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1 U.S.C. § 103 — Enacting or resolving words after first section
submitted 79 years ago by ch. 388 to r/title-1-GENERAL-PROVISIONS · 22 words · no verdicts yet
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This section says a law or resolution's enacting or resolving words can only appear once, in its first section — not repeated in any later section.
This section is not split into lettered parts. In any Act or resolution of Congress, the enacting words or resolving words may appear only in the first section, not in any section after it.
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No enacting or resolving words shall be used in any section of an Act or resolution of Congress except in the first.
Source credit: (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)
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- 1947Enacted · Act of July 30, 1947, ch. 388 · 61 Stat. 634
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 388 on 1947-07-30.
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