Title 1 of the United States Code

Title 1 of the United States Code outlines the general provisions of the United States Code. In 2011, H.R.3 proposed a new "Chapter 4. Prohibiting Taxpayer Funded Abortions and Providing for Conscience Protections." The bill is in the United States Congress.

Chapter 1

Main: Rules of Construction

Chapter 1: Rules of Construction

• § 1 — Words denoting number, gender, etc.
• § 2 — "County" as including "parish," etc.
• § 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 — Definition of "marriage" and "spouse".
• § 8 — “Person”, “human being”, “child”, and “individual” as including born-alive infant.

also known as the "Born-Alive Infants Protection Act")

Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Acts and Resolutions; Formalities of Enactment; Repeals; Sealing of Instruments

• § 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; transmission to the United States Congress.
• § 113 — "Little and Brown's" edition of laws and treaties; slip laws; Treaties and Other International Act 1 Series; admissibility in evidence.
• § 114 — Sealing of instruments.

Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Code of Laws of the United States and Supplements; District of Columbia Code and Supplements

• § 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, etc., 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.

External links

• U.S. Code Title 1, via United States Government Printing Office
• U.S. Code Title 1, via Cornell University
• Title 1 of the United States Code on OpenJurist.org