Chapter 6: Statutes Research

One statute’s path from enactment through slip law and session laws to the code — and the comparison that decides where research happens: bare text versus the annotated code’s research hub.

Three finding aids — Popular Name Table, subject Index, and conversion table — each matched to what you already know about a law.

Arizona's occupational-disease statute, read for one question at a time: navigate the chapter's table of contents, follow the cross-reference to the definition that controls, and recognize the subsections written for a different reader.

Find an answer in a section's table of contents, read what a statute's status means for your research, and match a finding aid to what you know.