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margin-bottom: 1em;"> To provide more uniformity in appearance throughout the U.S Code, the style of headings <em>within sections</em> in non-positive law titles will be converted to that used <em>within sections</em> in positive law titles. This is a change in style only. No changes to the content of the headings are occurring. After this conversion, not only will the style of non-positive and positive law headings be uniform, they will also be consistent with the style used in legislative drafting. As a result, headings within non-positive law sections of the Code will more closely resemble the headings from the enacting public laws. The scope of this action is limited to headings for items smaller than (contained within) a section of the U.S. Code </p> <p class='sitechangetext4' style="text-indent: 0; margin-bottom: 1em;"> <strong>Please review the information <a href="./editorialheadingstylechange.html">here</a> for additional details.</strong> </p> </div> <br/> <div class='sitechangeUSLMv2' style="border-top: 1px solid blue"> <h2 class='pagehead'><em>Move from USLM 1.x to USLM 2.x</em></h2> <p class='sitechangetext1' style="text-indent: 0; margin-bottom: 1em;"> The Office of the Law Revision Counsel has made XML available in the USLM format based on the USLM "version 1" since July 2013. 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