of Appeals, Appellate Division and selected lower court decisions for official publication. This site includes the Official Reports Style Manual, guidelines for how lower court cases are selected for publication and information on publications of the bureau. Unfortunately, the only way you can obtain officially published NY cases from this site is to pay for them. However, you can search the selected trial court slip opinions that have not yet been officially published for free. Public Access Law Libraries in New YorkCourtguide.comProvides information on individual courthouses in New York and a few other states, including travel directions, courthouse photos, courthouse and record room floor plans, directions on how to look up court records, and tutorials on using publicly available information systems at the courthouses. New York State Legal FormsFindlaw Court Forms for New York StateNew York State Unified Court System FormsMiscellaneous New York State Government InformationNew York State Official HomepageNew York State Association of CountiesFind county homepages and other information. General Statistical Sources: N.Y. City and StateA useful collection of statistical sources provided by Columbia University. Not all of the sources are available on the Web, but many are linked. |
