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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superseded provisions contained therein.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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