§ 285b. — Functions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC285b]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 9A--OFFICE OF LAW REVISION COUNSEL
Sec. 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superseded provisions contained therein.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.
(Pub. L. 93-554, title I, ch. III, Sec. 101, Dec. 27, 1974, 88 Stat.
1777; Pub. L. 94-386, Sec. 1, Aug. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1170.)
Codification
Section is based on section 205(c) of House Resolution No. 988,
Ninety-third Congress, Oct. 8, 1974, which was enacted into permanent
law by Pub. L. 93-554.
Amendments
1976--Par. (6). Pub. L. 94-386 substituted ``through publication of
the fifth annual cumulative supplement to the 1973 edition of such
Code'' for ``until such time as the District of Columbia Self-Government
and Governmental Reorganization Act becomes effective''.
Preparation and Publication of New Edition of the District of Columbia
Code Under Direction of Council of the District of Columbia
Section 2 of Pub. L. 94-386 provided that:
``(a) After publication by the Law Revision Counsel of the fifth
annual cumulative supplement to the 1973 edition of the District of
Columbia Code, new editions of the District of Columbia Code (and annual
cumulative supplements thereto) shall be prepared and published under
the direction of the Council of the District of Columbia and shall set
forth the general and permanent laws relating to or in force in the
District of Columbia, whether enacted by the Congress or by the Council
of the District of Columbia, except such laws as are of application in
the District of Columbia by reason of being laws of the United States
general and permanent in nature.
``(b) After completion of the printing of the fifth annual
cumulative supplement to the 1973 edition of the District of Columbia
Code, the Public Printer shall, as the Council of the District of
Columbia may request, either--
``(1) furnish to the Council of the District of Columbia, on
such terms as the Public Printer (in consultation with the Joint
Committee on Printing) deems appropriate, the type used in preparing
the 1973 edition of the District of Columbia Code and the fifth
annual cumulative supplement to such edition; or
``(2) make such arrangements with the Council of the District of
Columbia as the Public Printer (in consultation with the Joint
Committee on Printing) deems appropriate for the printing by the
Government Printing Office of future editions of the District of
Columbia Code, and annual cumulative supplements thereto, prepared
under the direction of the Council of the District of Columbia.''
