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U.S. Code

A multivolume publication of the text of statutes enacted by Congress.

Until 1926, the positive law for federal legislation was published in one volume of the Revised Statutes of 1875, and then in each sub-sequent volume of the statutes at large. In 1925, Congress authorized the preparation of the U.S. Code and appointed a revisor of statutes to extract all the sections of the Revised Statutes of 1875 that had not been repealed and all of the public laws that were still in effect from the Statutes at Large since 1873. These laws were rearranged into fifty titles and published in four volumes as the U.S. Code, 1926 edition. Thereafter, an annual cumulative supplement containing all the laws passed since 1926 was published. In 1932, a new edition of the code was published, which incorporated the cumulative supplements to the 1926 edition. This became the U.S. Code, 1932 edition. Every six years, a new edition of the code is published, incorporating the annual cumulative supplements prepared since the previous edition.

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In 1986, Congress revised Title 18 of the United States Code to include the investigation of fraud and related activities concerning that were described as "federal interest computers", as defined in Title 18, United States Code.

THE U.S. SECRET SERVICE: HISTORY, MISSION AND ROLE IN THE HOMELAND SECURITY STRATEGY

(22.) The importation provisions are found in 17 United States Code [section] 602 (2006).

Combat-related Special Compensation (CRSC) was authorized by Public Law 107-314 on December 2, 2002, and codified as section 1413a in Title 10, United States Code. Eligible veterans may receive pay effective June 1, 2003.

Their commentaries address the United States Code sections most relevant to wire taps, electronic surveillance, and security in general.

Electronic Surveillance: Commentaries and Statutes

Each bank shall develop and provide for the continued administration of a program reasonably designed to ensure and monitor compliance with the recordkeeping and reporting requirements set forth in subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code, the Bank Secrecy Act, and the implementing regulations promulgated thereunder by the Department of the Treasury at 31 C.F.R.

Joint final rule--amendment to customer identification programs for banks, savings associations, credit unions and certain non-federally regulated banks. (Legal Developments)

553.15 of Title 32 of the United States Code, which was in force in 1980, when Douglas died, burial at Arlington is permitted to any former associate justice of the Supreme Court whose "last period of active duty (other than for training) as a member of the Armed Forces terminated honorably." Thus, all Douglas's family would have had to show was that he had once served on active duty in any branch of the military for as little as one day, and that he had an honorable discharge, according to Tom Sherlock, chief historian at the cemetery.

Falls of justice: what happens when a biographer attacks his subject--and gets his facts wrong?

Prison authorities had cut off access to the complete United States Code, eliminated inmate legal assistants, and started to charge indigent inmates for copies of legal materials, notary services and legal telephones and mail.

1. Access to courts

Second are service members currently serving in the Reserve Component who are credited with at least 8 continuous years of service computed under Section 12733 of Title 10, United States Code (for example, at least 2,880 points).

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Basically following the terms of the Genocide Convention, this Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987 (found in Title 18 of the United States Code) defines the crime of "genocide" as follows:

Petition on Behalf of the Children of Iraq Submitted to the United Nations Charging President Bush and U.S. Authorities Actions Constitute Acts of Genocide

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) became law when published in the United States Code in 1938.

What is 'work' under the US Fair Labor Standards Act?

The Fourth Circuit held that the admissibility of the confession should be assessed in light of a federal statute, codified at Title 18 United States Code, Section 3501 (18 U.S.C.

The Supreme Court Revisits Miranda

To amend title 18, United States Code, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice to protect unborn children from assault and murder, and for other purposes.

Shown below is the complete text of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, HR 2436, in the form passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on September 30, 1999. The Senate will take up the bill next year. 106th CONGRESS 1st SESSION H. R. 2436 AN ACT