---
kind: "section"
citation: "1 U.S.C. § 104"
title: "1"
title_heading: "General Provisions"
number: "104"
heading: "Numbering of sections; single proposition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/1/104"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Acts and Resolutions; Formalities of Enactment; Repeals; Sealing of Instruments"
---

# §104. Numbering of sections; single proposition


Each section shall be numbered, and shall contain, as nearly as may be, a single proposition of enactment.


## Source credit

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