New York State Agency Rules and Regulations Unofficial Text

An 84-volume, loose-leaf publication of all state agency rules, supplemented semi-monthly with new and amended text. The dataset provides external links to the unofficial online version of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR). It is maintained by the State of New York and was last updated in November 2024.

Use Cases

• Extract and analyze the text of specific regulations from the 84-volume NYCRR for legal research.
• Track changes to state agency rules by monitoring the semi-monthly supplements for new and amended text.
• Build a searchable index of the unofficial NYCRR online version using the provided external links.

Strengths

• Contains the full text of all state agency rules across 84 volumes.
• Updated semi-monthly with new and amended rules, ensuring regular maintenance.
• Managed by the authoritative State of New York organization.

Limitations

• Data is provided as external HTML links, requiring web scraping for structured analysis.
• The dataset is an unofficial version, which may not be the legally definitive source.
• No structured metadata (e.g., columns, row count) is provided, limiting direct computational use.

Provenance

Source

State of New York

Collection Method

Publication of the official 84-volume NYCRR with semi-monthly supplements; dataset provides links to the unofficial online version.

Time Range

Ongoing, with semi-monthly supplements.

Freshness

Semi-monthly updates; last updated November 2024.

Geography

State of New York, USA.