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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Ind. Law - Warning to those who rely on the online Indiana Administrative Code
On June 4th the ILB published a warning, titled "Warning to those who rely on the online Indiana Administrative Code." I'm posting that warning again today.
As of this writing, the online Indiana Administrative Code has not been updated since Oct. 18th. The online IAC now includes this warning:
The versions of Indiana Administrative Code sections appearing in this archive are NOT necessarily the most recent versions of these sections. Please go to the "Latest Update" link to the IAC to see the most recently posted version.However, when you use the "Latest Update" link, you go are led right back to the Oct. 18th version!
A number of major changes affecting a large body of Indiana law and those impacted by it have been made by the General Assembly's Legislative Services Agency (LSA) since the end of the 2006 session. Little, if any, word of these changes has been communicated to the world outside the Statehouse.
So if you are an alert reader, you will recognize when you look for the latest rules on a topic that the online Indiana Administrative Code (IAC) is not up-to-date. So what do you do then? There is no printed version, the LSA abolished that several years ago.
What about the Indiana Register, the printed monthly periodical that kept the IAC up-to-date? Gone. The LSA abolished it several years ago.
But wasn't it still online? Yes it was, but the LSA eliminated the online Indiana Rules Tracker the end of June.
Where is all this explained? What is your regular person, or even your non-rules specialist lawyer, to do?
Beats me.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 14, 2006 12:25 PM
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