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United States legal code section
Title 1 of the United States Code outlines the general provisions of the
United States Code .
[1]
Chapter 1
Chapter 1: Rules of Construction
Chapter 2
Chapter 2: Acts and Resolutions; Formalities of Enactment; Repeals; Sealing of Instruments
Chapter 3
Chapter 3: Code of Laws of the United States and Supplements; District of Columbia Code and Supplements
§ 201 – Publication and distribution of Code of Laws of United States and Supplements and
District of Columbia Code and Supplements.
§ 202 – Preparation and publication of Codes and Supplements.
§ 203 – District of Columbia Code; preparation and publication; cumulative supplements.
§ 204 – Codes and Supplements as evidence of the laws of United States and District of Columbia; citation of Codes and Supplements.
§ 205 – Codes and Supplement; where printed; form and style; ancillaries.
§ 206 – Bills and resolutions of
Committee on the Judiciary of House of Representatives ; form and style; ancillaries; curtailment of copies.
§ 207 – Copies of acts and resolutions in slip form; additional number printed for Committee on the Judiciary of House of Representatives.
§ 208 – Delegation of function of Committee on the Judiciary to other agencies; printing, etc., under direction of Joint Committee on Printing.
§ 209 – Copies of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; conclusive evidence of original.
§ 210 – Distribution of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; slip and pamphlet copies.
§ 211 – Copies to Members of Congress.
§ 212 – Additional distribution at each new Congress.
§ 213 – Appropriation for preparing and editing supplements.
History
Title I was originally passed by the
80th Congress in 1947, along with titles 3, 4, 6, 9, & 17.
[3] Chapter 1 was influenced
[4] by the "Dictionary Act"
[5] passed in the
41st Congress .
References
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"United States Code" .
Office of the Law Revision Counsel . Retrieved November 21, 2015 .
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"James ROWLAND, Former Director, California Department of Corrections, et al., Petitioners, v. CALIFORNIA MEN'S COLONY, UNIT II MEN'S ADVISORY COUNCIL" . Resource.org. Retrieved 2014-03-31 .
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"United States Code: Historical Outline and Explanatory Notes" (PDF) .
Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-01-04. Retrieved 2019-08-01 .
^ Barnet, Emily J.
"Hobby Lobby and the Dictionary Act" . www.yalelawjournal.org . Retrieved 2019-08-02 .
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"Session 3, Chapter 71: An Act prescribing the Form of the enacting and resolving Clauses of Acts and Resolutions of Congress, and Rules for the Construction thereof" . www.loc.gov . 2014-09-01. Retrieved 2019-08-02 .
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