Use the act's full date of enactment
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
An act with no official or popular name is identified by its full date of enactment, in the form “Act of Aug. 21, 1974”.1
- 1R. 12.4(a) Name.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
More in 12.4 Session Laws
- Add the page of the cited section
- Add the page the act begins on
- Add the public law or chapter number
- Add the volume number or the year
- Add the year the act passed
- Remove the duplicate year parenthetical
- Remove the year parenthetical
- Set the session laws’ name in roman type
- Use the act's full date of enactment