Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)

Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legal/us/code/title-16/chapter-62/section-4242.md

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+---
+type: "LegalText"
+title: "16 U.S.C. § 4242"
+description: "Certification under Pelly amendment"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 16
+title_name: "CONSERVATION"
+chapter_number: "62"
+chapter_name: "AFRICAN ELEPHANT CONSERVATION"
+section: "4242"
+citation: "16 U.S.C. § 4242"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc16@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s4242"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-16/usc16.xml"
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+text_hash: "caadbbc35c2a8e6a3b862a973412c4c3360d955746ea6259a9bcd9230a8777a8"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 16 U.S.C. § 4242 - Certification under Pelly amendment
+
+## Text
+
+If the Secretary finds in administering this chapter that a country does not adhere to the CITES Ivory Control System, that country is deemed, for purposes of section 1978(a)(2) of title 22, to be diminishing the effectiveness of an international program for endangered or threatened species.
+
+(Pub. L. 100–478, title II, § 2303, Oct. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 2322.)