Tutorial:Maxis Ordinances

Maxis Ordinances
Benefits, detriments and costs
This list contains all ordinances defined by Maxis.
There are exactly 20 of them, and they are predefined in the game's exe file.
Thus, additional ordinances cannot be added, but the existing ones can be modded to a certain degree.

The ordinances are listed in alphabetical order by their exemplar names within SimCity_1.dat.
The name given for an ordinance is not necessarily the same as seen in game.
In the game they are given in LTEXT files separately for each language.

The number in front of an ordinance is the Instance ID of the ordinance exemplar (you won't need these numbers).
The Type ID and Group ID for all Ordinance Exemplars are 0x6534284A, 0xA9C2C209 (you won't need those either).

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C2BF1E04	Car Smogging
	Enactment Cost:	20 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	20 §	+ 0.005 § per person
	Air Pollution Effect:	0.90	(decreased by 10%)
	Mayor Rating:	-5
A2BF1DDC	Carpool Incentive
	Enactment Cost:	10 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	50 §	+ 0.010 § per person
A2BF1E43	Clean Air
	Enactment Cost:	20 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	20 §	+ 0.005 § per person
	Air Pollution Effect:	0.90	(decreased by 10%)
	I-D Demand Effect:	0.9967	(decreased by 0.33%)
00D0723D	CPR Training
	Enactment Cost:	10 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	50 §	+ 0.005 § per person
	Health Quotient Boost Effect:	110	(increased by 10%)
40D07236	Free Clinics
	Enactment Cost:	10 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	50 §	+ 0.005 § per 1 § funding of Medical Clinics
	Health Quotient Boost Effect:	110	(increased by 10%)
A0D07129	Gambling
	Enactment Cost:	0 §
	Retractment Cost:	20 §
	Monthly Income:	100 §
	Crime Effect:	1.20	(increased by 20%)
	Enables the Casino
815B4CEF	Junior Sports
	Enactment Cost:	20 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	100 §	+ 0.005 § per 1 § funding of Parks
	Crime Effect:	0.95	(decreased by 5%)
	Park required
22F6E80C	Landfill Gas Recovery
	Enactment Cost:	20 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	20 §	+ 0.001 § per person
	Air Pollution Effect:	0.97	(decreased by 3%)
	Landfill required
	Gas power plant required
62BF1DB9	Neighborhood Watch
	Enactment Cost:	10 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	10 §	+ 0.001 § per person
	Crime Effect:	0.95	(decreased by 5%)
	Police station required
E0D0722E	Nuclear Free Zone
	Enactment Cost:	10 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	50 §	+ 0.002 § per person
	I-Ag Demand Effect:	1.0033	(increased by 0.33%)
	I-Ht Demand Effect:	0.9983	(decreased by 0.17%)
	Mayor Rating:	+5
	Nuclear Plants unavailable
22F6E81B	Paper Reduction
	Enactment Cost:	20 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	20 §	+ 0.005 § per person
	Garbage Effect:	0.90	(decreased by 10%)
	Co§§ Demand Effect:	0.9967	(decreased by 0.33%)
	Co§§§ Demand Effect:	0.9983	(decreased by 0.17%)
82B9999B	Power Conservation
	Enactment Cost:	20 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	0 §	+ 0.005 § per person
	Power Reduction Effect:	0.90	(decreased by 10%)
	I-D Demand Effect:	0.9950	(decreased by 0.50%)
	I-M Demand Effect:	0.9950	(decreased by 0.50%)
	I-Ht Demand Effect:	0.9950	(decreased by 0.50%)
	Mayor Rating:	-10
E0D07233	Pro-reading campaign
	Enactment Cost:	10 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	20 §	+ 0.005 § per 1 § funding of Libraries
	School EQ Boost Effect:	110	(increased by 10%)
A2BF1DE5	Shuttle Service
	Enactment Cost:	20 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	20 §	+ 0.005 § per person
	Air Pollution Effect:	0.98	(decreased by 2%)
	R§ Travel Strategy:	85/15/0	(instead of 80/20/0) for MT/Cars/Fastest
	R§§ Travel Strategy:	35/0/65	(instead of 30/0/70) for MT/Cars/Fastest
	R§§§ Travel Strategy:	15/75/10	(instead of 10/80/10) for MT/Cars/Fastest
62BF1DAA	Smoke Detectors
	Enactment Cost:	10 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	0 §	+ 0.001 § per person
	Flammability Effect:	0.95	(decreased by 5%)
C2F6E81F	Tire Recycling
	Enactment Cost:	20 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	20 §	+ 0.001 § per person
	Garbage Effect:	0.97	(decreased by 3%)
62F6E7CF	Tourist Promotion
	Enactment Cost:	10 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	50 §	+ 0.005 § per 1 § funding of Landmarks
	Cs§ Demand Effect:	1.0033	(increased by 0.33%)
	Cs§§ Demand Effect:	1.0033	(increased by 0.33%)
	Cs§§§ Demand Effect:	1.0033	(increased by 0.33%)
42BF1E18	Trash Presorting
	Enactment Cost:	20 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	20 §	+ 0.003 § per 1 § funding of Recycling
	Garbage Effect:	0.97	(decreased by 3%)
	Recycling center required
02BF1DFA	Water Conservation
	Enactment Cost:	10 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	50 §	+ 0.005 § per person
	Water Use Reduction:	0.90	(decreased by 10%)
	I-Ag Demand Effect:	0.9917	(decreased by 0.83%)
	I-D Demand Effect:	0.9950	(decreased by 0.50%)
	I-M Demand Effect:	0.9967	(decreased by 0.33%)
	I-Ht Demand Effect:	0.9983	(decreased by 0.17%)
42BF1E18	Youth Curfew
	Enactment Cost:	10 §
	Retractment Cost:	10 §
	Monthly Cost:	40 §	+ 0.002 § per person
	Crime Effect:	0.95	(decreased by 5%)
	Mayor Rating:	-10

Note that the Mayor Rating, when decreased, are not percentages.
The Mayor Rating can be any value between 0 and 255.
A reduction of -5 means the Mayor Rating is decreased by exactly 5 (not 5%).

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At startup of a new city no ordinances are available until one month has elapsed.
After that month the following 16 ordinances become available:

• Car Smogging
• Carpool Incentive
• Clean Air
• CPR Training
• Free Clinics
• Gambling
• Nuclear Free Zone
• Paper Reduction
• Power Conservation
• Pro-reading campaign
• Shuttle Service
• Smoke Detectors
• Tire Recycling
• Tourist Promotion
• Water Conservation
• Youth Curfew

The remaining four ordinances all require certain buildings to be built first:

• Junior Sports (Park)
• Landfill Gas Recovery (Landfill + Gas Power Plant)
• Neighborhood Watch (Police Station)
• Trash Presorting (Recycling Center)

Two properties found in the ordinance exemplars are obviously unused:

• Year Available (0 for all, except 1970 for Power Conservation)
• Monthly Chance (0.005 for all ordinances)