Selected Statutes
Referenced in the Text
The following Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) will take you to some of the significant statutes and other laws or policies discussed in the text. The URLs are accompanied by instructions on how to access certain statutory sections or pages within a Web site once you have accessed the site.
5 U.S.C. Sections 551--706.
http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode05/usc_sup_01_5_10_I_30_5.html
The text of the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 can be accessed on the Web site maintained by the Legal Information Institute, which is part of Cornell Law School.
UCC
2–101 through 2–725.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/overview.html
The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University offers this hypertext publication of Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). You can access the UCC by parts (Part 1 through Part 7) or scroll down the page to find specific UCC sections (such as “2–201”). You can also perform a “Full Text Search” of the entire UCC. To locate an individual state’s version of the UCC, click on the link that appears after the clause “For Article 2 as enacted by a particular state and any proposed revisions” and follow the links to the desired state.
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U.S.C. Sections 12–27.
http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.php
In the “Title” box, type “15,” and in the “Section” box, type a relevant section number (such as, for example, “12”). Click on “Search.” In the list of “documents found,” click on the citation with the appropriate title (such as, in this example, “Sec. 12. Definitions; short title”) to access the text of the statute.
Preamble
through Article VII, and the amendments.
http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconst.html
Emory University’s School of Law provides an online version of the United States Constitution, indexed by article, at this Web site. You can also access the Bill of Rights and other amendments to the U.S. Constitution by selecting the appropriate link.
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U.S.C. Sections 1201–1205, 1301–1332.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281.ENR
This is a page within the THOMAS Web site, which the U.S. Library of Congress maintains. It contains links to every section of the final version of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as passed by the legislature.
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U.S.C. Sections 7001–7006.
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes
This is a page within the FindLaw Web site, which is now part of West Group. In the “Title” box, type “15,” and in the “Section” box, type a relevant section number (such as “7001”). Click on “Search.” The text of the statute will appear on the resulting page. At the bottom of the page you will find links to “Notes” on each code section and “Next,” which will take you to the next section in the statute.
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U.S.C. Sections 1–15.
http://www.chamber.se/arbitration/shared_files/laws/arbitract_us_cont.html
This URL takes you to a hyperlinked version of the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925, as amended. Scroll through the table of contents and click on the specific chapter to access the text of the statute.
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U.S.C. Sections 41–58.
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/ftca.htm
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration posts the full text of the Federal Trade Commission Act at this Web site.
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U.S.C. Sections 78dd-1 through 78dd-3.
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa
Click on “Statute” to access the text of the act. The U.S. Department of Justice maintains this Web site, which also provides information on statute’s legislative history, amendments, and related regulations.
UDRP
Paragraphs 1–9.
http://www.icann.org/dndr/udrp/policy.htm
This is a page within the Web site of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
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U.S.C. Sections 1961–1968.
http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.php
In the “Title” box, type “18,” and in the “Section” box, type a relevant section number (such as, for example, “1961”). In the list of “documents found,” click on the citation to access the text of the statute.
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U.S.C. Sections 77a–77aa.
http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/33Act/index.html
The University of Cincinnati College of Law provides a hyperlinked version of the Securities Act of 1933 at this Web site. Click on the specific section number on the table of contents to access the text.
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U.S.C. Sections 78a–78mm.
http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode15/usc_sup_01_15_10_2B.html
Cornell University’s Legal Information Institute provides a hyperlinked version of the statute at this Web site. Click on the specific section number on the table of contents to access the text.
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U.S.C. Sections 1–7.
http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.php
In the “Title” box, type “15,” and in the “Section” box, type a relevant section number (such as, for example, “15”). Click on “Search.” In the list of “documents found,” scroll to the citation with the appropriate title (such as, in this example, “Sec. 15. Suites by persons injured”). Click on the citation to access the text of the statute.
42 U.S.C. Sections 12101–12213.
http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/ada.html
You can find Titles I and V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Web site.
http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/ulpa/final2001.htm#TOC1_47
http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/fnact99/1990s/ullca96.htm
You can find the complete text of the Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (ULLCA) at the University of Pennsylvania’s Web site.
42 U.S.C. Section 2000e.
http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/vii.html
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Web site features the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on its Web site.
UETA
1–21.
http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/fnact99/1990s/ueta99.htm
This is a page within the Web site of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, which provides drafts of uniform and model acts in association with the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
CISG
Articles 1–101.
To access the text of the treaty, click on “Annotated text of the CISG” and select the article number that you wish to view from the resulting list. Pace University School of law maintains this Web site.