How To Read Sections Of Law

Acts sometimes repeal other acts or certain provisions of acts.

How to read sections of law. For example if you want to find out the city s law on a dog barking at night type statute dog bark and then your city. Look for a definitions section if present it is usually found at the beginning of a chapter or subchapter and read it. Often one title will span several volumes.

Open a web browser and type in statute and then the subject matter you are looking for. There are three types of procedural provisions. Repealers work by citing the portion of law to be repealed and may appear as an entire bill section or as a subsection within a bill section.

Now that you have identified the appropriate title and section number you are ready to locate the code in the law library. For example 13 21 would be read as sections 13 through 21 much as pp. To find them you should perform a basic web search.

Read the direct words of law. Bills also can amend the law by repealing existing provisions. Legal information institute cornell law school offers the full text of the following.

Electronic sources for the federal code heinonline contains the u s. When duplicated as it is read as the plural sections. If you still don t understand it go for commentary.

The symbol stands for the word section. If you don t understand it read the illustrations then go for explanation. The section number follows the code abbreviation in your cite.