Welcome to the United States Code

Welcome to the United States Code.

This version is generated from the most recent version made available by the US House of Representatives. For exact information about the currency of any particular title as it is published by the House, see the listing on the House server. The date of any text appearing on this site appears in italics at the upper right in every Code section.

As of this writing Titles 1-4 are the laws in force as of January 5, 1999. Titles 26-50 are the laws in force as of January 26, 1998. At this point we are not sure how often the House will issue new versions of this information to the public. Any new version issued by the House will in turn be mounted here within 24 hours. (This is not an absolute guarantee. From time to time, and without warning, the House makes changes in the format and structure of the text they make available for download. This can and does cause us to rewrite our own formatting software, hopefully with minimal delay.) In the meantime we suggest the use of the update feature available in each section.

Our convenient update service (available onscreen as you look at each section) integrates the services of the House servers and of the Library of Congress Thomas service to supply you with accurate updates to any section which has changed.

A listing of all Titles appears below.

Find US Code Materials by Title and Section

If you know the citation for the US Code material you want to find, fill in the title and section numbers below. (eg. 22 USC 1501 would be Title 22, Section 1501). You need to fill in both title and section.

Table of Contents (by-Title listing)

Title 1 General Provisions [Search]
Title 2 The Congress [Search]
Title 3 The President [Search]
Title 4 Flag and Seal, Seat Of Government, and the States [Search]
Title 5 Government Organization and Employees [Search]
Title 6 Surety Bonds (repealed) [Search]
Title 7 Agriculture [Search]
Title 8 Aliens and Nationality [Search]
Title 9 Arbitration [Search]
Title 10 Armed Forces [Search]
Title 11 Bankruptcy [Search]
Title 12 Banks and Banking [Search]
Title 13 Census [Search]
Title 14 Coast Guard [Search]
Title 15 Commerce and Trade [Search]
Title 16 Conservation [Search]
Title 17 Copyrights [Search]
Title 18 Crimes and Criminal Procedure [Search]
Title 19 Customs Duties [Search]
Title 20 Education [Search]
Title 21 Food and Drugs [Search]
Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse [Search]
Title 23 Highways [Search]
Title 24 Hospitals and Asylums [Search]
Title 25 Indians [Search]
Title 26 Internal Revenue Code [Search]
Title 27 Intoxicating Liquors [Search]
Title 28 Judiciary and Judicial Procedure [Search]
Title 29 Labor [Search]
Title 30 Mineral Lands and Mining [Search]
Title 31 Money and Finance [Search]
Title 32 National Guard [Search]
Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters [Search]
Title 34 Navy (repealed) [Search]
Title 35 Patents [Search]
Title 36 Patriotic Societies and Observances [Search]
Title 37 Pay and Allowances Of the Uniformed Services [Search]
Title 38 Veterans' Benefits [Search]
Title 39 Postal Service [Search]
Title 40 Public Buildings, Property, and Works [Search]
Title 41 Public Contracts [Search]
Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare [Search]
Title 43 Public Lands [Search]
Title 44 Public Printing and Documents [Search]
Title 45 Railroads [Search]
Title 46 Shipping [Search]
Title 47 Telegraphs, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs [Search]
Title 48 Territories and Insular Possessions [Search]
Title 49 Transportation [Search]
Title 50 War and National Defense [Search]

Listing of all Titles
Table of Popular Names containing the popular names of many laws (eg. the Mann Act)
via a form which permits you to look up specific sections. This is particularly useful if you have a cite (eg. 14 USC 1225)
via our search engine

Note that the United States Code is a VERY large document. It is much faster -- and kinder to other users of the system -- if you limit your text searches to a particular area (Title) of the Code. To do so, go first to the listing of all Titles and choose the Title you want; then, use the text-search link on the overview page for that Title to do your search.