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This tool can’t make the law findable. It makes the search as short as it can currently be — and counts what still can’t be found. Nothing you tap here is stored or sent anywhere; the only thing we ever ask you to share is how the search went, at the end, anonymously, if you choose. Why the search is like this at all: Who Can Read the Law?
What do you have?
A topic — “grazing,” “my job,” “elections,” “a contract” → A resolution number — like CO-50-14 → A Code section — like 2 N.N.C. § 223 → Just show me every door →Pick the closest topic
Contracts & bidding → My job — employment rights → Ethics & officials’ conduct → Health care → Grazing · land · inheritance · elections · chapters → Something else →Contracts & bidding
Good news — this one is readable. 2 N.N.C. §§ 223–225 cover bidding, the 20% change-order cap, filing, and the public’s right to see the contract (§ 225’s access language is verified verbatim). Start with the Title 2 & 26 lesson, then the published Code online for the 2009 text. Post-2009 changes: check the amendment summary. Want to use it? Ask to see a contract →
Employment rights
The NPEA lives at 15 N.N.C. §§ 601–612 — readable in the 2009 Code online, explained in the NPEA lesson. Two honest cautions: this site has not checked §§ 601–612 against post-2009 amendments, and the Labor Commission’s decisions — the rulings that define “just cause” — are not published anywhere. Case gone quiet? Demand a status →
Ethics & officials’ conduct
The Ethics in Government law sits at 2 N.N.C. §§ 3744–3784 — in the 2009 Code online, explained in Ethics & Rules, explained. Witness protection is § 3767, on the books since 1988. Filing something? The Right Door →
Health care
This one is the proof that the published Code misleads: it still shows “Division of Health” (§§ 1601–1606), but Resolution CO-50-14 (2014) — hosted here — rewrote those sections and created the Department of Health. Read the resolution, then the Healthcare Article for the whole picture including P.L. 93-638.
The honest answer first
FINDING
These topics live in the five Titles — 3, 8, 11, 16, 26 — that appear in the published Code’s table of contents and were never printed in it. You are not failing to find them. They cannot be found in the published Code.
What exists anyway: for chapters, the Local Governance Act’s text is posted as a standalone document by the Division of Community Development, and the LGA lesson explains it. For elections, always use the Navajo Election Administration for anything that affects your vote. For grazing, land, and inheritance: ask the office handling your matter, in writing, to cite the provision or resolution it relies on — and look that resolution up on DiBB. An office that cannot name its rule has answered a different question.
The demand this dead end points at: publish the Titles — fix #1, and the Law Ledger keeps the score.
Something else
Three moves, in order: search this site (the search box knows every lesson and every law we’ve verified); scan the Law Ledger for the nearest law; and if you know roughly when a rule was made, hunt the resolution on DiBB by year. If all three fail, that’s a finding — tell us below.
You have a resolution number — the best case
Go to DiBB, the Office of Legislative Services’ public site: generate a report or search, and you can view and download the legislation itself. Decoder: the last two digits are the year (CO-50-14 = 2014); the letters mark the Council session — CJA January, CAP April, CJY July, CO October, CD December (final-action dates can drift a little). One resolution this site hosts directly, if that’s the one you’re after: CO-50-14, the Department of Health Act.
You have a Code section
Three steps, honestly labeled: 1. Read the section in the published Code online — knowing it’s the 2009 text. 2. Check the amendment summary (2014–present) for resolutions touching your Title — then pull any hit on DiBB. 3. Know the gap: 2010–2013 has no index — and one verified trap: §§ 1601–1606 were rewritten by CO-50-14 and the Code never caught up. Every section cited on this site carries its status automatically — the Ledger is the map.
Every door, one list
OFFICIAL SOURCE
The published Code online (2009 text) · the amendment summary (2014–present, numbers only) · DiBB (legislation by number, year, committee, sponsor — and public comment) · the courts (selected resolutions and Supreme Court opinions) · the Diné Nihi Kéyah Project (informal post-2009 index by law students) · and this site’s Law Ledger. What none of them is: one current, complete, findable body of law — why →
How did it go?
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And if the search shouldn’t be this hard: it shouldn’t. The fix is a budget line →