AGLC4 Rule 25.2.2: Title, Chapter or Volume Number in Code

Where a code is divided into titles, chapters or volumes with their own section numbering, the division number must be given; where sections run through the whole code it is omitted. For the USC and the unofficial federal codes the title number precedes the code abbreviation. State codes place the division number as the code itself does, usually after the code name within a decimal pinpoint, sometimes before the code name.

AGLC4 page 273

Formatting

  • Federal codes: the title number, a space, then the code abbreviation (for example 42 USC).
  • State codes follow the code's own numbering, including decimal, hyphenated, slashed and chapter plus section forms.
  • Chapter is abbreviated ch, roman, with no full stop, and may be followed by a section symbol and number.
  • Where the chapter is part of a decimal section number it is not moved in front of the code name.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 273
  1. 36
    5 USC § 6 (1958).
  2. 37
    Wis Stat § 944.21(2)(c) (2005). [Not: 944 Wis Stat § 21(2)(c) (2005).]
  3. 38
    Mass Gen Laws ch 33 § 4 (2016).
  4. 39
    735 Ill Comp Stat 5/2-201 (2009).
  5. 40
    11 Del Code Ann § 464 (2010).

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 273
  • 944 Wis Stat § 21(2)(c) (2005).
    in a decimal code the chapter stays part of the pinpoint after the code name

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 273
  • § 63.155
  • 1 Pa Con Stat § 1991

See also

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Formats, examples, passages, tables and the forms marked Not are quoted from the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2018), with the page of the Guide they appear on. Titles, summaries and explanations are our own.