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There appears to be some character encoding issues in some of the .txt files that would probably get fixed by switching to utf8. Further more it would allow to support other languages (such as Spanish) more easily

Consider xml or json document format

This would allow another city to re purpose the project.

Is there solr search engine support here? I noticed they are using in the openstates development thread.

In the .txt file I'm getting:

SEC. 8.08. ENFORCEMENT OF ARTICLE � RULES AND REGULATIONS.

But in the website I'm getting:

§ 8.08 ENFORCEMENT OF ARTICLE – RULES AND REGULATIONS.

Notice the hyphen.

You are probably aware, but the business code has charter code mixed in with it.

Why did code updates end in March, 2014? Was a decision made to stop updating this repository? Should that be noted in the readme and http://open.innovatesf.com/openlaw/?

Amazing work thus far.

Comment: from looking through this, the RTF format doesn't seem nearly as valuable as the TXT files. Viewing them online or in any standard text editor isn't formatted so there is a lot of gibberish involved. But I suppose if they're provided anyway it might prove useful to someone..

Also, as this exists on the American Legal website in HTML, is there a potential plan to have that HTML be provided here? The advantage being that the HTML can easily be parsed into the Articles, Sections, citations, etc. Thanks!