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Citation rules/Statutes/12.4 Session Laws

Remove the duplicate year parenthetical

Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

Where the act's name or the title of the session laws already gives the year of enactment, the year parenthetical is dropped.1

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  1. 1R. 12.4(e) Year or date; B12.1.1 Federal Statutes.
  2. 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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  1. Add the page of the cited section
  2. Add the page the act begins on
  3. Add the public law or chapter number
  4. Add the volume number or the year
  5. Add the year the act passed
  6. Remove the duplicate year parenthetical
  7. Remove the year parenthetical
  8. Set the session laws’ name in roman type
  9. Use “ch.” for the chapter designator

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More in 12.4 Session Laws

  1. Add the page of the cited section
  2. Add the page the act begins on
  3. Add the public law or chapter number
  4. Add the volume number or the year
  5. Add the year the act passed
  6. Remove the duplicate year parenthetical
  7. Remove the year parenthetical
  8. Set the session laws’ name in roman type
  9. Use “ch.” for the chapter designator

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