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Title 1 — General Provisions

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

§ 103. Enacting or resolving words after first section

Statutory text

No enacting or resolving words shall be used in any section of an Act or resolution of Congress except in the first.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. 1 U. S. C., § —

    Pub. L. 80–388 · 61 Stat. 633

    Enacted · 1 U.S.C. § 103

    (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)

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Credits

(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)

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