ordinance codification

A separate but important aspect of our business involves community ordinance codification. For the past eleven years, Technical Publication Associates, Inc. has been providing codification services to municipalities. We work with the city clerk and your attorney to compile all the current ordinances, updates, and changes to produce electronic and paper copies of your ordinances. Our attention to detail allows us to provide complete, accurate volumes of community ordinances in an organized and timely manner..

We have also been able to assist municipalities in the conversion of their paper based municipal codes into an electronic file format. This conversion creates municipal code statutes which can be readily searched by (1) topic, (2) keyword or number, and/or (3) date. An electronic ordinance book allows the user to quickly print individual pages (eliminates photocopying), find the number of times a topic or word appears throughout the code book, and can reduce printing costs by using an electronic book instead of the traditional printed book. This conversion has allowed cities, towns, and villages to update and publish their laws on a timely basis and make that information readily available on their web sites within hours of there acceptance..

We can develop ordinance books for small communities or large cities. Therefore, regardless of the size of community you represent, we can help provide easy access to the ordinances that affect your local citizens.

If you would like to discuss the codification of your records, and/or conversion of your records to an electronic format, at no obligation, please feel free to email me at tpainc@mtco.com or contact me by phone at 309-263-8792. Thank you for your interest in allowing TPA to serve your needs.

Steve Nichol, President.

recently the Village of Morton wrote, "with our previous codifier the turnaround time for printed ordinance changes was approximately 10 to 12 weeks. using TPA has reduced our turnaround time to 3 weeks. tpa also makes corrections quickly and accurately."