Things Are Looking Up in Clerk's Office

So your neighbors have a yard full of ragweed, you are sneezing nonstop and they don’t care.

There ought to be a law!

Guess what, the city does have a law prohibiting ragweed and now you can look it up and get a copy in the City Clerk’s office, where renovations include access to a computer with the entire Municipal Code online. The innovation is intended in part to cut down on Open Public Records Act requests, in which a member of the public fills out a form and waits several days for a response. Now that is nothing to sneeze at!

The Municipal Code is also the definitive place to get backup on laws governing housing conditions, licenses and permits, animal control, City Council rules, recalls of elected officials and much more. For example, did you know landlords are supposed to supply heat from Oct. 1 to May 1 in Plainfield? A copy of the heat ordinance can settle an argument on that issue.

--Bernice