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Scope and Content Note
This series consists of the administrative subject files of the Office for Local Government. The records document the activities of the office in carrying out its broad mandate of strengthening local government. Topics represented in the series include the creation and reorganization of the Office for Local Government; the Fire Prevention Code; laws such as the Executive Law, General Municipal Law, Town and Village Law, and the Volunteer Firefighters Benefit Law; and the drafting of constitutional amendments and articles such as the Home Rule Amendment.
Record types include incoming and outgoing correspondence from local government officials; text of codes, ordinances, and laws related to local government; publications; reports; drafts of constitutional amendments; and legal memorandums.
The New York State Archives is part of the Office of Cultural Education, an office of the New York State Education Department.
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