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List of CFR Sections Affected (LSA): Search Tips
Sample Searches
| Identification Codes
The following sample searches are provided as guides to popular types
of searches in the LSA databases. They are performed in the 1998
LSA database. For the sake of space, only the top three or four hits in
each results list are included with each example below.
Note: Due to the cumulative nature of the LSA, your results
lists will return every monthly issue of the LSA subsequent to the one
in which your query terms first appear, up to the next revision date
of the appropriate title. Therefore, in order to find the most up-to-date
listing, you should select the returned document that has the most recent
date.
CFR Citation
| Subject
1. Search by CFR Citation
This type of search returns monthly issues from the LSA that contain
references to a section of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Within
your query, the title number should be in quotation marks, and the part
and section numbers should be connected by the ADJ boolean operator. (The
period that denotes the section in a CFR citation, such as 18 CFR 342.3,
may not be used in your query.)
| Query: |
"title 7" AND 210 ADJ 9 |
| Results: |
[1998_february_lsa] TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE |
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[1998_march_lsa] TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE |
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[1998_april_lsa] TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE |
2. Search by Subject
This type of search returns monthly issues from the LSA that contain
terms from the subject headings used to group LSA listings.
| Query: |
"executive orders" AND 13098 |
| Results: |
[1998_august_lsa] TITLE 3--THE PRESIDENT |
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[1998_september_lsa] TITLE 3--THE PRESIDENT |
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[1998_october_lsa] TITLE 3--THE PRESIDENT |
Note: Due to the fact that the LSA is an index, there are few
keywords to use when searching the database. If you are not satisfied
with your results from the search function, try using the browse function
for the most current issue of the LSA.
In the list that displays your query results, the title of each LSA document
is preceded by an identification code. The identification code contains
two elements: an issue date (year and month) and a database abbreviation.
For example, in the identification code "[1998_july_lsa]," "1998_july"
is the issue date, and "lsa" stands for the List of CFR Sections
Affected.
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