Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 2 : Section 285b


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/3/05
Section 285b. Functions

      The functions of the Office shall be as follows:
        (1) To prepare, and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary
      one title at a time, a complete compilation, restatement, and
      revision of the general and permanent laws of the United States
      which conforms to the understood policy, intent, and purpose of
      the Congress in the original enactments, with such amendments and
      corrections as will remove ambiguities, contradictions, and other
      imperfections both of substance and of form, separately stated,
      with a view to the enactment of each title as positive law.
        (2) To examine periodically all of the public laws enacted by
      the Congress and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary
      recommendations for the repeal of obsolete, superfluous, and
      superseded provisions contained therein.
        (3) To prepare and publish periodically a new edition of the
      United States Code (including those titles which are not yet
      enacted into positive law as well as those titles which have been
      so enacted), with annual cumulative supplements reflecting newly
      enacted laws.
        (4) To classify newly enacted provisions of law to their proper
      positions in the Code where the titles involved have not yet been
      enacted into positive law.
        (5) To prepare and submit periodically such revisions in the
      titles of the Code which have been enacted into positive law as
      may be necessary to keep such titles current.
        (6) To prepare and publish periodically new editions of the
      District of Columbia Code, with annual cumulative supplements
      reflecting newly enacted laws, through publication of the fifth
      annual cumulative supplement to the 1973 edition of such Code.
        (7) To provide the Committee on the Judiciary with such advice
      and assistance as the committee may request in carrying out its
      functions with respect to the revision and codification of the
      Federal statutes.



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