“The AALL conducted a 2007 survey that discovered that eight states and the District of Columbia refer lawyers and judges seeking the text of a law to official sources so different that the versions conflict. States that posted laws online only had no consistent way of maintaining older versions of an amended law or showing errors had been corrected.“

Finding Accurate Law Text Online Nearly Impossible, Panelists Say #ABAChicago | ABA Journal - Law News Now

Free online legal research is a wonderful thing. I still pay for a physical copy of the California Corporations Code (and keep all my copies from prior years) but go online exclusively for law on other states.  Scary to think that it might not be accurate!

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