Template:USStatute/doc

Usage

({{USStatute|Congress|OrdinalLaw|Volume|Page|Year|Month|Day|BillType|BillNumber}})

or

({{USStatute | 1=Congress | 2=OrdinalLaw | (3=Volume) | (4=Page) | (5=Year) | (6=Month) | (7=Day) | (8=BillType) | (9=BillNumber)}})

Public Law

1 = Congress

2 = Ordinal law

U.S. Statutes at large, optional

3 = Volume

4 = Page

Enactment date, optional

5 = Year, must be four-digit, YYYY

6 = Month, must be two-digit, MM, with leading zero if <10

7 = Day, must be two-digit, DD, with leading zero if <10

Bill, optional

8 = Bill type

9 = Bill number

This template uses Template:Tl, Template:Tl, and Template:Tl along with the date and bill type.

Bill types are documented at Template:USBill/doc#Parameters.

This template links to external sites. External links should not normally be used in the body of an article; see Wikipedia:External links for editing guidelines covering acceptable and unacceptable uses. In particular, notice the "exemption clause" that allows this template, along with its external links, to be used in an article's body.

Examples

• You enter: The '''NASA Flexibility Act of 2004''' ({{USStatute|108|201|118|461|2004|02|24}}) was passed...
  
• Template returns:The NASA Flexibility Act of 2004 (Pub. L. Template:Trim/public/Template:Trim?link-type=html Template:Trim–Template:Trim (text) Template:Trim/public/Template:Trim?link-type=pdf&.pdf (PDF), 118 Stat. 461, enacted Template:Dts) was passed...

List of all United States legal citation templates

These templates are for citing U.S. codes and laws. To cite court cases, use Template:Tl, or, for the U.S. Supreme Court, use Template:Tl.

Parameters in (parentheses) are optional.

Template(s)	Parameter(s)					Description
	1	2	3	4	pipe
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Title	Section	(end of section range)		(pipe)	United States Code (USC) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Title	Section	Description			USC via Cornell: description of the section
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Title	Section			(pipe)	USC via Cornell: when citing one of a series of USC sections, where it would be redundant to display the full citation for each section, this template can be used to display only the section number.
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Title	Section	Up to 6 levels of "sub"			Access to subsection/paragraph/subparagraph/clause/... to allow correct hyperlinking to the anchors embedded in the Cornell pages.
Template:Tl	Title	Section	Up to 6 levels of "sub"			Combines Template:Tl and Template:Tl, eliminating redundancy when citing subsections / subparagraphs / &c.
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Title	Section	Clause			USC via Cornell: allows clauses
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Title	Chapter	(Subchapter)		(pipe)	USC via Cornell: title/chapter links.
Template:Tl	Section					Internal Revenue Code Template:Tl
Template:Tl	Volume	Page				Statutes at Large via the Library of Congress, the Government Publishing Office, or Google Books
Template:Tl	Congress	Ordinal law	(Description)			Public Law via GPO govinfo and https://uslaw.link/
Template:Tl	Congress	Ordinal law	(Volume)	(Page)		Combines Template:Tl and Template:Tl, optional Year ({{{5}}}), Month ({{{6}}}), Day ({{{7}}}), optional Template:Tl: (Bill type ({{{8}}}) and number ({{{9}}}))
Template:Tl	Congress	Bill type (S, SJ, HR, HJ)	Bill number (1-?)		(pipe)	Congressional bills via Congress.gov
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Year	Vote				House roll-call vote via Clerk.House.gov
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Congress	Session	Vote			Senate roll-call vote via Senate.gov
Template:Tl	Year	Page	(date)			Congressional Record via GPO FDsys
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Volume	Page				Federal Register via GPO FDsys
Template:Tl, Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Volume	Part	Section	(Clause)		Code of Federal Regulations via GPO FDsys
Template:Tl	Number					Executive orders via Wikisource
Template:Tl	Congress	Treaty number				Treaties
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	ChapterSection	Up to 7 levels of "sub"		(year)		Latest U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines (effective Nov. 1, 2012) via the U.S. Sentencing Commission website. Optional |year= references specific Guidelines applicable to a sentence imposed on or after Nov. 1st of that given year.
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Chapter					Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (current) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Rule					Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (current) via federalrulesofcivilprocedure.org
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Rule					Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure (current) via federalrulesofbankruptcyprocedure.org
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Chapter					Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (current) via Cornell University's Legal Information Institute
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Rule					Federal Rules of Evidence (current) via rulesofevidence.org
Template(s)	1	2	3	4	pipe	Description
	Parameter(s)