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Acrobat Reader

You can download most of the legislation in PDF extent.
Therefore you need the program Acrobat Reader. You can download Acrobat Reader  for free.

Sound fragment

The meetings of the city council are voice recorded since march 2003. When there is a recording of a decision on regulation by the city council, you will find a hyperlink to the website with the voice recordings.

Actuality

New legislation will be added within five workdays.

Completeness

All legislation proclaimed by the city council as of 1 January 2005 and later is published on this website.
All general binding regulations of the city council can be found.

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Rights

The text of the legislation that is published exclusively on this website is free of author- and database rights.
The authors' rights rest in the remaining content of this website. Reuse is not permitted without explicit authorization. The same applies for the used techniques and illustrations.

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No translation

On this website the city of Stadskanaal (The Netherlands) publishes its complete legislation.
Because this legislation is only authorized in Dutch, no English translation will be available.

Accessibility

This is the first website of municipal authority in the Netherlands that complies to WCAG 1.0, conformance level double AA. 
Therefore this website is accessible for the disabled.

This is one of four websites  (16 August 2007) in the Netherlands that officially complies according to priority 1 and 2.

 

Web guidelines

This website is built according to the Guidelines for the accessibility and sustainability of government websites. 
and can be viewed on nearly all web browsers, including pda's or handheld devices.

 

Guaranty

This website is carefully composed.
The work process is checked by the Kema for ISO 9001:2000.
We aspire that the published legislation exactly corresponds with the official versions on paper.