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-38/chapter-37/section-3746.md

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+---
+type: "LegalText"
+title: "38 U.S.C. § 3746"
+description: "Maturity of loans"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 38
+title_name: "VETERANS’ BENEFITS"
+chapter_number: "37"
+chapter_name: "HOUSING AND SMALL BUSINESS LOANS"
+section: "3746"
+citation: "38 U.S.C. § 3746"
+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_usc38@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t38/s3746"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-38/usc38.xml"
+source_hash: "d8708c04b61ce10fde2ac9e5a02969bfafc8ed2d46fce053f0f2f656ac3c4711"
+raw_snapshot_hash: "372998691b72ade88787dfa7633dbda4954bd1b037ec7926c5e06e9b1d17fc66"
+text_hash: "c531849eac34659b3331dcb0220edc05ef11adbca6efad1a2efcae2586299866"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 38 U.S.C. § 3746 - Maturity of loans
+
+## Text
+
+The maturity of a loan made or guaranteed under this subchapter that is used in whole or in part for the construction, conversion, or expansion of facilities or for acquisition of real property may not exceed twenty years plus such additional reasonable time as the Secretary may determine, at the time the loan is made, is required to complete the construction, acquisition, or expansion of such facilities. The maturity of any other loan made or guaranteed under this subchapter may not exceed ten years.
+
+(Added Pub. L. 97–72, title III, § 302(a), Nov. 3, 1981, 95 Stat. 1058, § 1846; amended Pub. L. 101–237, title III, § 313(b)(1), Dec. 18, 1989, 103 Stat. 2077; renumbered § 3746, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+Amendments1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 1846 of this title as this section. 1989—Pub. L. 101–237 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator”.