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title: "2 U.S.C. § 281"
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title_number: 2
title_name: "THE CONGRESS"
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chapter_name: "OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL"
section: "281"
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# 2 U.S.C. § 281 - Establishment
## Text
There is established in the House of Representatives an office to be known as the Office of the Legislative Counsel, referred to hereinafter in this subchapter as the “Office”.
(Pub. L. 91510, title V, § 501, Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 1201.)
## Notes
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective DateSubchapter effective Oct. 26, 1970, see section 601(5) of Pub. L. 91510, set out as an Effective Date of 1970 Amendment note under section 4301 of this title.
Transfer of Functions; Nonapplicability of Sections 271 to 277 to the House Pub. L. 91510, title V, § 531, Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 1203, provided that anyone serving as Legislative Counsel on Oct. 26, 1970 would continue as Legislative Counsel in accordance with this subchapter, and that all personnel, positions, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations of or for that part of the Office of the Legislative Counsel established under sections 271 to 277 of this title employed or held in or for the House of Representatives would be transferred to the Office established under this subchapter and, effective Oct. 26, 1970, those sections were without further appicability.