CRIV received a request from a County Law Library asking about the duplication of material in Uniform Commercial Code Reporting Service and Hawkland Uniform Commercial Code Series. CRIV contacted Anne Ellis and received the following information:
Thank you for contacting Thomson Reuters regarding the Uniform Commercial Code Reporting Service and Hawkland Uniform Commercial Code Series Local Code Variations pamphlets. UCC Local Code Variations provides attorneys with an efficient, effective way to research UCC section and subsection provisions as used in every state jurisdiction as differences in terms and language can be critical as well as subtle. Because of the critical importance of local differences and provisions, this material is provided to subscribers of both Uniform Commercial Code Reporting Service and Hawkland Uniform Commercial Code Series.
UCC Reporting Service is a full service title where the annual subscription charge covers numerous updates and reporters. Individual shipments are not priced separately to the customer and components are not available separately.
UCC Reporting Service publishes state code variations in two ways. Twice a year two pamphlet volumes are issued with the latest state code updates. This material is organized by state, with all variations from the UCC organized under each state heading. However attorneys access this information in different ways and so a separate pamphlet is issued each year called Local Code Variations which is organized by UCC section with all state variations listed under each Code section or subsection.
Because this information duplicates the state variations material but has a different organizational structure, the replacement charge for lost or damaged pamphlets is a minimal charge of $99. The Local Code Variations pamphlet is not available as a separate subscription.
Updates to Hawkland’s UCC Series are invoiced individually. The Local Code Variations pamphlet, provided as an integral part of the set, is priced individually.
Anne was also able to provide information to a follow up question “Is Thomson saying that the information is duplicated but the organization of information is different?”
The organization of the Local Code Variations pamphlets is the same for both Hawkland and UCC Reporting Service. The State Variations pamphlets for UCC Reporting Service contain the same basic information as the Local Code Variations pamphlets but are organized by state rather than Code section.
Thank you to Anne for her assistance in this matter.
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Michelle Cosby, CRIV Chair
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