1 U.S.C. § 202 — Preparation and publication of Codes and Supplements

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This law requires publishing updated U.S. Code and D.C. Code volumes. A new supplement comes out after every session of Congress, and a full new edition comes out at least every five years. The House Judiciary Committee supervises this work.

The House Judiciary Committee must supervise the preparation and publishing of the following: (a) Cumulative Supplements to Code of Laws of United States for each session of Congress: A supplement for each session of Congress, added to the current edition of the U.S. Code. Each supplement builds on the laws in the current supplement, and fixes errors in the edition and earlier supplements. (b) Cumulative Supplement to District of Columbia Code for each session of Congress: The same kind of supplement, but for the Code of the District of Columbia. (c) New editions of Codes and Supplements: Completely new editions of the U.S. Code and the D.C. Code, which fix errors and fold in the current supplement. Each code can only get a new edition once every five years at most. Copies of a new edition are given out the same way supplements are. Supplements published after a new edition cannot repeat laws from supplements published before that edition.

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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) Cumulative Supplements to Code of Laws of United States for each session of Congress.—

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) Cumulative Supplement to District of Columbia Code for each session of Congress.—

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;

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 In the case of each code new editions shall not be published oftener than once in each five years.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.

Source credit: (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 637.)

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1947Enacted · Act of July 30, 1947, ch. 388 · 61 Stat. 637

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