How are USC titles enacted into positive law?
The congressional Office of Law Revision Counsel studies eachtitle, comparing it with the underlying public laws and rewordingand rearranging it to reflect the meaning of the originalenactments. When completely revised, the title is itself enactedby Congress as a public law, and all the prior statutes, from whichit was derived, are repealed. (Table I of the USC tables volumegives cross references from old section numbers to new forreenacted titles.) Thereafter the title itself is positive law andcan be cited directly in court. If Congress subsequently amendssections in the title, it does so by reference directly to the USCitself.
