Sources of Regulatory Law (Federal and State)

For more information on legal citations, refer to Interpreting Legal Citations

CFR - Code of Federal Regulations
There are several ways to access this source:

Printed -- available in GPML Documents Reference

ProQuest Congressional

Choose regulations

• CFR via GPO access (includes historical issues from 1996 - present)
• Cornell's Interface to CFR on GPO; CFR Index by Section Headings

LexisNexis Academic

Federal Register

Federal Register is published daily and is the source where federal agencies announce proposed and final rules. Several sources for the FR:

Printed -- current year

• available in GPML Documents Reference, earlier available in microform from 1936
• via Internet -
  

Hein Online

GPO since 1994

ProQuest Congressional

from 1980

Campus Research: Law

From July, 1980

Regulations.gov

On this site, you can find, review, and submit comments on Federal documents that are open for comment and published in the Federal Register, the Government’s legal newspaper.  As a member of the public, you can submit comments about these regulations, and have the Government take your views into account.

Law reviews available in

Campus Research: Law

Homepages of the Federal Agencies

• Most of the agencies have a law and regulation section linking to the laws they enforce and the regulations they write.  This page contains links to all the Federal Agencies.

COMAR - Code of Maryland Regulations

 Ways to access:

• COMAR Online
• Printed -- available in GPML Documents Reference printed -- available in GPML Documents Reference

LexisNexis State Capital

Campus Research: Law

Maryland Register (Six most current issues)
       Also available  in print in GPML Documents Reference

Regulations for other States

LexisNexis State Capital

Campus Research: Law