Sterling Codifiers Inc., a Coeur d'Alene-based, company that codifies new laws of cities, counties, and American Indian tribes, meaning it organizes them into a searchable system and checks for compatibility with existing codes, says it has bought a building that will more than double its current office space there.

Robert Rollins, Sterling Codifier's president and owner, says the company will move in late September or early October into an 8,100-square-foot building at 3906 N. Schreiber Way, about a block southeast of the U.S. Forest Service Idaho Panhandle National Forests headquarters.

Sterling currently occupies 3,500 square feet of leased space at 7600 Mineral Drive, in Coeur d'Alene.

"This allows us the opportunity to expand," Rollins says of the planned move. "We're growing out of space here."

Sterling Codifiers employs 22 people, including six who are based in the company's Weiser, Idaho, office, he says, adding that the company has added one or two employees to its staff annually in recent years.

Sterling's niche is serving small to medium-sized municipalities, and the company has 960 clients in 25 states, Rollins says.

"We are very selective on our clients," Rollins says. "They want partners to review their ordinances and look for discrepancies."

Rollins' grandfather started the company more than 40 years ago, in Weiser, and the company moved its headquarters to Coeur d'Alene in 1996. Rollins says he represents his family's third generation in the business. He says he has headed the company for about 17 years, and he bought it from his mother three years ago.

The company reviews newly approved ordinances to check for discrepancies with a client's previous ordinances and codifies them in an easily retrievable electronic format, he says. Sterling has four main competitors nationwide, Rollins says. He declines to disclose the company's revenues, but says they have been growing steadily.

Chris Bell and Carlo Jensen, both of Spokane-based NAI Black, and Shawn McMahan, of Coeur d'Alene-based Century 21 Beutler & Associates, handled the real estate transaction.