Parowan (Utah) Ordinances, 1892-

These ordinances are primarily arranged in chronological order by year, month, and day as passed by the council. The first four ordinance volumes on reel 1 are permanently bound record books. The record book format preserves the original chronological order of the records quite well. Beginning with the last volume on reel 1, however, ordinances were typed on separate sheets of paper and collected into three-ring binders. The binder format lends itself easily to disorder and ordinances after this point on the film can follow a variety of arrangements at various points, including topical and reverse chronological, though the overall arrangement is still predominantly chronological. Occasionally a topical arrangement will interrupt the normal chronological sequence where copies of revised ordinances were inserted after a previous version, or vise-versa. Such topical interpositions occur predominantly in the last volume of reel 1. The last two volumes on reel 1 contain a considerable

overlap for the period 1945, March-Feb 1964. The contents of each volume for this period are essentially the same, though there are a few ordinances in each which are absent in the other. In several places, a brief chronological span of ordinances was filmed out of sequence with the rest of the ordinances for that period and volume. Though the ordinances in the last volume on reel 1 proceed predominantly in normal chronological order by year, month, and day, occasionally ordinances for a particular year will appear in reverse chronological order by month and day. The binder marked "Ordinances for 1994-1999" on reel 2 actually begins July 1984 and overlaps with the untitled binder for 1982, Feb-Sept 1984 but contains no duplicate ordinances.