This handbook incorporates material from Suggested Rules of Procedure for Small Local Government Boards, though the two publications differ in significant ways. Intervening changes in the law have been taken into account. Many of the rules and the accompanying explanatory comments have been substantially rewritten. New rules have been added, and some rules have been eliminated, combined with other rules, or divided into separate rules. The goal throughout has been to make the rules even easier to understand and apply whenever possible.