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REGISTER

FEDERAL
VOLUME 2

1934

AflTEO

NUMBER 220

Washington, Friday, November 12, 1937
ADMINISTRATIVE
REGISTER.

COMMITTEE

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FEDERAL

R egulations for the C odification of E xecutive and A dministrative D ocuments
Issued by the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, with the Approval of the President, Pursuant to the Act of June 19, 1937, Public No. 158, 75th Congress
Part C. Style.
Sec. 18. Abbreviations.
Sec. 19. Style manual.
Sec. 20. Descriptions of tracts of land.
Chapter IV. Miscellaneous.
Sec. 21. Effective date of regulations.
Sec. 22. Official mail.
Sec. 23. Publication of regulations.
StatuteFederal Register Act, as amended.
RESOLUTION

T able
of
Contents
Resolution.
Title I. Codification of Executive and administrative documents.
Chapter I. Definitions.
Sec. 1.
Par. a. Act.
Par. b. Document.
Par. c. Agency or Federal Agency.
Par. d. Committee or Administrative Committee.
Par. e. Secretary.
Par. f. Board and Chairman.
Chapter U. Preparation, submission, and certification by agencies.
Part A. Contents of codification.
Sec. 2. Nature of the codification.
Sec. 3. Revisions.
Sec. 4. Completeness.
Sec. 5. Present general applicability and legal effect.
Par. a. Internal administration.
Par. b. Administrative decisions.
Par. c. Repealed or superseded matter.
Par. d. Documents referring to public lands.
Sec. 6. Other information to be Included.
Par. a. Authority on which based.
Par. b. Citation of sources.
Par. c. Explanatory material or references.
Par. d. Decisions and interpretations.
Part B. Liaison and cooperation with Board.
Sec. 7. Codification committees in agencies.
Sec. 8. Cooperation with Board.
Part C. Preliminary submission of codifications.
Sec. 9. Early submission of portions of codifications.
Sec. 10. Resubmission.

Part D. Transmission, certification, final submission.
Sec. 11. Preliminary or partial submissions.
Sec. 12. Final submission and certification.
Sec. 13, To whom submitted.
Chapter m . Form, style, and arrangement.
Part A. Physical format.
Sec. 14.
Par. a. Number of copies.
Par. b. Size of paper.
Par. c. Contents and numbering of pages.
Par. d. Typing.
Par. e. Illustrations and diagrams.
Part B. Arrangement.
Sec. 15. System of headings and numbers.
Par. a. Titles, chapters, etc.
Par. b. Headings of titles, chapters and parts.
Par. c. Headnotes to sections and paragraphs.
Sec. 16. Table of contents; indexing.
Sec. 17. Joint regulations.

Whereas, by the terms of the Act of June 19, 1937 Public No. 158, 75th Cong. a code of all executive and adm inistra tive documents, rules and orders of general applicability and legal effect, of each agency of the Federal government, is required to be prepared and subm itted to the President Sec. 11a and, thereafter, at his direction, to be published .nd to be prim a-facie evidence of the text of such documents and of tiie fact that they are in full force and effect Sec, 11c; in carrying out this purpose, the Congress has provided that each agency of the Government within the executive and adm inistrative branch is required to prepare and file with the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, not later than July 1, 1938, a complete codification of all such documents which are in force and effect and relied upon by the agency as authority for, or invoked or used by it in the discharge of, any of its functions or activities Sec. 11a; a Codification Board to supervise and coordinate the form, style, arrangement, and indexing of the codifications of the various agencies is established Sec. l i b ; and the Admin istrative Committee of the Federal Register is required to prescribe, with the approval of the President, regulations for carrying out these purposes and provisions Sec. l i d ;
And whereas, the Administrative Committee, after some months of careful study and deliberation upon the problem of carrying through a project of such extended scope and vital importance to both the federal executive and adm inistrative establishm ent and the public, agrees that the prompt, accurate, efficient, and adequate carrying out of the Act of Congress requires 1 an immediate and close liaison between the Codification Board and the several agencies, together with the prompt and energetic prosecu tion of the work by each agency; 2 the submission of completed units of the proposed codification of each agency from tim e to time prior to July 1, 1938; for criticism s, sug gestions, and fitting into the general code, subject, however, to the final approval, amendment, and certification of each code by the agency concerned not later than July 1, 1938, as provided in the act and the regulations which follow herein; 3 the exertion of every effort to assure that each of the several Federal agencies will submit creditable codifi cations so that no agency w ill suffer by comparison with the codifications of other agencies or be subject to legal 2849