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Comment by liscovich

13 years ago

According to Wikipedia:

"When sections are repealed, their text is deleted and replaced by a note summarizing what used to be there." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Code#Treatment_o...

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at-fates-hands  13 years ago

Imagine trying to keep track of this in paper form instead of digitally.

  • officemonkey  13 years ago

    Imagine? I used to do it. When I first started out, I would get stacks of the Chicago Municipal Code revisions on onionskin and it was my job to follow the instructions to update the five-inch binder.

    "Remove pages 123.4 - 123.6 and replace with pages 123.4a-123.7."

    Later, when I learned about diffs, I understood the concept immediately.