U.S. Code Titles THE POLL

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Everybody loves to talk about their favorite Title of the U.S. Code at Thanksgiving. Now you will be able to tell your loved ones which Title is the most popular as proven by scientific method and the Internet working together. Note, I combined all the defense titles into one in order to fit into the poll options cap.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
TITLE 27 - INTOXICATING LIQUORS 6
TITLE 25 - INDIANS 4
TITLE 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS 3
TITLE 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE 2
TITLE 8 - ALIENS AND NATIONALITY 2
TITLE 12 - BANKS AND BANKING 1
TITLE 45 - RAILROADS 1
TITLE 13 - CENSUS 1
TITLE 40 - PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS 1
TITLE 11 - BANKRUPTCY 1
TITLE 24 - HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS 1
TITLE 47 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS 1
TITLE 54 - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND RELATED PROGRAMS 1
TITLE 36 - PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS 1
TITLE 39 - POSTAL SERVICE 1
TITLE 37 - PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES 0
TITLE 35 - PATENTS 0
TITLE 38 - VETERANS’ BENEFITS 0
TITLE 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS 0
TITLE 41 - PUBLIC CONTRACTS 0
TITLE 46 - SHIPPING 0
TITLE 52 - VOTING AND ELECTIONS 0
TITLE 51 - NATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL SPACE PROGRAMS 0
TITLE 49 - TRANSPORTATION 0
TITLE 48 - TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS 0
TITLE 7 - AGRICULTURE 0
TITLE 44 - PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS 0
TITLE 43 - PUBLIC LANDS 0
TITLE 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE 0
TITLE 31 - MONEY AND FINANCE 0
TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING 0
TITLE 14 - COAST GUARD 0
TITLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS 0
TITLE 10 - ARMED FORCES / TITLE 32 - NATIONAL GUARD / TITLE 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE 0
TITLE 9 - ARBITRATION 0
TITLE 6 - DOMESTIC SECURITY 0
TITLE 5 - GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES 0
TITLE 4 - FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES 0
TITLE 3 - THE PRESIDENT 0
TITLE 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE 0
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION 0
TITLE 29 - LABOR 0
TITLE 28 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE 0
TITLE 26 - INTERNAL REVENUE CODE 0
TITLE 23 - HIGHWAYS 0
TITLE 20 - EDUCATION 0
TITLE 19 - CUSTOMS DUTIES 0
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 0
TITLE 17 - COPYRIGHTS 0
TITLE 2 - THE CONGRESS 0


El Tomboto, Friday, 30 October 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link

Im a federal rules of civil procedure man myself..

panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 30 October 2015 17:25 (eight years ago) link

INDIANS

Aimless, Friday, 30 October 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link

this is a strong poll, very strong

j., Friday, 30 October 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link

I feel let down that my AP Government class syllabus wasn't organized this way.

El Tomboto, Friday, 30 October 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link

--->FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE

johnny crunch, Friday, 30 October 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link

insular possessions

= hoodie, earbuds, moleskine

j., Friday, 30 October 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link

I need to find out why it's only mostly alphabetical.

El Tomboto, Friday, 30 October 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link

good poll; not as good as WORLD WAR THREE tho

mookieproof, Friday, 30 October 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link

maybe 51 used to be U.R.A.N.U.S.

j., Friday, 30 October 2015 21:13 (eight years ago) link

34 is the u.s. code secret borad

phở intellectual (WilliamC), Friday, 30 October 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link

Food and drugs, a potent combination, I'll admit

a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 30 October 2015 23:48 (eight years ago) link

Oh man the WOPR poll. IIRC I had to actually hand-jam the options on that one. This was a much simpler C+(find and replace whitespace with less whitespace) P from Cornell's law school site

El Tomboto, Saturday, 31 October 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link

I, uh, wrote it down from the youtube clip.

time very well spent

mookieproof, Saturday, 31 October 2015 00:22 (eight years ago) link

Hence, VETERANS’ BENEFITS

El Tomboto, Saturday, 31 October 2015 01:27 (eight years ago) link

27

welltris (crüt), Saturday, 31 October 2015 01:44 (eight years ago) link

The obvious choice

El Tomboto, Saturday, 31 October 2015 04:25 (eight years ago) link

34 is the u.s. code secret borad

― phở intellectual (WilliamC), Friday, October 30, 2015 6:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Repealed.

Neb! (benbbag), Saturday, 31 October 2015 04:45 (eight years ago) link

Please Don't Feed The Troll

El Tomboto, Saturday, 31 October 2015 04:49 (eight years ago) link

TITLE 11 - BANKRUPTCY

^^^ this

Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 31 October 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link

I'm guessing title 38 used to start with "PAY AND ALLOWANCES" as well and that's why it is where it is in the order.

El Tomboto, Monday, 2 November 2015 19:33 (eight years ago) link

Oh wait nope it was "Title 38: Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief." mystery solved!

El Tomboto, Monday, 2 November 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link

you have TITLE 40 (PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS - where all the EPA stuff is stashed) to thank for the lack of poop in your drinking water

Karl Malone, Monday, 2 November 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link

I wonder if non-alphabetical entries mean those titles replaced defunct titles.

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 2 November 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link

Well, I mean, INTOXICATING LIQUORS.

Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Monday, 2 November 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link

TITLE 69 YOUR MOM

mattresslessness, Monday, 2 November 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link

That's when domestic security and arbitration come together

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 01:34 (eight years ago) link

Any GENERAL PROVISIONS fans in the house?

El Tomboto, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link

bump

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 04:12 (eight years ago) link

I am determined to have double digits in this poll god dammit
This is AMERICA

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 04:13 (eight years ago) link

In before system robot

El Tomboto, Monday, 23 November 2015 23:27 (eight years ago) link

INDIANS

brimstead, Monday, 23 November 2015 23:29 (eight years ago) link

40-44 split the "Haha it looks like pubic" vote

nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 23 November 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link

but seriously

INTOXICATING LIQUORS

nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 23 November 2015 23:41 (eight years ago) link

I was going to say

a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, 23 November 2015 23:44 (eight years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link

I also want to do a deeper dive on TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS to figure out wtf Guamanians can't even vote for presidetn.

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 00:41 (eight years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link

I see nobody here gives two shits about the brave patriots who volunteered to die for our great country

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link

Which of you pocket protector wearing geeks voted "TELECOMMUNICATIONS"

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link

don't look at me I voted for RAILROADS

pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link

two years pass...

https://legcounsel.house.gov/HOLC/Drafting_Legislation/Drafting_Guide.html#IIB

The easiest way to understand this distinction is to look at the purpose and history of the U.S. Code. The only organizing principle behind the slip laws, and thus the Statutes at Large, is chronology. This makes it very difficult to find the law on a particular topic using those sources. Beginning in 1926, the U.S. Code was published to organize the laws by subject matter and make them more accessible. The first editions of the Code were simply restatements of the laws being organized; they did not actually take the place of those laws. If there was a conflict between a Code provision and the underlying statutory provision, the statute controlled.

In 1947, Congress began the process of enacting titles of the Code into law and repealing the underlying statutes, a process that continues today. The provisions of a title so enacted become “positive” law, and the underlying statutory provisions can no longer be used to rebut them. One can quickly see the status of a title by looking at the first page after the title page of any volume of the Code or at the Search & Browse page on the Office of the Law Revision Counsel's website. Those titles marked with an asterisk have been enacted into positive law.

El Tomboto, Friday, 15 December 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link

Our Office generally tries to organize the content of a bill, and provisions within a bill, according to the template below. We do not always follow this template, but it is often our starting point when we think about how to put together a draft.

  • General rule: State the main message.
  • Exceptions: Describe the persons or things to which the main message does not apply.
  • Special rules: Describe the persons or things to which the main message applies in a different way or for which there is a different message.
  • Transitional rules.
  • Other provisions.
  • Definitions.
  • Effective date (if appropriate).
  • “Authorization of appropriations” provisions (if appropriate).

El Tomboto, Friday, 15 December 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link


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