Making laws
United States Code
The subject-organized compilation of general and permanent federal law, arranged in titles. Where a statute lives after enactment, as opposed to how it was passed.
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New laws arrive as public laws in the order enacted, which is useless for finding the law on a subject. The Office of the Law Revision Counsel folds them into the U.S. Code, organized into titles such as Title 18 for crimes and Title 42 for public health. Some titles have been enacted as positive law and are themselves the law; the rest are evidence of it, with the Statutes at Large controlling.
Also written as: U.S. Code, USC
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