Editing Code of Federal Regulations (section)

==Publication procedure==
The rules and regulations are first promulgated or published in the ''Federal Register''. The CFR is structured into 50 subject matter titles.  Agencies are assigned chapters within these titles.  The titles are broken down into chapters, parts, sections and paragraphs.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = eCFR – Code of Federal Regulations
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| access-date = 2014-05-23
| date = 2014-05-21
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}}</ref> For example, 42 C.F.R. § 260.11(a)(1) would indicate "title 42, part 260, section 11, paragraph (a)(1)." Conversationally, it would be read as "forty-two C F R two-sixty point eleven a one" or similar.

While new regulations are continually becoming effective, the printed volumes of the CFR are issued once each calendar year, on this schedule:

*Titles 1–16 are updated as of January 1
*Titles 17–27 are updated as of April 1
*Titles 28–41 are updated as of July 1
*Titles 42–50 are updated as of October 1

The Office of the Federal Register also keeps an unofficial, online version of the CFR, the e-CFR, which is normally updated within two days after changes that have been published in the ''Federal Register'' become effective.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Electronic Code of Federal Regulations|publisher=[[Office of the Federal Register]]|url=http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/ECFR?page=userinfo|access-date=March 10, 2014}}</ref> The Parallel Table of Authorities and Rules lists rulemaking authority for regulations codified in the CFR.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About Code of Federal Regulations|publisher=[[Government Publishing Office]]|url=http://www.gpo.gov/help/about_code_of_federal_regulations.htm|access-date=March 10, 2014}}</ref>