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CHAPTER 1— RULES OF CONSTRUCTION
§ 1. Words denoting number, gender, and so forth - In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, unless...
§ 2. “County” as including “parish”, and so forth - The word “county” includes a parish, or any other equivalent...
§ 3. “Vessel” as including all means of water transportation - The word “vessel” includes every description of watercraft or other...
§ 4. “Vehicle” as including all means of land transportation - The word “vehicle” includes every description of carriage or other...
§ 5. “Company” or “association” as including successors and assigns - The word “company” or “association”, when used in reference to...
§ 6. Limitation of term “products of American fisheries” - Wherever, in the statutes of the United States or in...
§ 7. Marriage - (a) For the purposes of any Federal law, rule, or...
§ 8. “Person”, “human being”, “child”, and “individual” as including born-alive infant - (a) In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress,...
CHAPTER 2— ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS; FORMALITIES OF ENACTMENT; REPEALS; SEALING OF INSTRUMENTS
§ 101. Enacting clause - The enacting clause of all Acts of Congress shall be...
§ 102. Resolving clause - The resolving clause of all joint resolutions shall be in...
§ 103. Enacting or resolving words after first section - No enacting or resolving words shall be used in any...
§ 104. Numbering of sections; single proposition - Each section shall be numbered, and shall contain, as nearly...
§ 105. Title of appropriation Acts - The style and title of all Acts making appropriations for...
§ 106. Printing bills and joint resolutions - Every bill or joint resolution in each House of Congress...
§ 106a. Promulgation of laws - Whenever a bill, order, resolution, or vote of the Senate...
§ 106b. Amendments to Constitution - Whenever official notice is received at the National Archives and...
§ 107. Parchment or paper for printing enrolled bills or resolutions - Enrolled bills and resolutions of either House of Congress shall...
§ 108. Repeal of repealing act - Whenever an Act is repealed, which repealed a former Act,...
§ 109. Repeal of statutes as affecting existing liabilities - The repeal of any statute shall not have the effect...
§ 110. Saving clause of Revised Statutes - All acts of limitation, whether applicable to civil causes and...
§ 111. Repeals as evidence of prior effectiveness - No inference shall be raised by the enactment of the...
§ 112. Statutes at Large; contents; admissibility in evidence - The Archivist of the United States shall cause to be...
§ 112a. United States Treaties and Other International Agreements; contents; admissibility in evidence - (a) The Secretary of State shall cause to be compiled,...
§ 112b. United States international agreements; transmission to Congress - (a) The Secretary of State shall transmit to the Congress...
§ 113. “Little and Brown’s” edition of laws and treaties; slip laws; Treaties and Other International Acts Series; admissibility in evidence - The edition of the laws and treaties of the United...
§ 114. Sealing of instruments - In all cases where a seal is necessary by law...
CHAPTER 3— CODE OF LAWS OF 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 - (a) Publishing in slip or pamphlet form or in Statutes...
§ 202. Preparation and publication of Codes and Supplements - (a) Cumulative Supplements to Code of Laws of United States...
§ 203. District of Columbia Code; preparation and publication; cumulative supplements - The Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives...
§ 204. Codes and Supplements as evidence of the laws of United States and District of Columbia; citation of Codes and Supplements - (a) United States Code.— The matter set forth in the...
§ 205. Codes and Supplement; where printed; form and style; ancillaries - The publications provided for in sections 202, 203 of this...
§ 206. Bills and resolutions of Committee on the Judiciary of House of Representatives; form and style; ancillaries; curtailment of copies - All bills and resolutions relating to the revision of the...
§ 207. Copies of acts and resolutions in slip form; additional number printed for Committee on the Judiciary of House of Representatives - The Director of the Government Publishing Office is directed to...
§ 208. Delegation of function of Committee on the Judiciary to other agencies; printing, and so forth, under direction of Joint Committee on Printing - The functions vested by sections 201, 202, 204–207 of this...
§ 209. Copies of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; conclusive evidence of original - Copies of the Code of Laws relating to the District...
§ 210. Distribution of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; slip and pamphlet copies - Copies of the Code of Laws relating to the District...
§ 211. Copies to Members of Congress - In addition to quotas provided for by there shall be...
§ 212. Additional distribution at each new Congress - In addition the Superintendent of Documents shall, at the beginning...
§ 213. Appropriation for preparing and editing supplements - For preparation and editing an annual appropriation of $6,500 is...