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The law of keeping: the Town Code, read for a preservation chapter

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AUDIT ROW #377 · THE PUBLISHED CODE SEARCHED BY CHAPTER AND KEYWORD · INDEX STRENGTH

Walkerton's Code of Ordinances, as published by American Legal Publishing, contains no historic-preservation chapter in the code as indexed — no commission, no landmark procedure, no design review. The code was read for the limb at the strength a published-code search gives: its chapters surface by number under the town's code library (among them Ch. 33 purchasing, Ch. 35 fees, Ch. 51 electric utility, Ch. 70 traffic, Ch. The negative is printed at index strength, with the official settler named exactly: the Clerk-Treasurer's official printed code, against which an unindexed ordinance would appear if one exists. What the absence means is practical, and the regime article at this section's end states it: in Walkerton, keeping is done by owners and by the historical society, under no local law at all.

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Source: The law of keeping: the Town Code, read for a preservation chapter, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/historic-preservation/law-of-keeping-the-town-code-read-for-a/