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-45/chapter-1/section-16.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "45 U.S.C. § 16"
+description: "Repealed. Pub. L. 103–272, § 7(b), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1379"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 45
+title_name: "RAILROADS"
+chapter_number: "1"
+chapter_name: "SAFETY APPLIANCES AND EQUIPMENT ON RAILROAD ENGINES AND CARS, AND PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES AND TRAVELERS"
+section: "16"
+citation: "45 U.S.C. § 16"
+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_usc45@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t45/s16"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-45/usc45.xml"
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+text_hash: "850d6ed24ef08762856d513cf703495143fa6744fd42dbfe3d15b9db080660e9"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 45 U.S.C. § 16 - Repealed. Pub. L. 103–272, § 7(b), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1379
+
+## Notes
+
+Section, acts Apr. 14, 1910, ch. 160, § 1, 36 Stat. 298; June 22, 1988, Pub. L. 100–342, § 13(3)(E), 102 Stat. 632, defined “railroad” as used in sections 1 to 16 of this title. See section 20102 of Title 49, Transportation.