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arrangement of the laws in the exact order that they have been enacted. Every six years, public laws are incorporated into the United States Code , which is a codification of all general and permanent laws of the United States. A supplement to the United States Code is published during each interim year until the next comprehensive volume is published. The U.S. Code is arranged by subject matter, and it shows the present status of laws with amendments already incorporated in the text that have been amended on one or more occasions. It is maintained as a separate collection. Public and Private Laws Side Notes The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) prepares each law for publication as a slip law (an individual pamphlet print) and then compiles, indexes, and publishes them in the United States Statutes at Large (a permanent bound volume of the laws for each session of Congress). Slip laws are presented exactly as they appear in the official printed version. Therefore, all side notes appear in the margins in their original format. Side notes are displayed in different ways in ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Public and private laws contain the following information in either the header or side notes:

• Public law number • Date of enactment • Bill number

• Popular name of the law • Statutes at Large citation • U.S. Code citation • Legislative history (Public laws only)

Example ASCII text: Side notes appear in double angle brackets within the body of the text. For example: In the printed version and ASCII text file of Public Law 106-1, "To restore the management and personnel authority of the Mayor of the District of Columbia," the short title appears as "<>" immediately following the clause that begins with "Be it enacted."