General Help

Left Navigation Menu

The left navigation menu contains links to the various areas of the Web site. The links are organized into the following groups:

Laws – collections of federal Acts, regulations and other legal documents
Search – see search help page
Resources – helpful links to research tools and related Web sites
Help – information to assist in using the Web site

Views
There are several different ways to view the data collections (ie. the Acts, regulations and annual statutes).

Table of contents

• When navigating to an Act or regulation, you will be taken to its Table of Contents page. This page includes current-to information, a list of headings, links to "Amendments Not in force" and "Related Provisions" and, in Acts, links to the related regulations. From this page you can select the "Frames View" option or you can select a link below the "Table of contents" heading and be taken into Document View

Document View

• This is the main view of the collections. The documents are broken down into smaller segments (based on top-level headings, such as Parts). At the top and bottom of each segment, there is a drop-down menu that allows you to move to different segments.

Frames View

• This view allows you to see the content of the document with its table of contents. You can move through the document by selecting a heading in the table of contents. The information under that heading will be displayed in the content area.

Print Version

• This view removes the menus and web-specific items from the page for the purpose of printing a hard copy. Using the Print Version button in Document View or Frames View will open the document in Print Version view. Also, in the header at the top of each page there is an option to open the full document in Print View. Use this for printing the entire document.