What citation format does this tool generate?

It formats citations according to Bluebook Rule 12.9.2 for local ordinances, rendering them as City, State, Code Name § Section (Year).

Which municipal code publishers are supported?

It supports standard structures from Municode (CivicPlus), American Legal Publishing, eCode360 / General Code, and self-hosted municipal repositories.

How does the tool detect potential renumbering?

It scans parsed citations within each chapter for sequence gaps, descending section order, and duplicates, which often occur after recent recodifications.

What are the limits for live link verification?

You can verify up to 10 deep links per run, which are fetched sequentially with an 8-second timeout and polite request spacing.

Does this tool replace official municipal code repositories?

No, it is a research and citation validation aid. Always confirm citations against the official hosted code before filing.

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US Municipal Code Citation Link Checker & Renumbering Detector (Municode / American Legal / eCode360)

Parse Title/Chapter/Article/Section/Subsection/Appendix municipal code citations, generate Bluebook Rule 12.9.2 legal citations, detect renumbering after recent ordinances (gaps, duplicates, out-of-order sections), and optionally live-verify hosted deep links.

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How it works: (1) every pasted line is parsed into its five-level structure — § / Sec. / Chapter / Article / Title / Appendix tokens plus (a)(1)(A) subsection chains; (2) citations are grouped per chapter and scanned for sequence gaps (2-14 followed by 2-16 with no 2-15), duplicated section numbers, and descending order — the classic residue of a recodification or recent renumbering ordinance; (3) each valid cite is rendered as a Bluebook Rule 12.9.2 citation (ordinances are cited analogously to statutes: City, State abbrev., Code name § section (code year), with small-caps styling); (4) optional live verification fetches pasted deep links (≤10, 1.1 s apart, 8 s timeout, identified User-Agent) — a page that loads but no longer contains the cited section number in its text is flagged as a likely renumbering symptom. This is a research aid; always confirm against the official hosted text before filing.

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