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1 U.S. Code § 1 - Words denoting number, gender, and so forth. In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, unless the context indicates otherwise—. words importing the singular include and apply to several persons, parties, or things; words importing the plural include the singular;
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§ 1. Words denoting number, gender, and so forth § 2....
- Marriage
Amendments. 2022—Pub. L. 117–228 amended section generally....
- 1 U.S. Code 2
The word “county” includes a parish, or any other equivalent...
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This title has been made positive law by section 1 of act July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633, which provided in part that: “Title 1 of the United States Code entitled ‘General Provisions’, is codified and enacted into positive law and may be cited as ‘ 1 U. S. C. , § ——.’
The United States Code (formally the Code of Laws of the United States of America) [1] is the official codification of the general and permanent federal statutes of the United States. [2] It contains 53 titles, which are organized into numbered sections.
- I. in General
- II. Section Designation and Editing
- A. Four Common Types of Changes
- B. Other Changes
- III. Source Credits
- A. non-positive Law Titles
- B. Positive Law Titles
- C. Source Credit in Context
- IV. Notes Generally
- V. Editorial Notes
The United States Code ("Code") contains the general and permanent laws of the United States, arranged into 54 broad titles according to subject matter. The organization of the Code was originally established by Congress in 1926 with the enactment of the act of June 30, 1926, chapter 712. Since then, 27 of the titles, referred to as positive law ti...
The basic unit of every Code title is the section, and the way in which Code sections are composed can differ depending on whether the section is in a positive or non-positive law title. In a positive law title, all the sections have been enacted as sections of the title and appear in the Code in the same order, with the same section numbers, and w...
Four common types of changes are discussed below: Section designation. The first type of change involves changing the section number, known as the designation. Almost every provision of an act that is classified as a section of the Code is assigned a designation that differs from its act section number. For example, section 401 of the Social Securi...
In the past, it was the Code style to add words such as “of this subsection”, “of this section”, and “of this chapter” following references to a paragraph, subsection, or subchapter. This practice was not only discontinued several years ago, but there has also been ongoing work to delete these editorial additions throughout all non-positive law tit...
Source credits (“credits”) appear after the text of a Code section and consist of citations to each act that enacted, amended, or otherwise affected the section. With very few exceptions, source credits refer to public laws or other acts of Congress. The citation for each enacting and amending act includes the public law or chapter number , divisio...
Base law. In non-positive law titles, the first act in the source credit is almost always the “base law”. The base law is the act on which the Code section is based and of which it remains a part. In the above example of section 1301 of title 25, the base law is Public Law 90-284 because section 1301 is based on section 201 of Public Law 90-284. Th...
Source credits in positive law titles are similar to those in non-positive law titles, except that there is no base law. Instead, sections in a positive law title are part of the title itself and neither come from nor are part of any other law. The first citation in the credit is to the act that enacted the section. If the section was included in t...
Each act listed in the source credit affected the section in some way. Typically, the act directly amended the section, and information about the amendments made by each act can be found in editorial amendment notes under the section. Sometimes the changes are more subtle, and other editorial notes, such as Change of Name or Transfer of Functions, ...
One of the most misunderstood aspects of the Code is the notes appearing under sections. Generally speaking, a note refers to anything that follows the text and source credit of a Code section. There are a few broad categories of notes, such as editorial and statutory—explained in more detail below—as well as those issued from the executive branch ...
Most sections in the Code are followed by editorial notes. These notes are prepared by the Code editors to assist users of the Code. They provide information about the section's source, derivation, history, references, translations, effectiveness and applicability, codification, defined terms, prospective amendments, and related matters. The follow...
View tables that show where recently enacted laws will appear in the United States Code and which sections of the Code have been amended by those laws. Tables are prepared by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives.
United States Code exists to enable the general and permanent provisions of Federal statutory law to be findable and accessible. For example, let’s take one section compiled in the United States Code.
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Apr 12, 2024 · U.S.C. is the abbreviation for the United States Code § 78o is where the cited section was codified in the U.S. Code; U.S. State Laws: State law citations vary by jurisdiction. For state code citation methods, consult the Bluebook, Rule 12: Statutes and Table 1.3: States and the District of Columbia .
