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Jenkins On Your Desktop: NCCUSL Library Now Available on HeinOnline

We're starting the New Year with new content on HeinOnline!

Check out the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws Library. The NCCUSL drafts and proposes uniform state laws. Subject areas include commercial law, domestic relations law, healthcare, real estate, and more. Uniform laws adopted in Pennsylvania include the Uniform Condominium Act, Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act, Uniform Fiduciaries Act, and Uniform Trade Secrets Act, among others.

The NCCUSL Library on HeinOnline includes the full text of over 250 Model Acts drafted, recommended, or endorsed by the Conference, as well as all available transcripts of the discussions of the Committee of the Whole of each Uniform and Model Act. These prior drafts and transcripts may be helpful when investigating the intent of a particular section of a model act.

To access this library, use your last name and member number to log into Jenkins' website. From either the Member Center or the list of Member Databases, select HeinOnline. Once in Hein, from the Subscribed Libraries list on the left side select National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

To search this collection, click on the Search tab below the HeinOnline logo. The search box will appear on the left side of the screen. This basic search will search all of the NCCUSL subject areas. To limit the search to a specific subject, click on the plus sign next to the subject and use the "Search This Subject" box. 

For more search tips, including how to search phrases and use Boolean operators, see HeinOnline's Advanced Search Syntax Guidelines.

HeinOnline is a membership resource available to most Jenkins members.

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