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The United States Code (U.S.C.) is a compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal law of the United States.

Codification process The official text of an Act of Congress is that of the "enrolled bill (proposed law)" (traditionally printed on parchment) presented to the President for his signature or disapproval. Upon promulgation of a law, the original bill is delivered to the Archivist of the United States, and duplicate copies are issued in pamphlet form as "slip laws" by the Government Printing Office (GPO). The Archivist assembles annual volumes of the enacted laws and publishes them as the United States Statutes at Large. By law, the text of the Statutes at Large is "legal evidence" of the laws enacted by Congress.

The Statutes at Large, however, is not a convenient tool for legal research. It is arranged strictly in chronological order, so that statutes addressing related topics may be scattered across many volumes. Statutes often repeal or amend earlier laws, and extensive cross-reference is required to determine what laws are in effect at any given time.

The Code is the result of an effort to make finding relevant and effective statutes simpler by reorganizing them by subject matter, and eliminating expired and amended sections. The Code is maintained by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel (LRC) of the U.S. House of Representatives. The LRC determines which statutes should be codified, and which existing laws are affected by amendments or repeals, or have simply expired by their own terms. The LRC updates the Code accordingly.

Because of this codification approach, a single named statute (like the Taft-Hartley Act, or the Embargo Act of 1807) may or may not appear in a single place in the Code. Often, complex legislation bundles a series of provisions together as a means of addressing a social or governmental problem; those provisions often fall in different logical areas of the Code. For example, a bill providing relief for family farms might affect items in Title 7 (Agriculture), Title 26 (Tax), and Title 43 (public land). When the bill is codified, its various provisions might well be placed in different parts of those various Titles. Traces of this process are generally found in the Notes accompanying the "lead section" associated with the popular name, and in cross-reference tables that identify Code sections corresponding to particular Acts of Congress.

Usually the individual sections of a statute are incorporated into the Code exactly as enacted. Sometimes, however, editorial changes are made (for instance, the phrase "the date of enactment of this Act" is replaced by the actual date).

By law, the Code is "prima facie evidence" of the law in effect. The Statutes at Large remains the ultimate authority. If a dispute arises as to the accuracy or completeness of the codification, the courts will turn to the language in the United States Statutes at Large.

In addition, the LRC continues the process of revising, updating, and restating the existing body of statutory law in codified form, and as it completes particular areas of the law it proposes to enact those titles of the Code as "positive law". If enacted into law, these titles of the Code repeal all previous enactments on the subject (including those found in the Statutes at Large) and adopt the Code itself as a statute, thereby making these titles "legal evidence" of the law in force.

Only "general and permanent" laws are codified; the Code does not usually include provisions that apply only to a limited number of people (a statutory law) or for a limited time, such as most appropriation (law) acts or budget laws, which apply only for a single fiscal year. If these limited provisions are significant, however, they may be printed as "notes" underneath related sections of the Code. The codification is based on the content of the laws, however, not the vehicle by which they are adopted; so, for instance, if an appropriations act contains substantive, permanent legislation (as is sometimes the case), the permanent provisions will be incorporated into the Code even though they were adopted as part of a non-permanent enactment.For example, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2006, , (2005) -- a time-specific appropriations act that the President signed into law on December 30, 2005 -- contains in its Title X the Detainee Treatment Act, which sets out, among other things, permanent provisions governing standards for interrogation of persons in Defense Department custody, prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishment, and procedures for status review of extraterritorial detainees. See id. at §§ 1002, 1003, 1005.

Organization The Code is divided into 50 titles (listed below), which deal with broad, logically organized areas of legislation. Titles may optionally be divided into subtitles, parts, subparts, chapters, and subchapters. All titles have sections (represented by a §), as their smallest basic coherent unit, though sections are often divided into subsections, paragraphs, and clauses. Not all titles use the same series of subdivisions above the section level, and they may arrange them in different order. For example, in Title 26 (the tax code), the order of subdivision runs Title - Subtitle - Chapter - Subchapter - Part - Subpart - Section - Subsection - Paragraph - Subparagraph - Clause - Subclause. In Title 38 (Veteran's Benefits) the order runs Title - Part - Chapter - Subchapter - Section. Put another way, the Title is always the largest division of the Code, and the section the smallest (except for subsections, paragraphs, clauses, etc.), but intermediate levels vary in both number and sequence from Title to Title.

The word "title" in this context is roughly akin to a printed "volume," although many of the larger titles span multiple volumes. Similarly, no particular size or length is associated with other subdivisions; a section might run several pages in print, or just a sentence or two. Some subdivisions within particular titles acquire meaning of their own; for example, it's common for lawyers to refer to a "Chapter 11" bankruptcy or a "Subchapter K" partnership.

A sample citation would be , the Privacy Act of 1974. A lawyer would read that out loud as "Title five, United States Code, section five hundred fifty-two A."

When sections are repealed, their text is deleted and replaced by a note summarizing what used to be there. This is necessary so that lawyers reading old cases can understand what the cases are talking about. As a result, some portions of the Code consist entirely of empty chapters full of historical notes. For example, Title 8, Chapter 7 is labeled "Exclusion of Chinese." This contains historical notes relating to the Chinese Exclusion Act (United States), which is no longer in effect.

Versions and history Early compilations Early efforts at codifying the Acts of Congress were undertaken by private publishers; these were useful shortcuts for research purposes, but had no official status. Congress undertook an official codification called the Revised Statutes approved June 22, 1874, for the laws in effect as of December 1, 1873. Congress re-enacted a corrected version in 1878. The Revised Statutes were enacted as positive law, but subsequent enactments were not incorporated into the official code, so that over time researchers once again had to delve through many volumes of the Statutes at Large. According to the preface to the Code, "From 1897 to 1907 a commission was engaged in an effort to codify the great mass of accumulating legislation. The work of the commission involved an expenditure of over $300,000, but was never carried to completion."

Official code During the 1920s, some members of Congress revived the codification project, resulting in the approval of the United States Code by Congress in 1926.

The official version of the Code is published by the LRC as a series of paper volumes. The first edition of the Code was contained in a single bound volume; today, it spans several large volumes. Normally, a new edition of the Code is issued every six years, with annual supplements identifying the changes made by legislation in each session of Congress. In practice, however, the Code is kept up-to-date on a near-current basis as laws are enacted, and notes are printed in the margins of the slip laws indicating where each section will be codified, if at all. Both the LRC and the GPO offer electronic versions of the Code to the public. The electronic version may be as much as 18 months behind current legislation, but it is the most up to date official version. A number of other online versions are freely available, including those at Findlaw and at Cornell's Legal Information Institute (see #External Links below). Annotated codes Practicing lawyers who can afford them almost always use an annotated version of the U.S. Code from a private company. The two leading annotated versions are the United States Code Annotated, abbreviated as U.S.C.A., and the United States Code Service, abbreviated as U.S.C.S. The U.S.C.A. is published by Thomson West, and U.S.C.S. is published by LexisNexis (part of Reed Elsevier), although the current edition was originated by the Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co. See Wexis. These annotated versions contain notes following each section of the law, which summarize relevant court decisions, law review articles, and other authorities, and may also include uncodified provisions that are part of the Public Laws. The publishers of these versions frequently issue supplements that contain newly-enacted laws, which may not yet have appeared in an official published version of the Code. When an attorney is viewing an annotated code on an online service, such as Westlaw, all the citations in the annotations are hyperlinked to the referenced opinions and documents.

Other relevant codifications The Code generally contains only those Acts of Congress known as public laws (although the notes sometimes contain related Executive Orders and other presidential documents). The Code does not contain statutes known as private laws, nor does it contain regulations adopted by executive agencies through the rulemaking process set out in the Administrative Procedure Act. These regulations are published chronologically in the Federal Register and are then compiled by topic or subject matter in the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.), which constitutes an additional important source of federal law.

Parts of interest The Uniform Code of Military Justice is contained in Title 10, Chapter 47. It defines infractions such as going AWOL and contains the popularly-known phrase, "Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman."

Title 11 is the Bankruptcy in the United States. Some of the different types of bankruptcy are commonly referred to simply by their chapter numbers: Chapter 7, Title 11, United States Code, Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Chapter 13, Title 11, United States Code.

Title 18 deals with federal Criminal law.

Title 26 is also known as the Internal Revenue Code. Much of Title 26 is administered and enforced by the Internal Revenue Service and is one of the largest portions of the Code.

Title 42 is a lengthy title which includes statutes governing several large federal government programs like Social Security (United States) and Medicare (United States). One provision, , is the basis for a wide range of federal civil rights actions in federal courts; it is the codification of the Civil Rights Act of 1871. Section 1983 cases include suits alleging use of excessive force by police and First Amendment suits against public schools to maintain church/state separation. Section 1983 itself is quite short; the annotations (i.e., the digests and summaries of court decisions interpreting it), however, span several volumes.

Titles Titles that have been enacted into positive law are indicated by blue shading below.

{]| General Provisions|-| Title 2 of the United States Code| The United States Congress|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 3 of the United States Code| The President of the United States|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 4 of the United States Code| Flag of the United States and Great Seal of the United States, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. states|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 5 of the United States Code| Federal government of the United States Organization and Employees*]
(original)| Surety Bonds (repealed)
(Combined into Title 31 when it was enacted into positive law.)]|-| Title 7 of the United States Code| Agriculture| Aliens and [Nationality| [Arbitration| [United States Armed Forces (including the Uniform Code of Military Justice)]| Bankruptcy| [Banks and Banking]| Census| [United States Coast Guard|-| Title 15 of the United States Code| Commerce and Trade| [Conservation ethic|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 17 of the United States Code| Copyrights]| Crimes and Criminal Procedure*]| Customs Duties]| Education| [Food and Drug Administration|-| Title 22 of the United States Code| Foreign relations of the United States and Intercourse|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 23 of the United States Code| Highways]| Hospitals and Psychiatric hospitals|-| Title 25 of the United States Code| Native Americans in the United States|-| Internal Revenue Code| Internal Revenue Code| [Alcoholic Beverage|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 28 of the United States Code| Judiciary and Judicial Procedure| [Employment|-| Title 30 of the United States Code| Mineral Lands and Mining| [Money and Finance| [United States National Guard|-| Title 33 of the United States Code| Navigation and Waterway|-| Title 34 of the United States Code| United States Navy (repealed)|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 35 of the United States Code| Patents]| Patriotism|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 37 of the United States Code| Pay and Allowances Of the Uniformed Services]| Veterans' Benefits]| United States Postal Service|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 40 of the United States Code| Public Buildings, Properties, and Public works|-| Title 41 of the United States Code| Public Contracts]| The Public Health and Social welfare|-| Title 43 of the United States Code| Public Lands|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 44 of the United States Code| Public Printing and Documents]| Rail transport|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 46 of the United States Code| Shipping*]| Telegraphys, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs]| Insular area|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 49 of the United States Code| Transportation]| War and National Defense]s not yet enacted into positive law.

References

External links

• Office of Law Revision Counsel (Search the U.S. Code House of Representatives Site)
• U.S. Code Official Government site
• U.S. Code online at findlaw.com
• U.S. Code with links to C.F.R. parallels
• Acts listed by popular name (at Cornell's U.S. Code site)

The United States Code (U.S.C.) is a compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal law of the United States.

Codification process The official text of an Act of Congress is that of the "enrolled bill (proposed law)" (traditionally printed on parchment) presented to the President for his signature or disapproval. Upon promulgation of a law, the original bill is delivered to the Archivist of the United States, and duplicate copies are issued in pamphlet form as "slip laws" by the Government Printing Office (GPO). The Archivist assembles annual volumes of the enacted laws and publishes them as the United States Statutes at Large. By law, the text of the Statutes at Large is "legal evidence" of the laws enacted by Congress.

The Statutes at Large, however, is not a convenient tool for legal research. It is arranged strictly in chronological order, so that statutes addressing related topics may be scattered across many volumes. Statutes often repeal or amend earlier laws, and extensive cross-reference is required to determine what laws are in effect at any given time.

The Code is the result of an effort to make finding relevant and effective statutes simpler by reorganizing them by subject matter, and eliminating expired and amended sections. The Code is maintained by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel (LRC) of the U.S. House of Representatives. The LRC determines which statutes should be codified, and which existing laws are affected by amendments or repeals, or have simply expired by their own terms. The LRC updates the Code accordingly.

Because of this codification approach, a single named statute (like the Taft-Hartley Act, or the Embargo Act of 1807) may or may not appear in a single place in the Code. Often, complex legislation bundles a series of provisions together as a means of addressing a social or governmental problem; those provisions often fall in different logical areas of the Code. For example, a bill providing relief for family farms might affect items in Title 7 (Agriculture), Title 26 (Tax), and Title 43 (public land). When the bill is codified, its various provisions might well be placed in different parts of those various Titles. Traces of this process are generally found in the Notes accompanying the "lead section" associated with the popular name, and in cross-reference tables that identify Code sections corresponding to particular Acts of Congress.

Usually the individual sections of a statute are incorporated into the Code exactly as enacted. Sometimes, however, editorial changes are made (for instance, the phrase "the date of enactment of this Act" is replaced by the actual date).

By law, the Code is "prima facie evidence" of the law in effect. The Statutes at Large remains the ultimate authority. If a dispute arises as to the accuracy or completeness of the codification, the courts will turn to the language in the United States Statutes at Large.

In addition, the LRC continues the process of revising, updating, and restating the existing body of statutory law in codified form, and as it completes particular areas of the law it proposes to enact those titles of the Code as "positive law". If enacted into law, these titles of the Code repeal all previous enactments on the subject (including those found in the Statutes at Large) and adopt the Code itself as a statute, thereby making these titles "legal evidence" of the law in force.

Only "general and permanent" laws are codified; the Code does not usually include provisions that apply only to a limited number of people (a statutory law) or for a limited time, such as most appropriation (law) acts or budget laws, which apply only for a single fiscal year. If these limited provisions are significant, however, they may be printed as "notes" underneath related sections of the Code. The codification is based on the content of the laws, however, not the vehicle by which they are adopted; so, for instance, if an appropriations act contains substantive, permanent legislation (as is sometimes the case), the permanent provisions will be incorporated into the Code even though they were adopted as part of a non-permanent enactment.For example, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2006, , (2005) -- a time-specific appropriations act that the President signed into law on December 30, 2005 -- contains in its Title X the Detainee Treatment Act, which sets out, among other things, permanent provisions governing standards for interrogation of persons in Defense Department custody, prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishment, and procedures for status review of extraterritorial detainees. See id. at §§ 1002, 1003, 1005.

Organization The Code is divided into 50 titles (listed below), which deal with broad, logically organized areas of legislation. Titles may optionally be divided into subtitles, parts, subparts, chapters, and subchapters. All titles have sections (represented by a §), as their smallest basic coherent unit, though sections are often divided into subsections, paragraphs, and clauses. Not all titles use the same series of subdivisions above the section level, and they may arrange them in different order. For example, in Title 26 (the tax code), the order of subdivision runs Title - Subtitle - Chapter - Subchapter - Part - Subpart - Section - Subsection - Paragraph - Subparagraph - Clause - Subclause. In Title 38 (Veteran's Benefits) the order runs Title - Part - Chapter - Subchapter - Section. Put another way, the Title is always the largest division of the Code, and the section the smallest (except for subsections, paragraphs, clauses, etc.), but intermediate levels vary in both number and sequence from Title to Title.

The word "title" in this context is roughly akin to a printed "volume," although many of the larger titles span multiple volumes. Similarly, no particular size or length is associated with other subdivisions; a section might run several pages in print, or just a sentence or two. Some subdivisions within particular titles acquire meaning of their own; for example, it's common for lawyers to refer to a "Chapter 11" bankruptcy or a "Subchapter K" partnership.

A sample citation would be , the Privacy Act of 1974. A lawyer would read that out loud as "Title five, United States Code, section five hundred fifty-two A."

When sections are repealed, their text is deleted and replaced by a note summarizing what used to be there. This is necessary so that lawyers reading old cases can understand what the cases are talking about. As a result, some portions of the Code consist entirely of empty chapters full of historical notes. For example, Title 8, Chapter 7 is labeled "Exclusion of Chinese." This contains historical notes relating to the Chinese Exclusion Act (United States), which is no longer in effect.

Versions and history Early compilations Early efforts at codifying the Acts of Congress were undertaken by private publishers; these were useful shortcuts for research purposes, but had no official status. Congress undertook an official codification called the Revised Statutes approved June 22, 1874, for the laws in effect as of December 1, 1873. Congress re-enacted a corrected version in 1878. The Revised Statutes were enacted as positive law, but subsequent enactments were not incorporated into the official code, so that over time researchers once again had to delve through many volumes of the Statutes at Large. According to the preface to the Code, "From 1897 to 1907 a commission was engaged in an effort to codify the great mass of accumulating legislation. The work of the commission involved an expenditure of over $300,000, but was never carried to completion."

Official code During the 1920s, some members of Congress revived the codification project, resulting in the approval of the United States Code by Congress in 1926.

The official version of the Code is published by the LRC as a series of paper volumes. The first edition of the Code was contained in a single bound volume; today, it spans several large volumes. Normally, a new edition of the Code is issued every six years, with annual supplements identifying the changes made by legislation in each session of Congress. In practice, however, the Code is kept up-to-date on a near-current basis as laws are enacted, and notes are printed in the margins of the slip laws indicating where each section will be codified, if at all. Both the LRC and the GPO offer electronic versions of the Code to the public. The electronic version may be as much as 18 months behind current legislation, but it is the most up to date official version. A number of other online versions are freely available, including those at Findlaw and at Cornell's Legal Information Institute (see #External Links below). Annotated codes Practicing lawyers who can afford them almost always use an annotated version of the U.S. Code from a private company. The two leading annotated versions are the United States Code Annotated, abbreviated as U.S.C.A., and the United States Code Service, abbreviated as U.S.C.S. The U.S.C.A. is published by Thomson West, and U.S.C.S. is published by LexisNexis (part of Reed Elsevier), although the current edition was originated by the Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co. See Wexis. These annotated versions contain notes following each section of the law, which summarize relevant court decisions, law review articles, and other authorities, and may also include uncodified provisions that are part of the Public Laws. The publishers of these versions frequently issue supplements that contain newly-enacted laws, which may not yet have appeared in an official published version of the Code. When an attorney is viewing an annotated code on an online service, such as Westlaw, all the citations in the annotations are hyperlinked to the referenced opinions and documents.

Other relevant codifications The Code generally contains only those Acts of Congress known as public laws (although the notes sometimes contain related Executive Orders and other presidential documents). The Code does not contain statutes known as private laws, nor does it contain regulations adopted by executive agencies through the rulemaking process set out in the Administrative Procedure Act. These regulations are published chronologically in the Federal Register and are then compiled by topic or subject matter in the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.), which constitutes an additional important source of federal law.

Parts of interest The Uniform Code of Military Justice is contained in Title 10, Chapter 47. It defines infractions such as going AWOL and contains the popularly-known phrase, "Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman."

Title 11 is the Bankruptcy in the United States. Some of the different types of bankruptcy are commonly referred to simply by their chapter numbers: Chapter 7, Title 11, United States Code, Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Chapter 13, Title 11, United States Code.

Title 18 deals with federal Criminal law.

Title 26 is also known as the Internal Revenue Code. Much of Title 26 is administered and enforced by the Internal Revenue Service and is one of the largest portions of the Code.

Title 42 is a lengthy title which includes statutes governing several large federal government programs like Social Security (United States) and Medicare (United States). One provision, , is the basis for a wide range of federal civil rights actions in federal courts; it is the codification of the Civil Rights Act of 1871. Section 1983 cases include suits alleging use of excessive force by police and First Amendment suits against public schools to maintain church/state separation. Section 1983 itself is quite short; the annotations (i.e., the digests and summaries of court decisions interpreting it), however, span several volumes.

Titles Titles that have been enacted into positive law are indicated by blue shading below.

{]| General Provisions|-| Title 2 of the United States Code| The United States Congress|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 3 of the United States Code| The President of the United States|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 4 of the United States Code| Flag of the United States and Great Seal of the United States, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. states|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 5 of the United States Code| Federal government of the United States Organization and Employees*]
(original)| Surety Bonds (repealed)
(Combined into Title 31 when it was enacted into positive law.)]|-| Title 7 of the United States Code| Agriculture| Aliens and [Nationality| [Arbitration| [United States Armed Forces (including the Uniform Code of Military Justice)]| Bankruptcy| [Banks and Banking]| Census| [United States Coast Guard|-| Title 15 of the United States Code| Commerce and Trade| [Conservation ethic|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 17 of the United States Code| Copyrights]| Crimes and Criminal Procedure*]| Customs Duties]| Education| [Food and Drug Administration|-| Title 22 of the United States Code| Foreign relations of the United States and Intercourse|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 23 of the United States Code| Highways]| Hospitals and Psychiatric hospitals|-| Title 25 of the United States Code| Native Americans in the United States|-| Internal Revenue Code| Internal Revenue Code| [Alcoholic Beverage|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 28 of the United States Code| Judiciary and Judicial Procedure| [Employment|-| Title 30 of the United States Code| Mineral Lands and Mining| [Money and Finance| [United States National Guard|-| Title 33 of the United States Code| Navigation and Waterway|-| Title 34 of the United States Code| United States Navy (repealed)|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 35 of the United States Code| Patents]| Patriotism|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 37 of the United States Code| Pay and Allowances Of the Uniformed Services]| Veterans' Benefits]| United States Postal Service|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 40 of the United States Code| Public Buildings, Properties, and Public works|-| Title 41 of the United States Code| Public Contracts]| The Public Health and Social welfare|-| Title 43 of the United States Code| Public Lands|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 44 of the United States Code| Public Printing and Documents]| Rail transport|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 46 of the United States Code| Shipping*]| Telegraphys, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs]| Insular area|- bgcolor="#ADDFFF"| Title 49 of the United States Code| Transportation]| War and National Defense]s not yet enacted into positive law.

References

External links

• Office of Law Revision Counsel (Search the U.S. Code House of Representatives Site)
• U.S. Code Official Government site
• U.S. Code online at findlaw.com
• U.S. Code with links to C.F.R. parallels
• Acts listed by popular name (at Cornell's U.S. Code site)

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