---
kind: "section"
citation: "1 U.S.C. § 2"
title: "1"
title_heading: "General Provisions"
number: "2"
heading: "“County” as including “parish”, and so forth"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/1/2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Rules of Construction"
---

# §2. “County” as including “parish”, and so forth


The word “county” includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States.


## Source credit

(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)