United States Code

Need to search the U.S. Code? Don't have several hundred dollars laying around for the benefit of Westlaw or LexisNexis to search USCA or USCS? While the USCA and USCS are more current and annotated, online access to them can be prohibitively expensive. If you simply need a U.S. statute, try one of these options:

• U.S. Code (PDF version) -- Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives
  
  You can browse, search by citation, and search by keyword. Additionally there are options to limit your keyword search to specific sections of the Code, use advanced searching options (concept, relate, fuzzy, dictionary), and perform cross reference searches. If you prefer, you can download the U.S. Code in PDF format (though be aware, the files are large).



• U.S. Code -- Legal Information Institute
  
  The Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute has also made available the U. S. Code. The search options are typical: browse and search by citation or keyword. LII is unique, though, in that they provide a browsable Table of Popular Names and format the text. The advantage of LII is their presentation. It is the easiest-to-read online version of the Code.



• U.S. Code -- GPO Access
  
  The Government Printing Office provides the print version of the U.S. Code, which remains the official version (for you legal types.) GPO Access is yet another option for retrieving a U.S. statute. You can learn more about the contents of the printed version of the Code at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/about.html.