Codification and Legal Services
Deliver accurate, defensible municipal code through expert-led review and proven editorial precision.
Take Control of Your Municipal Code with Confidence
Your Code of Ordinances is enforceable by law. When updates are inconsistent or reviews lack structure, municipalities risk outdated language, compliance gaps, and legal exposure.
CivicPlus® Municode Codification provides attorney-led review and disciplined codification services that help local government teams keep their code organized, aligned with state law, and legally defensible.
Supported by purpose-built software, the result is a code that is organized, current, and defensible. This gives clerks, attorneys, and administrators confidence that newly adopted legislation is accurately reflected and ready to withstand scrutiny.
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Codification
Create a clear, organized, and legally defensible Code of Ordinances with comprehensive codification services. Each project includes attorney-led legal review for municipal code, standardized formatting, and detailed cross-referencing to maintain clarity and consistency. The result is a legally sound foundation your municipality can confidently rely on.
Recodification
Modernize outdated or inconsistently maintained municipal codes with expert recodification services. Comprehensive legal analysis and structural reorganization incorporate newly adopted legislation while resolving redundancies, conflicts, and outdated provisions. The result is a clean code aligned with current law and best practices.
Legal Review
Delivered as part of codification and republication services, legal review provides attorney-led analysis to align your code with state law, resolve conflicts, and strengthen defensibility. This structured legal review for municipal code helps ensure consistency, clarity, and long-term compliance.
Supplementation (Full-Service or Self-Service)
Choose full-service or self-service municipal code supplementation to keep your code current. Our editorial and legal team can manage incorporation and quality control, or your staff can use structured tools within our software to maintain accuracy standards while managing updates internally.
Republication
Refresh and modernize the presentation of your Code of Ordinances. Professional formatting prepares your municipal code for digital and print distribution while improving clarity and accessibility, supporting online municipal code publishing
State Law Referencing and State Linking (Full-Service)
Align your local ordinances with evolving state requirements through attorney-guided analysis and precise statutory citations. Where available, state law referencing is directly linked to applicable statutes, giving your community clear visibility into how local code connects to and is impacted by state law.
Keep Your Code Legally Sound
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When integrated with CivicPlus solutions, codification services and software become part of a complete legislative ecosystem, enabling seamless integration across agenda management, municipal websites, and community development workflows.
Agenda and Meeting ManagementPush legislation in real time from inside your agenda and meetings solution and enable immediate access to meeting content. Learn More
Municipal WebsitesProvide residents with seamless access to a fully searchable online code directly from your municipal website. Learn More
Community Development Allow staff to reference municipal code during permitting, inspecting, and enforcement to support faster, more accurate decisions. Learn More
What Our Customers Are Saying
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Kyle Box
City Operations Director
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CivicPlus acquired Municode in 2021. Today, Municode solutions, including its Codification services, are part of the CivicPlus Civic Experience Platform.
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I cannot say enough nice things about [CivicPlus]. From their code attorneys to their account managers, I have had nothing but top-rate customer service. The ease and speed of searching through ordinances, and the overall functionality of the [Online Code Hosting system] and all of its’ capabilities, is such a welcomed, and time-saving resource to have.
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Jenny Johns
City Auditor
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The biggest benefit Seattle found was the ability for its community to access its code on any device and on its own terms.
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Austin, Texas needed to migrate its code of ordinances and ten other publications online, so it turned to the leaders in codification services.
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Santa Rosa County wanted to empower residents to access its code of ordinances online, so it turned to CivicPlus (formerly Municode).
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Frequently Asked Questions About Codification & Legal Services
What does municipal codification include?
Municipal codification includes organizing legislation of a general and permanent nature into a structured Code of Ordinances, conducting attorney-led legal review for municipal code, and applying consistent cross-referencing and formatting. These codification services help ensure your code is accurate, searchable, and easy for your local government to maintain.
How often should a municipal code be reviewed?
How does this reduce legal risk?
Municode Codification
Protect the Integrity of Your Municipal Code
I think, hands down, with [CivicPlus], the codification services provided are second to none. You also get a lot of those extra features — one of my favorites being the ability to use the municipal research tool where I can go back and look at what other cities in Minnesota are doing and more.