Editing Codification (law) (section)

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In the United States, [[act of Congress|acts of Congress]], such as federal statutes, are published chronologically in the order in which they become law&nbsp;&ndash; often by being signed by the [[President of the United States|President]], on an individual basis in official pamphlets called "[[slip law]]s", and are grouped together in official bound book form, also chronologically, as "[[session law]]s". The "session law" publication for Federal statutes is called the [[United States Statutes at Large]]. A given act may be a single page or hundreds of pages in length. An act may be classified as either a "Public Law" or a "Private Law".

Because each Congressional act may contain laws on a variety of topics, many acts, or portions thereof, are also rearranged and published in a topical, subject matter codification by the [[Office of the Law Revision Counsel]]. The official codification of Federal statutes is called the [[United States Code]]. Generally, only "Public Laws" are codified. The United States Code is divided into "titles" (based on overall topics) numbered 1 through 54.<ref>[https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1068 Public Law No: 113-287,  To enact title 54, United States Code, "National Park Service and Related Programs", as positive law.]</ref> [[Title 18 of the United States Code|Title 18]], for example, contains many of the Federal criminal statutes. Title 26 is the [[Internal Revenue Code]].<ref>[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode USC table of contents]</ref>

Even in code form, however, many statutes by their nature pertain to more than one topic. For example, the statute making [[Tax avoidance and tax evasion|tax evasion]] a felony pertains to both criminal law and tax law, but is found only in the Internal Revenue Code.<ref>see [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7201- 26 USC 7201]</ref> Other statutes pertaining to taxation are found not in the Internal Revenue Code but instead, for example, in the Bankruptcy Code in [[Title 11 of the United States Code]], or the Judiciary Code in [[Title 28 of the United States Code|Title 28]]. Another example is the national minimum drinking age, not found in [[Title 27 of the United States Code|Title 27]], ''Intoxicating liquors'', but in [[Title 23 of the United States Code|Title 23]], ''Highways'', [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/23/158.html §158].

Further, portions of some Congressional acts, such as the provisions for the effective dates of amendments to codified laws, are themselves not codified at all. These statutes may be found by referring to the acts as published in "slip law" and "session law" form. However, commercial publications that specialize in legal materials often arrange and print the uncodified statutes with the codes to which they pertain.

In the United States, the individual states, either officially or through private commercial publishers, generally follow the same three-part model for the publication of their own statutes: slip law, session law, and codification.