Federal
Title 1 — General Provisions
39 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 1 — Words denoting number, gender, and so forth
- § 101 — Enacting clause
- § 102 — Resolving clause
- § 103 — Enacting or resolving words after first section
- § 104 — Numbering of sections; single proposition
- § 105 — Title of appropriation Acts
- § 106 — Printing bills and joint resolutions
- § 106a — Promulgation of laws
- § 106b — Amendments to Constitution
- § 107 — Parchment or paper for printing enrolled bills or resolutions
- § 108 — Repeal of repealing act
- § 109 — Repeal of statutes as affecting existing liabilities
- § 110 — Saving clause of Revised Statutes
- § 111 — Repeals as evidence of prior effectiveness
- § 112 — Statutes at Large; contents; admissibility in evidence
- § 112a — United States Treaties and Other International Agreements; contents; admissibility in evidence
- § 112b — United States international agreements and non-binding instruments; transparency provisions
- § 113 — “Little and Brown’s” edition of laws and treaties; slip laws; Treaties and Other International Acts Series; admissibility in evidence
- § 114 — Sealing of instruments
- § 2 — “County” as including “parish”, and so forth
- § 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, and so forth, 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
- § 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
- § 6 — Limitation of term “products of American fisheries”
- § 7 — Marriage
- § 8 — “Person”, “human being”, “child”, and “individual” as including born-alive infant