---
kind: "section"
citation: "1 C.F.R. § 21.16"
title: "1"
number: "21.16"
heading: "Required document headings."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/1/21.16"
---

# §21.16. Required document headings.

- (a) Each rule and proposed rule document submitted to the Office of the Federal Register shall contain the following headings, when appropriate, on separate lines in the following order:
  - (1) Agency name;
  - (2) Subagency name;
  - (3) Numerical references to the CFR title and parts affected;
  - (4) Agency numbers of identifying symbol in brackets, if used;
  - (5) **Brief subject heading describing the document.**
- (b) Each CFR section in the regulatory text of the document shall have a brief descriptive heading, preceding the text, on a separate line.

## Notes

### Amendments

[50 FR 12468, Mar. 28, 1985]

### Authority

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 1506; sec. 6, E.O. 10530, 19 FR 2709; 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 189.

### Source

Source: 37 FR 23611, Nov. 4, 1972, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[50 FR 12468, Mar. 28, 1985]