Codification

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Re-Codification Practices

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Codify in 10 Days or Less at Your Current Cost or Lower—Guaranteed!

Traditional Codification Practices are Antiquated

It's time for something better

Typical codification practices for manual review, stakeholder coordination, legal compliance, formatting complexities, and ongoing maintenance can lead to inefficiencies, delays, inaccuracies, and difficulties in keeping a code of ordinances up to date. Take a look at the comparison between traditional practices and codification with enCodePlus.

TRADITIONAL CODIFICATION PRACTICES

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CODIFICATION WITH ENCODEPLUS

Streamline the Re-Codification Process with enCodePlus

Comprehensive Code Review: enCodePlus conducts a thorough audit of the existing code, identifying outdated provisions, inconsistencies, conflicts, and gaps that need to be addressed during the re-codification process.

Reorganization and Reformatting: The software streamlines the reorganization and reformatting of the code, ensuring a clear and logical structure. It assists in restructuring sections, renumbering provisions, and updating cross-references to improve the usability of the revised code.

 

Legal Compliance Assurance: enCodePlus helps address legal challenges during re-codification by conducting a retroactive review of adopted legislation, addressing ambiguities and inaccuracies, and ensuring constitutional and due process compliance.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement: The software facilitates collaboration among stakeholders, such as legal experts, department heads, elected officials, and the public, during the re-codification process. It provides a platform for input, feedback, and consensus-building to ensure the revised code meets the needs and goals of the community.

Take Control of Your Code

Self-publish in house with our Codification Wizard

Our stress-free, fill-in-the-blank codification wizard makes it easy to draft, publish and update your code in-house and in real time.

No more waiting for third parties to publish it for you!

Simply enter the ordinance number and effective date, add notes and even upload the signed ordinance or link to other online tools such as Legistar or Laserfiche.

Our automated tools make it simple and efficient. The Microsoft Word-style editor feels familiar. It has all the essentials for document maintenance along with some much-needed enhancements.

EFFICIENT COLLABORATION

Collaboration is easy. Use track changes to draft, review, and comment on text amendments. Export sections for presentation to others. When drafting is complete, simply accept the red-line edits, add your history notes, and publish it to the web.

CLEAR ORGANIZATION

Historic record keeping and legislative research are a cinch with our auto-generated amendment history table.

ACCESSIBLE ARCHIVES

Each ordinance and amendment is archived in the cloud for intuitive search and retrieval. Simply select an ordinance from the dropdown list or use the calendar widget to recall the full version of the code of ordinances that existed on that date.

Previous versions of each document are easily identified with a watermark and date notation. Quickly jump to the current version with in-page controls.

SIMPLE SUPPLEMENTATION

Make updates in real time – completely paper-free – or you export and print when hard copies are needed.

INTEGRATION WITH ZONING REGULATIONS

You can fully integrate your code of ordinances with plans, design guidelines, engineering specifications, handbooks and manuals. All document types can be published seamlessly, together in one place… cross-referenced and hyperlinked for easy access and comprehensive research.

POP-UP DEFINITIONS

Clarify technical terms with interactive pop-up definitions. Add keywords and categories to sections of the code for optimized search results.

LEGAL COMPLIANCE ASSURANCE

Plus, our expert, in-depth legal review ensures that you’re in perfect compliance with legal requirements. Our in-state attorneys are always current with local legislation and statute changes.

Codify in 10 Days or Less at Your Current Cost or Lower—Guaranteed!

Want to Streamline Codification?

WE CAN HELP!

Routine tasks should be simple and quick. Take advantage of the latest technology to automate manual entry and eliminate human error. Replace paper with searchable digital supplements. Reduce the turnaround from weeks or months to a very few days.

 

Why enCodePlus?

Our team of planning experts and former government staff has been in your shoes and we understand your challenges. We developed a municipal government software platform with powerful capabilities and the flexibility to customize features according to the unique needs of individual communities. We built enCodePlus for you!

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