§1510 Code of Federal Regulations

Summary

The Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, with the President’s approval, can require agencies to prepare and publish a full, organized collection of their widely used, legally binding rules and documents. These are items the agency published in the Federal Register or filed with the Committee and that the agency uses as authority. That collection is called the Code of Federal Regulations, and the Committee sets how it is published. The Committee must keep the Code current. Each part must be updated and republished at least once each calendar year. The Office of the Federal Register must prepare and publish the Code, its updates, indexes, and help materials. The Office may post updates electronically and let people pull the version in effect on a chosen date. The texts published in the Code, together with later changes published in the daily Federal Register, count as official proof of the words and that they are in effect on and after the date of publication. The Committee, with the President’s approval, must make rules to run this process. Presidential documents already in supplements to title 3 of the Code of Federal Regulations do not have to be codified.