Title 1 — General Provisions
39 sections across 3 chapters.
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Ch. 1— Words denoting number8 sections
- § 1Words denoting number, gender, and so forth
- § 2“County” as including “parish”, and so forth
- § 3“Vessel” as including all means of water transportation
- § 4“Vehicle” as including all means of land transportation
- § 5“Company” or “association” as including successors and assigns
- § 6Limitation of term “products of American fisheries”
- § 7Definition of “marriage” and “spouse”
- § 8“Person”, “human being”, “child”, and “individual” as including born-alive infant
Ch. 2— Enacting clause18 sections
- § 101Enacting clause
- § 102Resolving clause
- § 103Enacting or resolving words after first section
- § 104Numbering of sections; single proposition
- § 105Title of appropriation Acts
- § 106Printing bills and joint resolutions
- § 106aPromulgation of laws
- § 106bAmendments to Constitution
- § 107Parchment or paper for printing enrolled bills or resolutions
- § 108Repeal of repealing act
- § 109Repeal of statutes as affecting existing liabilities
- § 110Saving clause of Revised Statutes
- § 111Repeals as evidence of prior effectiveness
- § 112Statutes at Large; contents; admissibility in evidence
- § 112aUnited States Treaties and Other International Agreements; contents; admissibility in evidence
- § 112bUnited States international agreements; transmission to Congress
- § 113“Little and Brown’s” edition of laws and treaties; slip laws; Treaties and Other International Acts Series; admissibility in evidence
- § 114Sealing of instruments
Ch. 3— Publication and distribution of Code of Laws of United State13 sections
- § 201Publication and distribution of Code of Laws of United States and Supplements and District of Columbia Code and Supplements
- § 202Preparation and publication of Codes and Supplements
- § 203District of Columbia Code; preparation and publication; cumulative supplements
- § 204Codes and Supplements as evidence of the laws of United States and District of Columbia; citation of Codes and Supplements
- § 205Codes and Supplement; where printed; form and style; ancillaries
- § 206Bills and resolutions of Committee on the Judiciary of House of Representatives; form and style; ancillaries; curtailment of copies
- § 207Copies of acts and resolutions in slip form; additional number printed for Committee on the Judiciary of House of Representatives
- § 208Delegation of function of Committee on the Judiciary to other agencies; printing, and so forth, under direction of Joint Committee on Printing
- § 209Copies of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; conclusive evidence of original
- § 210Distribution of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; slip and pamphlet copies
- § 211Copies to Members of Congress
- § 212Additional distribution at each new Congress
- § 213Appropriation for preparing and editing supplements