Find your city on the map. See what’s required.
Every state is clickable.
Every state is clickable.
✦ How it works
Tell us where you operate. Melly’s does the rest, and keeps doing it.
Every city and state where you run a kitchen, a store or a building.
List every location, even the ones you think are fine. Rules change city by city.
Where do you operate?
Find it on the map ↑The rule for each location, in plain English, with the dates that matter.
We match every location to its state and city rules and send you one page: what’s required, who it covers, and the next deadline.
No legal reading on your end. Places without a law yet go on our watch list.
The filing, the hauling and the records, done and kept current.
We take over the paperwork and the pickup. When a rule changes, we update your setup before it catches you out.
✦ Find your law
A plain-English guide for every law we track.
The other 31 states have no state law yet. We’re watching them.
See every state →✦ Straight answers
As of October 14, 2026: 11 have a statewide law in force for businesses (counting DC), 1 has passed a law that starts later, 2 have narrow rules or goals only, 4 have city or county rules only, and 33 have no state or notable local mandate yet. See every state on the law tracker →
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