---
kind: "section"
citation: "1 U.S.C. § 103"
title: "1"
title_heading: "General Provisions"
number: "103"
heading: "Enacting or resolving words after first section"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/1/103"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Acts and Resolutions; Formalities of Enactment; Repeals; Sealing of Instruments"
---

# §103. Enacting or resolving words after first section


No enacting or resolving words shall be used in any section of an Act or resolution of Congress except in the first.


## Source credit

(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 634.)