§202 — Title 1 General Provisions | U.S. Code

Summary

The House Judiciary Committee must oversee publishing updates to the U.S. Code and the District of Columbia Code. Each session of Congress gets a supplement that adds that session’s laws and fixes errors in the existing code and earlier supplements. The Committee must also print full new editions that fix errors and fold in the current supplement, but only once every five years. After a new edition, later supplements must not repeat laws already covered by earlier supplements.

Title 1, §202

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There shall be prepared and published under the supervision of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives—

(a)A supplement for each session of the Congress to the then current edition of the Code of Laws of the United States, cumulatively embracing the legislation of the then current supplement, and correcting errors in such edition and supplement;

(b)A supplement for each session of the Congress to the then current edition of the Code of the District of Columbia, cumulatively embracing the legislation of the then current supplement, and correcting errors in such edition and supplement;

(c)New editions of the Code of Laws of the United States and of the Code of the District of Columbia, correcting errors and incorporating the then current supplement. In the case of each code new editions shall not be published oftener than once in each five years. Copies of each such edition shall be distributed in the same manner as provided in the case of supplements to the code of which it is a new edition. Supplements published after any new edition shall not contain the legislation of supplements published before such new edition.

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Cross References Council of the District of Columbia, functions respecting, see section 2 of Pub. L. 94–386, Aug. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1170, set out as a note under section 285b of Title 2, The Congress. Office of the Law Revision Counsel, functions respecting preparation, revision, publication, etc., see section 285b of Title 2.

§202 Preparation and publication of Codes and Supplements

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Title 1, §202

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