Recodification of Ordinances

The Gary City Clerk is responsible for maintaining records and the printing of cumulative supplements to the code into permanent volumes. The last recodification was submitted by the former Gary City Clerk and adopted by the Gary Common Council in 1989. In 2006, our office enlisted the professional services of the Municipal Code Corporation and has been involved in a somewhat long and tedious process to recodify the Gary City Code of Ordinances.

On August 23, 2006, our office submitted more than one thousand two hundred and eighty-three (1,283) documents to Municipal Code Corporation for evaluation and overall organization in preparation for legal review.

On November 2, 2006, more than sixty-three (63) documents were submitted to Municipal Code Corporation which included ordinances and resolutions passed by the Gary Common Council since August, 2006. As recently as January 11, 2007, an additional forty-seven (47) documents passed by the Gary Common Council through December 31, 2006 were also submitted to Municipal Code Corporation.

Once the legal review is completed, we will receive a preliminary draft of the new code. Thereafter, we expect to schedule on-site conferences with members of the administration and other officials as necessary for departmental reviews and/or proposed changes.

As with this and other significant developments that have transpired in the Gary City Clerk's Office since my tenure, we operate through little or no fanfare. We are certainly proud of the fact that we have been successful in accomplishing so many of the challenging tasks that confront this office, and we look forward to the recodification yielding a product with a standard second to none.

Update

As of June 30, 2009, Municipal Code Corporation has reviewed almost 2,500 ordinances and resolutions for the City of Gary and has subsequently provided the Gary City Clerk's Office with the final proofs of the new Gary City Code. The proofs are currently being reviewed by the Clerk's attorney and upon the return of the proofs, any changes will be discussed for implementation before the Code receives its quality control review.