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Code of Federal Regulations

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The Code of Federal Regulations stores rules of law made by the executive branch of the United States federal government that people have to follow. The rules of law are mostly stored in books. It is run by the National Archives and Records Administration. They also run the Federal Register, which stores ideas for new rules of law. The Code of Federal Regulations is part of the Federal Register.[1][2] It is the United States' kind of administrative law,[3] and is published by the Government Publishing Office.[4]

The initialism for the Code of Federal Regulations is CFR.

The titles are where each executive department stores their laws. There are 50 of them, shown below:

  • Title 1: General Provisions
  • Title 2: Grants and Agreements
  • Title 3: The President
  • Title 4: Accounts
  • Title 5: Administrative Personnel
  • Title 6: Domestic Security
  • Title 7: Agriculture
  • Title 8: Aliens and Nationality
  • Title 9: Animals and Animal Products
  • Title 10: Energy
  • Title 11: Federal Elections
  • Title 12: Banks and Banking
  • Title 13: Business Credit and Assistance
  • Title 14: Aeronautics and Space (also known as the Federal Aviation Regulations)
  • Title 15: Commerce and Foreign Trade
  • Title 16: Commercial Practices
  • Title 17: Commodity and Securities Exchanges
  • Title 18: Conservation of Power and Water Resources
  • Title 19: Customs Duties
  • Title 20: Employees' Benefits
  • Title 21: Food and Drugs
  • Title 22: Foreign Relations
  • Title 23: Highways
  • Title 24: Housing and Urban Development
  • Title 25: Indians
  • Title 26: Internal Revenue (also known as the Treasury Regulations)
  • Title 27: Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms
  • Title 28: Judicial Administration
  • Title 29: Labor
  • Title 30: Mineral Resources
  • Title 31: Money and Finance: Treasury
  • Title 32: National Defense
  • Title 33: Navigation and Navigable Waters
  • Title 34: Education
  • Title 35: Reserved (formerly Panama Canal)
  • Title 36: Parks, Forests, and Public Property
  • Title 37: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
  • Title 38: Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief
  • Title 39: Postal Service
  • Title 40: Protection of Environment
  • Title 41: Public Contracts and Property Management
  • Title 42: Public Health
  • Title 43: Public Lands: Interior
  • Title 44: Emergency Management and Assistance
  • Title 45: Public Welfare
  • Title 46: Shipping
  • Title 47: Telecommunication
  • Title 48: Federal Acquisition Regulations System
  • Title 49: Transportation
  • Title 50: Wildlife and Fisheries
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References

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  1. 44 U.S.C. § 1505
  2. "About the Code of Federal Regulations". National Archives. 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  3. "Federal Administrative Law". Duke University School of Law. Retrieved March 10, 2014.. A summary of the statutes, regulations, and executive orders that govern rulemaking may be found at David E. Boundy, The PTAB is Not an Article III Court, Part 1: A Primer on Federal Agency Rulemaking, American Bar Ass’n, Landslide, vol. 10 no. 2 pp. 9–13 (Nov-Dec 2017) here or here
  4. "Browse Code of Federal Regulations (Annual Edition)". FDsys. US Government Publishing Office Federal Digital System. Retrieved 2014-05-23.

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