Claire,
Titles 1 through 35 of the 2006 edition of the U.S. Code have been
published in book form. Titles 1 through 41 of the 2006 edition are
available on the web site of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House
of Representatives (the publisher of the U.S. Code) -
http://uscode.house.gov/.
All 50 titles of the U.S. Code are statutory and citable. The question
of positive law vs. non-positive law comes into play when there is a
conflict between the version in the U.S. Code and the version in the
Statutes at Large. Substantive conflicts between the two versions are
extremely rare.
For more material on the U.S. Code, you might want to look at
* http://uscode.house.gov/about/info.shtml
* http://thomas.loc.gov/home/lawsmade.bysec/publication.html#usc
A fairly detailed (86 page) account of the production of the U.S. Code
can be found in
Information Process Study Report: Production of the
United States Code, House Information Systems, Committee on House
Administration, U.S. House of Representatives, HIS doc. no. DN-1052,
February 6, 1981
Some of the specifics in that report have changed since 1981, but much
of it is still valid. If anyone would like an electronic copy of the
report, I would be happy to send you one.
Elliot
Elliot Chabot, esq.
Chief for Web Design and Standards Compliance
CAO Web Solutions Branch
U.S. House of Representatives
H2-646 Ford House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-6165
(202) 226-6456
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
Behalf Of Campbell, Claire
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:13 PM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: [LAW-LIB:57926] Citing to USC
Can someone tell me how to accurately cite the year in a U.S, Code
citation.
I have several cites for which we are unsure of the date to be cited.
Documentation on the GPO website states that only some of the Titles
have been officially published in 2006 edition and should therefore
bear that year as part of the citation
for example - 11 USC 365e (2006)
We are interested in:
11 USC 365e
11 USC 101
11 USC 560
11 USC 561 a(5)
15 USC 77a
15 USC 78c
The Blue Book is rather vague on this and the GPO website does list
that:
Of the 50 titles, only 23 have been enacted into
positive (statutory) law. These titles are 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13,
14, 17, 18, 23, 28, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 44, 46, and 49. When
a title of the Code was enacted into positive law, the text of the title
became legal evidence of the law. Titles that have not been enacted into
positive law are only prima facie evidence of the law. In that case, the
Statutes at Large still govern.
If this is still current and Title 15 is not included in this list,
should we still site to the older 2000 version or to the Statute?
I also have the 3rd edition of "ALWD Citation Manual", but it was
published in 2006 and states that the 2000 edition is still current.
Perhaps someone can refer me to a good source for a detailed explanation
of how the code is updated and how to cite to it.
The more I read the more confused I be!!!
Claire Campbell
Library Manager
Patton Boggs LLP
214-758-3533
ccampbell@pattonboggs.com
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