Title 1 of the United States Code outlines the general provisions of the United States Code.^[1]

Chapter 1: Rules of Construction

• § 1 (Dictionary Act^[2]) – Words denoting number, gender, person, etc.
• § 2 – "County" as including "parish," etc.
• § 3 – "Vessel" as including all means of water transportation.
• § 4 – "Vehicle" as including all means of land transportation.
• § 5 – "Company" or "association" as including successors and assigns.
• § 6 – Limitation of term "products of American fisheries."
• § 7 – Definition of "marriage" and "spouse". (See Respect for Marriage Act)
• § 8 – "Person", "human being", "child", and "individual" as including born-alive infant. (See Born-Alive Infants Protection Act.)

Chapter 2: Acts and Resolutions; Formalities of Enactment; Repeals; Sealing of Instruments

• § 101 – Enacting clause.
• § 102 – Resolving clause.
• § 103 – Enacting or resolving words after first section.
• § 104 – Numbering of sections; single proposition.
• § 105 – Title of appropriation Acts.
• § 106 – Printing bills and joint resolutions.
• § 106a – Promulgation of laws.
• § 106b – Amendments to Constitution.
• § 107 – Parchment or paper for printing enrolled bills or resolutions.
• § 108 – Repeal of repealing act.
• § 109 – Repeal of statutes as affecting existing liabilities.
• § 110 – Saving clause of Revised Statutes.
• § 111 – Repeals as evidence of prior effectiveness.
• § 112 – Statutes at Large; contents; admissibility in evidence.
• § 112a – United States Treaties and Other International Agreements; contents; admissibility in evidence.
• § 112b – United States international agreements; transmission to the United States Congress.
• § 113 – "Little and Brown's" edition of laws and treaties; slip laws; Treaties and Other International Act 1 Series; admissibility in evidence.
• § 114 – Sealing of instruments.

Chapter 3: Code of Laws of the United States and Supplements; District of Columbia Code and Supplements

• § 201 – Publication and distribution of Code of Laws of United States and Supplements and District of Columbia Code and Supplements.
• § 202 – Preparation and publication of Codes and Supplements.
• § 203 – District of Columbia Code; preparation and publication; cumulative supplements.
• § 204 – Codes and Supplements as evidence of the laws of United States and District of Columbia; citation of Codes and Supplements.
• § 205 – Codes and Supplement; where printed; form and style; ancillaries.
• § 206 – Bills and resolutions of Committee on the Judiciary of House of Representatives; form and style; ancillaries; curtailment of copies.
• § 207 – Copies of acts and resolutions in slip form; additional number printed for Committee on the Judiciary of House of Representatives.
• § 208 – Delegation of function of Committee on the Judiciary to other agencies; printing, etc., under direction of Joint Committee on Printing.
• § 209 – Copies of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; conclusive evidence of original.
• § 210 – Distribution of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; slip and pamphlet copies.
• § 211 – Copies to Members of Congress.
• § 212 – Additional distribution at each new Congress.
• § 213 – Appropriation for preparing and editing supplements.

Title I was originally passed by the 80th Congress in 1947, along with titles 3, 4, 6, 9, & 17.^[3] Chapter 1 was influenced^[4] by the "Dictionary Act"^[5] passed in the 41st Congress.