Title
Ordinance enacting a code of ordinances for Lake County revising, amending, restating, codifying and compiling certain existing general ordinances of Lake County.
Staff Summary
* For 70 plus years Lake County has been enacting codes and ordinances. Up to this point, these codes and ordinances have been maintained by independent departments and offices. It is common practice for governments to codify their ordinances in an effort to make them more easily viewable to the public.
* The purpose of codification is to compile all of the codes into one document, adopt uniform formatting, provide referencing between complimentary codes, and to create a digital code book that is accessible from the website and easier for our customers to use.
* Lake County issued an RFP and contracted with American Legal Publishing to review codes, digitize the older paper codes, and develop a draft codified ordinance. The draft code was then reviewed multiple times by each department, office or agency and also by the State's Attorney's Office.
* This action compiles existing codes and does not change the law or legal content or effect of the existing code. This action accepts and approves the digital code provided by American Legal, ratifies all code changes passed by the board from May of 2014 through January of 2015, and requests American legal codify those codes and incorporate them into the final code to be published on the website.
* Here forward ordinances and amendments to ordinances will be incorporated into the digital code within days of passage and will be incorporated into the four printed copies a few times per year.
* The codified ordinance can be viewed online at:
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ORDINANCE ENACTING A CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR LAKE COUNTY REVISING, AMENDING, RESTATING, CODIFYING AND COMPILING CERTAIN EXISTING GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE LAKE COUNTY DEALING WITH SUBJECTS EMBRACED IN SUCH CODE OF ORDINANCE...
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