The on-line Code has been prepared by Municipal Code Corporation which also maintains our hardcopy version. See the following instructions on how to use the on-line Code to find what you need. On-line help is available at any time while you're browsing.

Go to the Chesterfield County Code of Ordinances

If you wish, you can begin by visiting Municipal Code Corporation's home page at http://www.municode.com, and select the link to Municipal Codes of Ordinances, Minutes, Etc., (Codes Listed by State.)

Help Using Municode

Table of Contents Area

HTML and JAVA tabs: Two ways of navigating  library.municode.com

The HTML Table of Contents:

The HTML table of contents shows the name of the site and the first level of documents or folders in the site.

Within the HTML table of contents, not every heading corresponds to a document. Folder nodes can contain other folders or documents. To see a document, you must expand the table of contents until you see a document icon.

For example, click a folder icon to expand it and display the folders content. When you expand a branch of the table of contents, notice how the separator line moves and you see the children (below the line) of each parent node you click.

To navigate back up in the table of contents, click one of the folder icons above the separator line.

The Java Table of Contents

The other table of contents option is the Java table of contents. If your browser supports Java, you can switch to the Java table of contents by clicking the Java tab.

Click the plus icon to expand the headings. The Java table of contents does not have a separator line like the HTML table of contents and looks and feels very similar to Windows Explorer ®. You see the entire table of contents, which helps you to view the information in context.

Searching library.municode.com

Searching for content on library.municode.com, basically comprises four steps:

• Running a search
• Viewing the list of search results
• Selecting and viewing a document from the search results list
• Navigating the document you selected

On library.municode.com, there are three different ways that you can run a search. All searches start by typing what you want to search for into a search form. In short, a search form is a web page that contains one or more fields where you can type words/terms on which to search. The easiest and most readily accessible search form is the Search edit box, located at the top, middle-left of the site. This search form enables you to do a simple, keyword search on the sites content.

library.municode.com also comes with two other search forms for your use:

• Advanced Search
• Boolean Search

You can access these search forms using the Choose search form drop down list located next to the search edit box. Instructions for using these search functions are provided on the search pages.