Federal Rules and Regulations in Paper

    Administrative agencies of the government of the United States (e.g., Department of Commerce) are required by law to publish the rules and regulations they issue. All regulations in force are organized by subject in 50 titles and published annually in the
Code of Federal Regulations (M-N-2).  A separate volume in the set indexes the rules and regulations by subject and agency. 

    About one fourth of CFR titles are revised every three months, so, at any given date, some titles in the CFR will be fairly current while others will be rather out of date.  In order to determine if a particular rule found in the CFR has been revised or additional rules on the subject have been issued since the relevant CFR title was published, use the List of CFR Sections Affected which is shelved to the left of the CFR.  This will refer you to a volume and page in the Federal Register in which any new rule affecting the old rule has been printed.

    Proposed rules and adopted rules are printed every business day in the Federal Register (M-N-2 for the current year; S-S-3 for older issues).  Each daily issue has a table of contents arranged by agency, and there is a monthly cumulative index listing all of the documents issued by each agency in that month. 

Wyoming Rules and Regulations in Paper

    Wyoming does not have an official equivalent of the Federal Register or  the Code of Federal Regulations for state regulations. However, we have on reserve two commercial publications that perform most of those functions for Wyoming.  Weil’s Wyoming Government Register (Reserve/Wyoming) is a monthly compilation of emergency rules, notices of proposed rule making, and other agency information. 

    Weil’s Code of Wyoming Rules (Reserve/ Wyoming), is a loose-leaf compilation of administrative rules in force.  It is organized according to issuing agency (e.g., Department of Transportation), but the publisher has added indexes by subject, rule number, and statutory authority.  There is also a preface and user’s guide at the beginning of each volume.

Regulations Online

     Visit http://www.ecfr.gpoaccess.gov  for access to The Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register online.

     For Wyoming regulations online, visit the Wyoming Secretary of State's web site at  http://soswy.state.wy.us.   The rules can be viewed or downloaded. 

Regulations from other state regulations can be accessed free at http://www.findlaw.com or http://www.statelocalgov.net. 

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