most recent 30 from law.stackexchange.com 2025-08-08T03:22:10Z https://law.stackexchange.com/feeds/question/110371 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/rdf https://law.stackexchange.com/q/110371 0 Naftali Tzvi https://law.stackexchange.com/users/31047 2025-08-08T03:15:57Z 2025-08-08T14:08:11Z

<p>The eCFR (online version of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations) sometimes includes illustrations such as charts, diagrams, or sample forms. Are these non-text contents actually part of the CFR?</p> <p><a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-12/chapter-X/part-1016/appendix-Appendix%20to%20Part%201016" rel="nofollow noreferrer">example</a></p> <p>Edit: another nifty example: this swimming pool slide depiction at 16 CFR § 1207.5(d)(2)(i)</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/iVbptYaj.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/iVbptYaj.png" alt="pool ladder depiction" /></a></p>

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/110371/-/110372#110372 5 Jen https://law.stackexchange.com/users/46948 2025-08-08T03:40:58Z 2025-08-08T04:57:22Z

<p>Yes.</p> <p>You can view the <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2024-title12-vol8/pdf/CFR-2024-title12-vol8-part1016.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PDF of the print version</a> of your example Appendix to Part 1016. The figure you link to is found at p. 565 of 12 CFR Ch. X.</p> <p>And you can also find the same figure in the original publication in the <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-08-08/pdf/2011-31729.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Federal Register: Vol. 76, No. 245 (21 December 2011), p. 79042</a>.</p> <p>Or for the slide image, see <a href="https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1976/1/19/2724-2761.pdf#page=28" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Federal Register, Vol. 41, No. 12 (19 January 1976)</a>:</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/JfW4vIr2.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/JfW4vIr2.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p> <hr /> <p>See also: see <a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/q/76525/46948">Can bills (the documents of laws/legislation) have pictures? Or text only? Can images become part of the legal code?</a></p>

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/110371/-/110374#110374 0 Naftali Tzvi https://law.stackexchange.com/users/31047 2025-08-08T06:28:37Z 2025-08-08T14:08:11Z

<p>Yes, these images are part of the Code of Federal Regulations. They appear in the print version. (Jen helpfully provides a link to this.)</p> <p>&quot;Forms and illustrations&quot; are submitted for publication in the Federal Register by including with the document &quot;a clear and legible original form or illustration, or a clear and completely legible reproduction approximately 8 1/2 by 11 inches&quot;. 1 CFR § 18.10. This would include documents submitted for inclusion in the Code of Federal Regulations pursuant to 1 CFR § 21.1.</p> <p><strong>However,</strong> these diagrams do not have the same legal weight as the <em>text</em> of the CFR does. 44 USC § 1510(e) provides:</p> <blockquote> <p>The codified documents of the several agencies published in the Code of Federal Regulations under this section, as amended by documents subsequently filed with the Office and published in the daily issues of the Federal Register, shall be prima facie evidence of the <strong>text</strong> of the documents and of the fact that they are in effect on and after the date of publication. (emphasis added)</p> </blockquote> <p>Therefore, images and diagrams <em>are</em> a part of the CFR and are included in the print editions, but unlike the text they arguably <em>do not</em> constitute prima facie evidence of the law.</p>

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