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Hastings City staff outline large recodification to align city code with state and federal law
Summary
City staff presented a draft recodification of Hastings City code aimed at removing outdated language, resolving conflicts with state and federal statutes and updating job titles; the item was previously tabled and will return to the council agenda next week.
Jesse, a city staff member, told the Hastings City Council at a work session that the city has begun a large-scale recodification of the Hastings City Code to bring it into alignment with state and federal law and to remove outdated or conflicting provisions.
The update is intended to reduce internal conflicts in the code, update obsolete references and improve clarity for both city employees and residents, Jesse said. "It's just simply getting us mostly in compliance is really the goal of this," he said.
Jesse said the work was done in partnership with a third-party codification service (Municode) and that the full code runs more than 600 pages when…
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